Well this past weekend was mostly a total wash. I foolishly made a point to stay home Saturday because the great old US post office was supposed to deliver the package Jenn sent me. It’s not that I am surprised that they never bothered to show up, that was almost expected. It’s more now that sense I got the first delivery card a week ago I have herd nothing and have no idea where said package is. I hope at best it will get sent back to Jenn in NE and I can have her try sending it again but to my work address this time. Grrrr. There are those that say the post office has outlived its usefulness in this day and age and I’m starting to agree with them. I already am planning to set up on line bill pay with my bank so I don’t even have to use them to mail most of my bills. SO THERE! USPS can bite me.
Well now that my mail rant is done. And I guess I feel a tad better. But I guess I was able to make the weekend a touch productive in spite of all that. I got some cleaning done and finally filled out my taxes which I had kept putting off. Glad I did too. Looks like I will be getting about $100 back from the state and $500 from the feds. This money will sadly have to go to pay bills or loans or something. Probably! There still is that little voice whispering in my ear. What is it saying you ask? Why it just keeps chanting the word “I-pod” over and over! Not that it would be a completely frivolous purchase. My old MP3 player, which is like over 4 years old at this point, is on its last legs. It keeps shorting out where the battery goes so if I have it on and look at it funny it will just reset. Very annoying. Sure you say, “but Andrew, surely you can live with out a music player!”. To that I simply have to reply “Ahh. But I ride on the subway every day to and from work. Besides keeping the trip from being mind numbingly boring it keeps the crazy people from bothering me!”. Being able to tune out my fellow subway riders is so very nice. Were my current player to ever totally bite the dust I would have to at the very least get a portable CD player or some such thing, so why not spend a few hundred bucks more and listen in style! Now I don’t want you my readers to think I am the type to just throw money around, quite the opposite. But when one is about $70,000 in debt to the student loan people and such a few hundred extra really isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things. In the end odds are the money will go to pay my credit card or student loan or some such thing…. probably. (Unless some of my loyal blog readers were to try and convince me otherwise 
hehehehe)
On the forensic science front, we got our unknown samples today to work on. I was able to finish all ten today! WOOT! Except that now tomorrow I wont have anything to do other then the same ten samples all over again. Which, while it would be good practice, I don’t really think is necessary. I will find out tomorrow how I did on the ten but I don’t see how I could of missed anything. Saw the hairs (or didn’t) and got the BU/PP or PP/PP color (again or didn’t depending on the sample). Eh. Will just have to wait and see. If nothing else I am still making a good dent in my book so at least I got that going for me. Hehehe.
On a final note I am mostly sure the ceiling of my apartment is stuffed with asbestos. When I was trying to get the smoke alarm to shut up I tried to pull it down off the ceiling and in the process found that:
1.It’s wired into the apartments power.
2.The gravel stuff that fell on my head sure looks a lot like asbestos.
Not that it would surprise me given how old this building probably is. Mind you it doesn’t bother me (other then when it was raining down on my head). Way I see it, I will do my thing, it can do it’s thing up in the ceiling, and as long as I don’t go eating the stuff or breathing it in on a regular basis everyone should be happy.
Eh… living in NY I probably get worse riding the subway every day!
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Well this past weekend was mostly a total wash. I foolishly made a point to stay home Saturday because the great old US post office was supposed to deliver the package Jenn sent me. It’s not that I am surprised that they never bothered to show up, that was almost expected. It’s more now that sense I got the first delivery card a week ago I have herd nothing and have no idea where said package is. I hope at best it will get sent back to Jenn in NE and I can have her try sending it again but to my work address this time. Grrrr. There are those that say the post office has outlived its usefulness in this day and age and I’m starting to agree with them. I already am planning to set up on line bill pay with my bank so I don’t even have to use them to mail most of my bills. SO THERE! USPS can bite me.
Well now that my mail rant is done. And I guess I feel a tad better. But I guess I was able to make the weekend a touch productive in spite of all that. I got some cleaning done and finally filled out my taxes which I had kept putting off. Glad I did too. Looks like I will be getting about $100 back from the state and $500 from the feds. This money will sadly have to go to pay bills or loans or something. Probably! There still is that little voice whispering in my ear. What is it saying you ask? Why it just keeps chanting the word “I-pod” over and over! Not that it would be a completely frivolous purchase. My old MP3 player, which is like over 4 years old at this point, is on its last legs. It keeps shorting out where the battery goes so if I have it on and look at it funny it will just reset. Very annoying. Sure you say, “but Andrew, surely you can live with out a music player!”. To that I simply have to reply “Ahh. But I ride on the subway every day to and from work. Besides keeping the trip from being mind numbingly boring it keeps the crazy people from bothering me!”. Being able to tune out my fellow subway riders is so very nice. Were my current player to ever totally bite the dust I would have to at the very least get a portable CD player or some such thing, so why not spend a few hundred bucks more and listen in style! Now I don’t want you my readers to think I am the type to just throw money around, quite the opposite. But when one is about $70,000 in debt to the student loan people and such a few hundred extra really isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things. In the end odds are the money will go to pay my credit card or student loan or some such thing…. probably. (Unless some of my loyal blog readers were to try and convince me otherwise hehehehe)
On the forensic science front, we got our unknown samples today to work on. I was able to finish all ten today! WOOT! Except that now tomorrow I wont have anything to do other then the same ten samples all over again. Which, while it would be good practice, I don’t really think is necessary. I will find out tomorrow how I did on the ten but I don’t see how I could of missed anything. Saw the hairs (or didn’t) and got the BU/PP or PP/PP color (again or didn’t depending on the sample). Eh. Will just have to wait and see. If nothing else I am still making a good dent in my book so at least I got that going for me. Hehehe.
On a final note I am mostly sure the ceiling of my apartment is stuffed with asbestos. When I was trying to get the smoke alarm to shut up I tried to pull it down off the ceiling and in the process found that:
1.It’s wired into the apartments power.
2.The gravel stuff that fell on my head sure looks a lot like asbestos.
Not that it would surprise me given how old this building probably is. Mind you it doesn’t bother me (other then when it was raining down on my head). Way I see it, I will do my thing, it can do it’s thing up in the ceiling, and as long as I don’t go eating the stuff or breathing it in on a regular basis everyone should be happy.
Eh… living in NY I probably get worse riding the subway every day!
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