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[arethinn]

1. It's raining. Again. Still. This is a Good Thing. (See also: increasingly scarce "federal water" in California central valley.) For once I hope it rains all damn through PantheaCon later this week and into the next.

2. I'm thinking of a name change. Again. Still. This is an Annoying Yet Ongoing Thing.

3. Loving the broadband. It's still painlessly working for me and enotsola and, as far as I know, my mother (catherinelaurel -- I keep forgetting she has an LJ too, although I don't think she knows my username and I've asked her not to probe). My father has had some Issues relating to his NIC (we think) that we still haven't sorted out, but that's not AT&T's fault.

4. Preliminary calculation on my taxes predicts a total of $5100 in refund from state and federal combined. This is wrong in the sense that I should not have allowed it to happen, but what with my main investment account being in the negative this year (thus, Uncle Sam's zero interest beats a negative) and my expectation that enotsola would in fact manage to get employed and have a second income (and thus the taxes would level out because we'd be in a higher owing percentage), I wasn't that fussed about changing it until I actually saw what happened. Things economic now being what they are, I think I should expect just one income for some time yet, which means I need to get off my duff and change my withholding, so that I get to, you know, use that $5100 myself in the meantime. $425 a month is, uh, significant, even if what will likely happen to most of it is getting put in the account with the least pathetic interest (1.5%).

5. That said, it's a sort of windfall this particular next few months, which will hopefully finally result in a laptop for us plus a set of Ravenclaw robes for me and Slytherin ones for enotsola, who is being very indulgent both on the costuming and on my squee about going to slash pairing meetups a Azkatraz.

6. Would it have killed the PantheaCon staff to have included the workshop descriptions in the schedule PDF on the site? I understand that coding it in HTML might have been a hassle, but seriously. Just carve the relevant chunk out of your electronic version that I know you have and save it as a PDF. That seems to be what you did anyway, given the looks of the brief schedule. At least for Friday would have been nice.

Comments

[darkcactus.livejournal.com]

you could try putting the money into a 6 month-2 year cd at 5% :P can't touch it for the duration, but better interest

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

out of curiosity what institution do you know that offers that kind of rate on such a small deposit? BofA and ING are only offering 2...

[arethinn]

Where on earth do I find a CD which is as much as 5% these days? Also, I know a buck's a buck, but so far I haven't found the effort involved to be worth the measly $25-100 I would get for giving up the use of $1000 for 6 months to 2 years. I don't have $25,000 to throw at this.

[darkcactus.livejournal.com]

doh, yeah, apparently i haven't checked cd rates since wamu got gobbled up by chase. they used to have an online cd option with 5%. my bad :\

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

Depending on what format the author received the PDF in, the answer is a qualified "maybe." The latest version of Acrobat only gives you full copy/paste/edit capability if you get the PROFESSIONAL version, which costs 4x what the STANDARD version costs, and if there's a bi-column format or something like that it gets replicated exactly in plain text - which means copying and pasting becomes select one line, copy paste, select next line, copy, paste, repeat ad infinium.

[arethinn]

I know all that, but they're the *creators* of the PDF in the first place.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

organizationally, yes. that says nothing about the guy actually putting it up on the web per se.

[arethinn]

Rrrright... so what I mean is that whoever did have creation control over the PDF should have done B instead of A (and actually I strongly suspect we are talking about like two people here, not a whole army of them).

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

The PCon schedule always goes up late, but I think this year is later than most, not sure why.

You know it's only raining there because the_misha brought the weather with him, right? Maybe I'll do the same for PCon.

[istari.livejournal.com]

But I looooove your name!

[arethinn]

I never have loved any name that I had and I probably never will. :P More practically, I'm getting tired of typing fifteen characters every time I want to switch between this and esmestrella (which is also too long and it seems no one can pronounce or spell it anyway).

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

I'm all for rain through Pantheacon as long as it takes breaks on Friday morning and Monday afternoon, when we have to drive over the Grapevine. :P