Here's a question: the realty agency who is doing the rental wants the deposit in the form of a cashier's check. Can someone tell me why they need that and why I can't send a personal check and have them wait for the check to clear?

I dunno, but the place I moved into in '01 required that. Which sucked, because my bank was closed that day on account of 9/11.

My theory is they're thinking, 'Well, if a prospective tenant can't come up with an immediate payment for moving in, we don't want them."

Unless you're handing them a cashier's check at a branch of your bank, it's not much protection for them. Cashier's checks are really easy to forge these days, which is why they're disappearing.

Whoa, really? I had no idea. What's the more secure thing they should be asking for?

It is in the high 90's here. I went out into it for the first time in a couple of days. The air doesn't stink of smoke, wind must be blowing the right way.

CJ got a call for a missing woman. We got to the scene, the team was gathered up, getting her description and working out search patterns, and while that was going on she was found. This is why I never just drop him off for in town searches. He's glad she got found quickly, but bummed he never got out of the parking lot on the search.

Ginger,

right? that's why I don't understand why, in this day and age, they just don't wait the 2 days for the check to clear.

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The best twitter comment I have seen today regarding Cruise/Holmes:

TWITTER. I LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR SIX HOURS AND SUDDENLY HARRY POTTER HANDS KATIE HOLMES A SOCK

Yeah, I was going to say, cashier's checks aren't that secure (and weren't even when I worked in a bank in the 90s), but people love 'em! Also, you'd probably pay at least $12 to get one anyway, I think.

OMG, did I tell y'all?!? Mac's day camp is open July 4th!!! A day off for ONLY ME!! I am going to see if the massage therapist is working.

Woot!

I am eating fucking salad for dinner and I do not want to! But the lettuce will go bad. I wish I could eat kale instead...

Oh, but it did occur to me that I should make it into lunches for next week -- that would be better.

I am on a plane. With Beau. And we have both encountered something I have never encountered before on a plane flight.

Our seatmate has his headphones on, and he is singing along with his music - LOUDLY. Does he not realize that he is not using his inside voice?

Jodh Groban should not be tweeting that.

Why not? Surely the only people that need to be okay with that are Adele and the father, whoever he is.

Oh...I see his copypastaing. Still, I don't see the inherent problem.

I just got tossed entirely under the bus by a co-worker. To my boss. It was a really touching emotional moment, as I tried my best to explain that if the answers change to the question I keep repeating, there's not much I can do other than wait for them to change and react as swiftly as possible.

The first three times I asked the developer for his DEVELOPER expert opinion, he said no. The fourth time, he said yes. So I told my manager, and she didn't tell our boss, and the development rep basically said "Yeah, that was on ita !" Whereas, really, his contractors just need to give me the right answer sooner rather than later...

And, honestly, I told y'all what resources were required. You didn't do anything about it AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME you weren't doing anything. I am not a manager. Some things are not my job, I swear.

My boss has never been madder at me. He was spitting furious. Jesus.

Our seatmate has his headphones on, and he is singing along with his music - LOUDLY. Does he not realize that he is not using his inside voice?

Ha! I almost wish I were the kind of person who would do that.

Ugh, ita.