Yikes, -t. I hope he recovers quickly.

Quick hivemind question! In a job application, If you are supposed to put in the address of a previous employer, and you know that office has since closed, what do you list? Corporate headquarters, even though that's at the other end of the state, or across the country?

I would probably put the address I actually worked at, even if it's not the office any more. Because I hate that kind of application.

I really hate these applications where you have to cut and paste all the stuff from your resume into it, and it loses all your formatting. Argh.

Timelies all!

I guess I shouldn't complain about the rapid temperature drop here, since it's dry and most of the snow we got washed away with the rain. Still don't like it....

Oh, god, it's going down to 5 degrees F tonight. And it's quite windy; I had to run out and rescue my trash bin from flapping its contents all over the drive.

Gonna turn up the heat in advance. Maybe the house won't get too cold. Heat pumps are not the most efficient method of heating.

UGH. Stupid post office. So, they sell either random boxes made by a random company, or "flat rate" USPS boxes. I though those came with tear off sticky strips like, say, most UPS boxes, but no. And when I got to the front of the line (because of course there was a long line) they said they didn't provide tape for their own boxes (I knew they didn't for the random other boxes, but not for their own flat rate ones??) and I could buy some for $3.50. Fuck that noise--I scribbled out the address I'd already written on the box and walked out. I"ll go to UPS--even if it's more than the $16 (!!) USPS wanted, it'll still be easier and probably a lot less of a wait in line.

Well, by the time you get here, we should be back at normal winter temperatures for the region...

I'll take it

I just spent several minutes trying to figure out why buffistas.COM wouldn't let me in. Clearly, it's been too long even with intermittent lurking. Catching up slowly. Very slowly, I guess.

I am boneless! Bone-free! Deboned!

I was convinced it had become infected and I would need antibiotics before they could do anything with it, but it was actually so painful because the bit of bone had broken loose, so it was poking its pointy end into an open wound.

The oral surgeon said "I bet I can get that out with topical anesthetic and tweezers", and they brushed the site a few times with a q-tip and the anesthetic, and just brushing the q-tip across pulled the bone out.

Now I just have a little wound in my mouth which should heal quickly. I'm relieved.

That's awesome, Dana! Or, if not awesome, at least the best possible outcome of an un-awesome situation. Yay!