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Coffee and WiFi

I should be working. But now that I’ve escaped our messy home; I feel inspired to write, for fun. I need to fill out the census form (late), pay some bills, and do taxes. All of which I tried to do at home but kept feeling annoyed and distracted by socks and dishes and things. [...]

Must Fax Documents

I am puzzled by the number of companies that do not require a signature, but do require a fax.  What, you think that the fax cannot be altered?  But an email or upload can be altered? Fax Machine by Cary Lee The local library has doubled it’s fax rate.  $1 per page, the same as [...]

Mean Mom

I’m not sure what transpired, but this woman comes blazing into the kids section of the library with two children in tow, demanding of another women if they are her kids.  She then proceeds to tell the second woman that the children are unruly, horribly behaved and that she has been searching for their mother [...]

Small World Not So Good

We had a busy, busy Saturday.  Breakfast together, dashing around doing laundry,  Pre-K open house, finalizing registration, errands, then a birthday party to attend.  While running errands we find ourselves in line at the office store. And who appears behind us?  Hyena and her stinky kid.  Those of you who have been with me for [...]

GA Pre-K Bureaucracy

I have spent an inordinate amount of time the past two weeks trying to find a pre-k program for my child.  The system, to the best of my understanding, works like this: if there is room in a school system for pre-k, the kids (age 4 by August of that school year) go there. if [...]