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Why yes, yes I do.
Does it bother me?
Why no, it does not.
Once the taxes are done, they need to be put in the mail. Which, as yesterday's comments revealed, can be a pain, depending on where you live.
The USPS doesn't really live up to its once vaunted reputation. For those of you of a certain age you might remember their old motto, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
The USPS doesn't really claim this as their motto or creed, officially, but unofficially, sure that's what they strive for.
Ah, it's good to have goals. Better yet to hit those goals.
But I digress, I was speaking of the taxes.
Printing out (don't get started on submitting them online, I don't do that, my reasons are my own) the various forms was fun. Seems I need to update my printer drivers, or I can continue to stop the print spooler, clear the print queue by manually deleting files, restart the print spooler, delete the printer I have selected, then install it again.
While a pain, it worked, in my defense I was "draining the swamp" and decided to actually worry about the alligators later.
So everything is printed out, just needs to get stapled together and ...
Damn it. Where's my stapler?
Hhmm, not there, where I thought I left it last year. Nor is it there, where I have left it in past years. Maybe it's ...
Screw it, I'll buy another stapler.
Someday I am going to find a treasure trove of staplers, all barely used though rather dusty. The staplers are probably with all those socks which get lost in the dryer. Or the Tupperware lids which don't seem to go anywhere.
Argh, back to Ancient Rome, things are simpler there, the stapler hasn't been invented yet ...
Sarge Note: Yes, I'm enjoying my weekend, why do you ask? I'm sure the Muse is fine, she's probably with some sailors in a dive bar in ... Ruh roh.
Stapler is kept two feet from where the incoming mail/outgoing mail is kept on the end of the kitchen counter. Alea iacta est Sarge.
ReplyDeleteNothing stays in the same place in this house for very long.
DeleteIt's great to be living in a time & place when getting a stapler is not a problem!
ReplyDeleteYes, the availability of staplers is rather astounding as we trend towards a paperless world. (No, I don't think that will ever happen. Bureaucrats being so wedded to paperwork.)
DeleteTo quote from one of my favorite movies (since I don’t speak Latin) “Never give up! Never surrender”
ReplyDeletejuvat
Numquam desiste! Numquam te dede!
Delete"she's probably with some sailors in a dive bar in"
ReplyDeleteAh! Gathering information for a saga of seafaring daring do!
Or she might just be partying.
DeleteStapler theft was a major crime at work. The stapler by the copy machine/ printer would wander off and usually be found in an intern's cubicle.
ReplyDeleteOur office manager threatened to fix as in castrate the next person who made off with it. She banded young bulls on her farm, so the message was taken seriously.
As I wrote this I pictured Milton from Office Space. I almost bought a red stapler in his honor. But my favorite color is blue, so ...
DeleteAll I can say is it was simply AMAZING how many staplers, rulers, rolls of Scotch tape, etc etc that were found when I moved from and then 10 years later back to NY. Major life events do have that effect I have found. And anything that could roll, or was light enough to be gently pushed, and fell down under furniture can be blamed on the cats.
ReplyDeleteThe Muse has been working hard recently, she is allowed a couple of days of liberty...just saying...
Suz
The Muse appreciates your sympathy for her plight. 😉
DeleteApplause: subtle stuff. Your Iranian readers will be well pleased.
ReplyDeleteBut do all your other readers know that the postal motto was a description by Herodotus of the PERSIAN postal service in ca 500BC?
I just recently was told that referring to Iran as Persia is akin to referring to Deutschland as Germany. Seems the Greeks referred to that empire as Persia. Just as the Romans called Deutschland Germania. Huh.
DeleteThe old title of the Emperor of Persia translates as "The Shah of Iran and non-Iran." Which would be like saying the King of France was "The King of the Isle de Paris and the rest of the Country" which, you know, is how the leaders of France seem to treat the nation, no?
DeleteFrance hasn't had a leader since Napoléon died. Had some politicos allegedly in charge since then, but how has that worked out for la belle France?
DeleteThe only saving grace here at Taigh no Thoirdhealbheach Beucail is that years ago, a basket was designated to hold all office supplies. This basket has followed us every move with more or less the same contents - although given the paperless world we now live in, I find myself using them very infrequently.
ReplyDeleteIf I have anything important to send, I never send it via USPS.
I feel compelled to use the USPS, not sure why. Habit?
DeleteI think the Infernal Revenue Service prefers USPS over anything else.
DeleteI think you're on to something there, Beans!
DeleteAfter years of being blocked from filing our taxes on line I finally found the reason. The SSA misspelled my wife's name when they issued her a new card after we were married.... Go figure.
ReplyDeleteClassic federal government.
DeleteI know exactly where my stapler is located. Staples to fill it again?
ReplyDeleteI had the opposite problem. A big box of staples, right where they've been for years, but no stapler. You'd think I'd leave them together, but no, I didn't. Go figure.
DeleteStapler? What's a stapler? We don't need no staplers!!!
ReplyDeletejuvat
Heh.
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