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Sooooooooooooooooooooooo… yeah.
Hi.
I updated WordPress and I’m not really seeing a difference but of course that could be just me.
I am feeling SO much better its kind of like I have been cured without doing anything. I still have headaches and the occasional case of dizziness but other than that I am feeling pretty damn decent.
Home life is actually on the rise. The firing of DH hasn’t been too bad because he got to collect unemployment and then I was able to start my lifelong dream of owning a business. I am now the proud owner of [FILL IN BUSINESS NAME HERE]! I have a pretty logo and everything! Plus because I am a minority in the eyes of Texas, they consider me to be a Historically Underutilized Business. I am not sure who came up with that nonsense, but it sounds all kinds of wrong.
Anyway, so far it’s coming together rather nicely so hopefully it will take off and by next year I will be a semi millionaire drinking margaritas with my mother by my pool in my brand new house.
Meanwhile, back in the land of reality I am still working at the same old place1 that has been giving me nightmares. As usual it’s not the job that is causing me the nightmares but the people. I really don’t know what it is about a post office that causes people to leave their brains at home, but damn. More now than ever we get people who show up with items in hand, no address, no boxes and then look at us like we are crazy when we tell them we can’t help them.2
I am like 35 years old or something, and as far back as I can recall when my mother went to the post office her letters were sealed with a stamp on it UNLESS she was there to purchase new stamps because she overlooked the fact that she was on her last few. I grew up doing the same thing. The post office was a place for me to drop off letters. It was never a packing place. I never rolled into it with a bag of items looking for a box, and free tape and free labels. Hell, I never recall them offering ANY of that. The line was long so that we could pay for the postage on the already packed up boxes or add little extras to our envelopes.
I know I have touched on this 100 time before, but it really blows my mind. And as I have said before, my face holds no secrets. When I feel someone is being an idiot, my facial expression will reveal it long before I have a chance to utter the words ‘You are a [bleeeeeeeeep] moron!’
And oh… before I go. Postage rates are now 44 cents. They went up on May 11th from 42 cents. Next year they will more than likely go up again. If you own Forever Stamps (the liberty bells) you do not need to ever add additional postage. Ever.3
Thank you.
- rumor has it come Friday I won’t have a job anymore so lets see how that goes [↩]
- And go figure as I am writing this someone walks in and does this exact same thing. Wants to send his crap across the country and expects us to give him a free box and then ADDRESS THE LABEL FOR HIM! [↩]
- Unless you are sending something international. [↩]
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