Interview-ma, shrift!

Oh my. Apparently my post office is a portal to hell: [link]

I hope this place burns down and all of its employees with it. Mean? You bet you ass! my purse was stolen and my mail key with it. I couldn't get another mail key for a week. The idiot box postal man took it upon themselves to return all of my mail to the original senders. Now I have to contact every one of my utility companies/ credit cards/ magazine subscriptions/ netflix subscriptions to let them know that I still do reside at my address.

I spoke with the manager LYNN JOHNSON. What a f*cking B*tch. God I'm so pissed. Avoid this office at all costs! I should burn it down myself.

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I'm convinced this is a direct portal to hell. I've had multiple packages go missing, one of which (a poster box) was repeatedly stepped on and destroyed. In addition, the woman behind the counter was considering not accepting my credit card since it said Andy and my drivers license said Andrew.

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I hate them. Truly. My mail service is spotty (magazines go missing, mail is OPENED, and Netflix...well, if you fall under the Uptown Post Office, don't bother with this service, unless you want DVD pieces). I try to avoid this place at all costs...only to pick up packages (that are NEVER there)

Chicago has (I think) the worst mail delivery of any big US city. Looks like I've got an especially bad post office.

I think he has 101 hors d'ouevres somewhere, too.

Found it! [link]

Seriously. All y'all are invited to my party. And not just because there's going to be totally ridic amounts of food to use up, either.

Most of my parents mail gets there a week late. One of the city politicians sent mail from City Hall to his home, around the corner.

It took 2 weeks.

There've been threats to turn the sorting operation over to a city 45 miles south.

Recently I got a postcard from my dentist in Evanston about an upcoming appointment. It took six weeks to get to me. (Evanston boarders Chicago.)

Jesse, did you see they have a whole article about Pat Kiernan and Today's Papers: [link] !!!1!!

Pat showed it to me this morning! In the paper! But then I forgot to read it, so thanks. Although doesn't it read like all he does is the papers? Weird.

tommyrot, I've got a DC-area story that belongs with that one.

I once lived in the Vienna-Reston area. Someone sent me a letter from Springfield, another suburb maybe -- maybe -- 15 miles away. It didn't take six weeks to get to me. But it was postmarked in Oklahoma City.

I also saw it this morning but forgot about it until now. I always wondered what happened during the pre-taped segments and when he got sleep. NOW I KNOW! We love you Pat Kiernan!

Who is the Buffista who lives on a boat.

Yup that's us. tommy, it's really not less expensive to live on a boat (at least in Marina del Rey) when you take into account bottom cleaning, pump out, slip fees, engine maintenance and fuel. It is really nice to not have to pack anything if we decide to head to Catalina or Malibu. Drunken idiots boating over the summer is the downside.

We don't worry about theft very much because it's a huge pain in the ass to try and climb over the gates and you need a key in and out of them. Plus there are always people on the docks.

The only time we've experienced it being really cold was in January of this year when, due to construction, our dock power was cut off for 24 hours. We rely on space heaters for the most part and even when the dock was frozen, we weren't that cold. Even in our 50 ft. boat, it warms up pretty fast once the heaters kick in.

Nutty, my husband once had an octopus climb up between the boat and the dock while he was filling the water tank. Just might be the octopus army advanced guards.