Ooh, LeN--it's nice to think the rug will be jerked out from underneath them at the last minute. Shame their clothes can't disappear right off their bodies when they're at the grocery store. I hope everything clears up simply. Wait--do you have the name of the person? Can we cyber-vendetta them????

One more meeting left for the day. One more meeting...

I can tell from quick googling that the Shorty people take themselves seriously, but how seriously are they taken? I noticed that, as usual, Misha's fans were rallying for him to win a Shorty award, and it worked (which means he wasn't up against someone from Teen Wolf...) and they sent him a questionnaire which he completely refused to take seriously: [link] I wonder if they'll let him play again... But the questions are both vapid and self-important. Good lord. How do you use social media to motivate yourself or others to live a healthier life?. Why would you ask that of the guy whose campaign video was fucking armadillos (literally)?

Ha ha! My manager was trying to offer my time to the more junior BA. Does she not understand she's already sold me body and soul to a man who comes to my desk after 4pm and tells me he needs stuff "before early tomorrow morning"? I don't mind doing the work for him, but I am going to have set expectations across the board.

I need to get my time management in fifth gear now, both personally and professionally. The project management course I went to this week wasn't anything new, but it's never not useful to get out of the office and see everything presented together by and with fresh eyes, especially in a forum where I could talk my ass off (about project management). So it didn't change my life, but it is reminding me of things I was letting slip through the cracks (all my meeting invites, even the most ad hoc ones, should have some info in the body about what I expect to achieve during the meeting--we get really slack about expecting people to get it from the title, or working it out when we get there, for example)

tree sex = pollen = snot in my world.

So, I went to DMV today to pay my registration. It is this small office in the corner of a strip mall. In and out pretty quickly. But getting out of the parking lot was another issue. At one end of the row a big garbage truck was blocking traffic as it changed out some of the big bins. At the other end of the row a semi was blocking traffic as it unloaded restuarant supplies. None of the parking spaces had an empty in our row with an empty on the other side so I could cut through.

It probably took 15 minutes before a vehicle moved out of the back row and then I had to wait for 5 other cars to cut through before I could back up and cut through myself. So frustrating.

I googled the people already and it looks like a set of deliberate misspellings of other people's names. I suspect they bought the tix online and had some stolen credit card numbers with security codes and my zip code and went for it.

I don't know what the scam is because I wonder if they traveled with the tix or if Spirit has a policy where you can exchange a ticket for another to another person and that's the scam they are running.

Ugh, le nubian. That does sound like a really stupid thing to buy, though!

I'm not sure I'd be able to tell a ripe one from a non-ripe one.

Hard vs. soft, to start.

BTW, I found about about this problem with pageonce. I got an alert that there had been a large purchase on my account from zara. I'm a pageonce fan in case any of you might be interested in it. It gives you alerts for bank accounts, utilities, etc.

I'm not sure I'd be able to tell a ripe one from a non-ripe one.

Hard vs. soft, to start.

I follow this, but I go from rock to rotten, completely missing nommy goodness. It is like Eddie Izzard's routine about pears being ripe only when you aren't looking. That is my luck with avocados in my house.

folks,

have any of you gone to H&R Block for taxes?

I used to work for H&R Block.

One takes a tiny, soft-bristled brush, like a paintbrush, or an eye makeup brush, brushes the flowers that have pollen to pick up the pollen on the brush, then brushes the pollen deep into the flowers that don't have pollen on them, to um, pollinate.

Or so I've read, anyway.

Good for vigilance, LeNub.

Wow Suzi! I think I knew that but forgot.

I have never gone and except for 1 year, I have done my taxes myself. I can't do it anymore - lost patience and with the move I don't feel like dealing with the bullshit.

Do you have any tips for me (I booked an appt with them next month) in terms of having them prepare my taxes? I was planning to bring my last three years of returns and spreadsheets for tax items. Is that sufficient (she says, with her anal-retentive side coming out)