So, I e-filed taxes with HR Block. Then I got an email saying there was a problem with my return--name and birthday weren't matching up. I curse HR Block's software, sure that they screwed it up, but I call the SS administration to check. (By the way, contacting the SS at 8a.m. on Tuesday morning was super-fast. I wasn't really on hold at all. ( Read more... )

Because it entertained me: http://mrissa.livejournal.com/703270.html?view=12695078#t12695078

I use the freight elevator to take mail down to the loading dock of the skyscraper I work in. Picture a massive slow-moving metal behemoth, with a camera glaring down from twelve feet up in the corner. Right out of a horror movie, really. The cleaning crew sometimes leave bags of trash inside as they go about their work. Today, there was a six ( Read more... )

My living room is 5 minutes in the future, though my study, where I write about robots and flying cars, is always in the present ( Read more... )

I had been told that I would have a work project this morning, but before I was able to leave I got a phone call telling me that there wasn't any work. So I called back later, once the manager was in, and she told me that there was a project, but it would need to be cleared with the Elder Gods before she could tell me anything more about it. She ( Read more... )

We've been working on what I call The Coding* Project From Hell most of this week. Just finished the last bit of it this afternoon, but there will be the QC left to do on Monday. I'd "volunteered" to come in and work on it Sunday. It was pretty lucky that we actually finished coding it today, as the client had steam coming out of his nostrils ( Read more... )