Jessica, do the teachers distribute school supplies?

Yeah, at the beginning of the year I bought 6 marble notebooks and 2 boxes of pencils (and a zillion other things, printer paper, dry-erase markers, crayons, erasers, colored folders, etc). I've replaced pencils and erasers on my own (because kids lose shit), but everything else is supposed to come from that batch of supplies we turned in back in September.

God, Suzi. At least you have a handle on it now?

I'm trying to think--in a scenario like that, what can you do to prove you paid it? I guess it depends on how you paid it, but I wouldn't even know about getting records that old. I do actually have carbons for my chequebook, but I shred them when I'm done--that's just the only way I can get Batman.

Incompetent developer is...oy. The non-prod system "broke" sometime last week. First thing she did was blame it on me, and when I explained that the changes I'd made weren't related either by type or by time to the errors that were coming up, she went silent. Stopped replying to my emails on the subject. Finally she asks me if she needs to fix it because it's just the test system. Well, we have a release next weekend, and perhaps revolutionarily, it will need to be tested before then.

More radio silence. I start ccing her on emails to other people where I say "When she tells you it's fixed, then you can start your testing", and somehow, some way, she discovered this morning that it actually was her fault, that what I told her was the problem is the problem, and she is actually taking some responsibility for pushing back needlessly.

I wish this counted for the other stuff she has to do--I'm now back to ccing our manager on "give me a heads up when you're done this" emails, because she is just unresponsive.

Exhausting.

In my life I have never heard of choosing office space this way.

Oh jeez, Suzi. Good luck getting that straightened out!

There have been many R2-D2 and C-3PO dresses, but this one is especially nice: C-3PO Dress - Neatorama

Or maybe the fact that it's not especially silly makes it look nicer.

I was picturing them wanting hundreds of dollars to get this fixed. So the fact that this will cost $147 plus my time isn't that bad. But between opening the mail yesterday and making all the calls today I felt horrible. Here I am, trying to help CJ get his license and I might lose mine? Over something so old? Bad adult, bad.

My credit union keeps downloadable PDFs of my checks online where I can privately access them for a good length of time. I've had it come in handy when somebody disputed as to whether I'd paid a bill.

I think you're right, Suzi, that it's simpler just to pay the damn bill, because the amount of time you'd spend on it otherwise is going to be a big enough time suck.

At least you found out this way, and not in the midst of being pulled over or something.

At least you found out this way, and not in the midst of being pulled over or something.

That's the truth.

Access to old records is one reason I've never changed banks, even though I don't like my bank much. They have all of my info!

Wrod. I'd love to be all Occupy and "Move my money," but is too much.