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QotD: Best first album

What is the best FIRST album of all time?

Boston

Boston

Nuff said...

The corpse...

It's dead, Jim!

And the omelette I ordered to wash it down with was pretty good, too.

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QotD: Kitchen (Not So) Confidential

How would you rate your skills in the kitchen? What's the last thing you made?

Kitchen

Uh...I mixed a Carnation Instant Breakfast drink this morning....

QotD: Burning down the house

If your house was on fire, but you had time to grab one material possession, what would you take with you as you fled the flames?

Probably my purse because it has all my identification and credit cards and stuff, and I know from having my purse stolen a few years ago that getting all that junk replaced is a pain in the ass.

If I had time to grab one more thing, though, I'd probably take the computer, too. Everything I've written is on the computer, and I think I would feel just about the same losing that as I would if someone close to me died.

QotD: Tax Man

For those in the U.S., taxes are due tomorrow. Have you filed your taxes yet? Did you do it yourself or get help?

Oh yeah! Thank the Lord for TurboTax!

I submitted my federal return electronically yesterday, and dropped my state return in the mail at lunch today. (I'm getting $8 back. I'm not paying $19.95 extra for the privilege of filing for that electronically!)

My taxes are relatively simple, so they don't take me very long. My sister sells Avon, though, so hers are a little more complicated. I'm hoping all the paperwork and stuff I've been fussing with because of my layoff doesn't complicate next year's taxes.

Although from past layoffs, I seem to recall the only thing that affected my taxes (at least as far as making it more complicated to figure them out) was when I needed to withdraw some money from my investments. I'm going to do my damnedest this time not to need any extra cash.

QotD: Tattoos

If you were going to get a tattoo, what would it be of and where would you get it? What's stopping you?

I've thought about getting a tattoo, but I don't know what it would be. Something not too elaborate, but it would have to be artistic and beautiful. Not some crappy scrawl.

The main thing that puts me off, however, is that I'd probably have to defer platelet donations for a year after having the tattoo, and I feel like that's of more value to the world than pumping ink under my skin.

Why am I not surprised?

Mastodon

Hee hee!

I'm reading an article in the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine about mammoths and mastodons in North America. The name "mastodon" was given to the animal because the pointed cusps on their teeth look like breasts.

From the Greek, mastos - "breast" and odont "teeth."

The inventor of this appellation?

A young anatomist by the name of Georges Cuvier.

A Frenchman.

Why does that not surprise me? :D :D :D

Should I be freaked out about this?

I just contacted the company that provided vision insurance at my old job, because I couldn't log in to the system to submit some expenses I incurred before I got laid off.

The automated system asked for the last four digits of my social security number and my date of birth. Then it tried to tell me that the member name was somebody I've never heard of.

When I finally got hold of a real person, she was able to find my account, and she's going to send me the stuff I need, so that's taken care of.

But should I be worried that apparently there is someone out there with the same date of birth whose SSN has the same last four digits?

Or did the system just find the closest approximation to the info I gave them?

I didn't get the job.

They decided to go with someone who had more actual advertising experience.

Oh well. The salary they were talking about was quite a bit less than I was making before, and it was in an out-of-the-way part of town that I never go to, so maybe it's just as well.

I am still getting some nibbles from my Monster.com resume, and that's just from people stumbling across the posting. I haven't done any actual job submissions myself yet.