Google claims it's not possible for multiple people to sign up for the same address. I think they lie.

Are the letters you see not just people typing the recipient email wrong?

My favourite was someone who got ahold of my phone number and texted me angrily to insist the milkshake was still in the yard, and when I dealt with her flippantly ("Are you calling me a lesbian? I've never shaken any milk...:) she went ballistic and threatened to call muscle on me and wouldn't accept that it was a wrong number. It went way past entertaining (and for me, that takes a lot) and I blocked her. She was sending photos and telling me she was all that, and didn't I want to put a ring on it, and...

Maybe this is why the MRA. Or some shit.

Glam, I have found applications let you pick locations, since opportunities have locations. I have 50% of random recruiters calling and asking me to move to Virginia when I said nothing about moving anywhere.

I would google IT recruiters in the region It's good to get one--they are your voice.

texted me angrily to insist the milkshake was still in the yard

It took me a minute to realize you didn't mean this literally.

I only learned this fall of the trick of adding username+whatever@gmail to spoof multiple accounts going to my gmail inbox (I had to create multiple accounts for a test system where the unique id was whatever is before the @ and I didn't want to create new email accounts.)

Heaven forfend the idiots use that.

Are the letters you see not just people typing the recipient email wrong?

I assume mine entered the wrong thing once and has used auto form-filling ever since.

Are the letters you see not just people typing the recipient email wrong?

I don't think so. I think she signed up with the same name, different punctuation. I contacted her once when one of her alternate email addresses was CC'd and she implied as much.

that damn Fresh Breeze scent is KILLING ME. I feel like my sinuses are being roto-rooted by a metal bottle brush.

That is exactly the way I've described my reaction to those artificial scents. Ugh. How can a scent be physically painful?

Job~ma, ita!

I've been getting emails meant for another person with the same name as me for years. My email is firstname-lastname and hers is firstname-middleinitial-lastname. She's gone to college, graduated, gotten married, had a baby, and begun teaching. I don't want to know this much about a total stranger. For years I responded to the emails, patiently telling the senders they had the wrong email and the wrong person. Most of them never replied, some said thanks. One woman got snippy with me and insisted this was the email "I" had given her. The owner of the other email has, apparently, never clued in to the confusion and bothered to make sure that people note the middle initial in the address. I've given up and now I just delete the damn things. Sixteen years is long enough to be making sure a stranger gets her email.

Theo: I'm glad your FB friend found a safe place, but you know if you let her stay at your place, you'll have a new roommate. You've done enough, really. But keep the poor cat until she's settled, she can't take care of a cat if she can't take care of herself. She really needs to go back to the hospital.

ETA: never had problems with getting other people's legit e-mail. Y'all just need less common names.

I agree. I don't normally love my name (which is in part why I go by meara) but there's times when the uniqueness is handy.

Theo, that sounds really tough. I hope it all works out ok.

Glam, move to Seattle, not the southeast!

Twitter is flipping out hilariously about the NYC ebola case, but not a peep about it on FB, even in the local groups.

The only person whose email I get mixed up with is my brother-in-law who is named Jesse, and so our email addresses are only one letter off.

ita, best of luck on the job leads!!

You guys, how does one do a job search from across the country? We are looking to relocate to the southeast and I've sent a ton of resumes, asked everyone I know in the area to assist and I've gotten nothing. Someone suggested I change my address on my resume (I could use my parents' address in SC), but isn't that kind of shady? What happens when they want me to come on over for an interview? Sigh.

Glam, contact me at wordslingeuse@gmail.com, and I can help with suggestions. We are looking to make a cross-country move, and I'm totally taking over my husband's search, since I'm only going to do freelance stuff until we are ACTUALLY moved.

Man, you guys, I just talked to my chatterbox dad for like an hour. He was NOT tripping balls on pain meds, so it was an entertaining conversation, in which I found out he's all in favor of gay marriage. MIND BLOWN. (He's kind of regressive and tends towards small-minded redneck ways, to my chagrin.) But he was all, "What does it harm anyone if 2 guys want to get married? As long as they don't force me to marry someone gay, then I don't care!"

I said, "Dad, you know that's not how gay people operate, right?" And he said, "Oh, I just don't want to ever get married again, is all."

Well dang, Dad. Right on. He is also in favor of legalizing pot, and thinks that any politician who wants to be president should be disqualified from running, because wanting to run for president proves they're clinically insane. (I *think* he's joking on that last one, but I'm not sure.)

He's also not worried about Ebola because, and I quote, "I'm not touching strange poop!" I like that he qualified *strange* poop. Thanks, Dad.