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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
There are mortgage payment companies that take out part of the payment from your check every two weeks and then make one payment to your mortgage company. It works out to an extra payment a year which reduces the time on your mortgage without really ever realizing it. We used one before our last refinance and it worked out pretty well.
Our new mortgage is held by our regular bank so we don't use the service anymore.
Does it give you an address or any indication of the kind of court it is? As in, it says something about civil part, family part, anything like that? You're no longer exempt?It says literally "all courts in Queens." At least it's petit jury. And one of the courts is close! The last time I had jury duty was like seven years ago, so yeah.
Andy Dick lives up to his name. Glad I didn't run into him when he was in town.
This week has sucked ass. The office closed at 2, "if you have finished all your work", which is BS, because people had flights to catch and EVERYONE but 4-5 of us left by 2:30 regardless. I stayed because the office was quiet and no one was interrupting me.
All that resulted in was me finding a bunch of errors in peoples' work. GRRR.
My work gripe of the day is that a new editorial assistant gave me a bunch of files to combine late this afternoon (which is not part of my regular work responsibilities since I'm not officially working on the project), did not inform me it was urgent, skipped out of the office promptly at 5, and then after I'm the last one here I got a call from a more senior editor asking if I was done and could get the combined document to freelancers since this was apparently incoming artillery-level urgent.
People, I know nothing at all about the project you're working on beyond its anagram letters. I have not been in any of the meetings, received any memos or work schedules, or even been told what exactly it is. Since I'm apparently the only person in our entire company who can do what you need done to these files, just maybe keeping me informed of priorities before you scurry away for a long holiday weekend would be a good idea.
BOISE, Idaho - Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men's room, Republican officials said Friday.
Ha ha!
HELOCs are great. It took me several years after breaking up with the ex and trading the OR house/buying him out of the CA house before I knew they existed, and having one let me sleep at night. I bought long enough ago that I look really good on paper, even though I'm secretly barely making it, so I have huge HELOC. Good thing, since I needed it to help bail a family member out of a huge financial jam this summer.
My house had holes and blown-in insulation done right before we bought it! H and I spent all summer digging out the cheap plastic plugs, hammering in wooden plugs, sand/patch/prime/repeat and painting. But the house is so very comfy most of the time. A good attic fan and a ridge vent are other good non-A/C ways to cool a house.
Also, hello. I think this is the first time I've posted in Natter (or read it) in months, maybe year?
Hee! Yay, Java!
So when you guys are talking about blown-in, you mean cellulose? Or that weird new blow-able fiberglass? Cause we really want to do foam, if our volunteer comes through. We are doing the ridge vent thing.
Cellulose, I think. Some environmental type.
It looks like shredded newspaper, though it can't possibly be.
Does foam outgas?
Ridge vents rock. My ex and I are friends, he moved to Petaluma, where it's a lot hotter, and insists that whole house fans are the best thing ever, esp. in combo with good vents. I forgot to take a look at the WHF the last time I was up there.
H was a solar & elec contractor for years. If fiberglass bats were left over from a job, he'd pitch up out in the attic. Pretty much the only cold comes from the floor at my house these days, but hardwood is a pretty good insulator all by itself. Only if I lived in freezing country would I have to do something.