Mari Ness - More tidbits

1. Plumbing update: To my alarm, the trench outside my apartment building, is growing, and now extends into the little road that winds through my apartment complex. On the bright side, this adds to the overall trench warfare feeling around the place, and, since I can't park anywhere near the accessible entrance to my apartment, I'm walking a lot more.

2. So for once, I gained something through procrastination: a free stamp. For some insane reason, the U.S. Post Office decided to shut down the majority of its local branches on Tax Day, which sent all of us last minute folks scurrying to the one remaining post office that keeps its self service office open until 10:30 pm – creating one massive line of desperate taxpayers and not incidentally a broken self service machine. In some desperation, a very nice post office manager just started handing out free stamps.

3. Geek love at its best.

4. And manta1104 has justified her existence by introducing me to Celtic Thunder which happens to be a great group to listen to when you are irritated about plumbing. (Broadway fans might want to check out "That's a woman.")

5. Minor health update: still feeling a bit dizzy and lightheaded, which is incidentally a good excuse for not doing particularly thoughtful or meaningful blog posts. Which is also why I'll just let Jon Stewart speak for me: