It isn't every day you find out which crack your life slipped down twenty years ago.

A change-of-address form. Which either didn't get sent, or wasn't noticed if it did, who knows at this remove. But it turns out that that was why my college never contacted me to explain What Happens Now after I took some time off to regroup; no exit interview, no ( Read more... )

The car is home. Final damages to the Other Guy's insurance: about $4500, and another grand for the rental. Not to mention that I have my fingers crossed that it's really going to be as nice out this weekend as has been promised, since apparently they washed it inside as well as out and it stinks so bad that Mum had to roll the windows down from it ( Read more... )

...More than $5k damage estimated to the car, not to mention several days of work lost already because it's taking forever to sort a rental. As I've seen people saying, could somebody turn 2016 off and back on again to see if that would help...?

On today's episode of "Mum's Adventures In Driving", she parked the car, went inside to pick up the delivery-job, and came back out to find that a guy from the company she was picking up at had backed the sticky-out-bit of the back of the company's truck through her back window ( Read more... )

And then there was the part where Mum bumped the lightswitch that's been on notice for Suspicious Behaviour for a couple of years and it made sizzly noises and smelled like melting plastic; we've declared that circuit off-limits for realsies until we can get an electrician in to assess the situation, because clearly that is not normal or reasonable ( Read more... )

I would really like to make it a requirement of "So You Want To Become An Economist 101" that these bozos on Wall Street who think they know how the world works should have to make something with their own hands and then spend a day sitting behind a table trying to sell it. Just Fucking Saying.

So, YarnCon... could have gone better, there was some sort of conflict with the parking that had attendance drastically down from the last two years, but at least I am not in the red from the exercise, which is always a worry for these things. Doing another Craft Type Show Endeavour this coming Saturday; there will be a petting zoo, which should ( Read more... )

On to be a vendor again at this year's YarnCon, which means scratching up $100 for the fee and then worrying about inventory... If this were a real business, or more to the point a real economy, this is the sort of thing that should be covering itself, and actually it does, in the Grand Scheme Of Things, it's just the part where it's only after-the ( Read more... )

ME, reading through inbox: Email from Whole Paycheck, hm, cherries are $1.99 tomorrow... {goes to wake Mum back up} Hey, cherries are on sale at Whole Paycheck, pick some up on your way home?

MUM, who has actually not fallen asleep yet, but is in permanent state of HEY YOU KIDS GET OFF MY TECHNOLAWN: ...Where did you hear this from ( Read more... )

Census gig now officially over with the turning-in of the badges and, alas, the satchel. (I suppose they don't want George running about impersonating a wodge of enumerator questionnaires or something.) Less concern for the original contents of the satchel, though, so I had the bitten-up pencils off them for a souvenir. They can have back the rest ( Read more... )