What significant things have I done today?

[Darlica]

I got my Diploma certificate.

[pieces o nine]

YAY! 

[Griffin NoName]

Found the govt. online pdf file that includes enough detail to be able to know how to fill in one box on my tax form necessitated by them over-simplifying the forms this year. Grrrrrrr!

Actually, it has taken three days in all. Does not bode well for the remaining boxes.

[Black Bart]

Had a full English breakfast...yum.

[Griffin NoName]

Aaaaaaaaaaargh! I could do  with one of those between filling in each box on my tax return.

[Darlica]

Nothing...

Besides vegitating infront of the computer, sporting a slight hangover.
I was out last night with a friend I haven't seen for awhile and had perhaps a glass of wine to many.

[Griffin NoName]

Filled in a form.

A long and difficult one. The sort which includes quite a lot of mutliple choice questions.

Like:

Leningrad is the capital of:

1. France
2. Iceland
3. South America

And then you have to swear your answers are accurate. On pain of death.

I get hysterical and go into frozen rabbit state. It brings up all my anxieties around what is absolute truth? (which I am convinced goes back to a Kleinian battle with which of my mother's breasts was good and which was bad - well, it makes as much sense as the forms).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Finished up a furnace install.  3 down, 2 to go.   People very happy. 

And just for Griffin, who is a dear, but I simply cannot resist to play a practical joke upon:

Last Post.

[Griffin NoName]

The most significant thing I have done while not being able to sleep is:

Puzzled over the precise meaning of Bobiaqsof's last words.

[beagle]

Puzzled over the precise meaning of Bobiaqsof's last words.

That worries me a little. What exactly have you done to him?

[Griffin NoName]

Puzzled over the precise meaning of Bobiaqsof's last words.

That worries me a little. What exactly have you done to him?

Too early to tell. And it was yesterday so cannot be reported retrospectively.

Today I put the form in an envelope.

[beagle]

Every year I send my tax form "signed for".  Every year the Post Office can't confirm HMRC received it. I think they deliberately refuse to sign to say they've received them.

[Griffin NoName]

Every year I send my tax form "signed for".  Every year the Post Office can't confirm HMRC received it. I think they deliberately refuse to sign to say they've received them.

LOL!  I do too. I've never actually asked for confirmation though. I expect HMRC don't want to waste ink signing

I do it mainly so I can blame the Post Office or HMRC - ie. proof of posting for delivery by the required deadline - like Quentin Crisp always going to the cinema with a friend.

I am also heavily resisting the file on line pleas on the basis that we have yet to have as successful archiving methods for the internet as medieval monks.

However, this form is not the tax form. Although you can guess from the problems described that it emanates from the same area of society and will require the same standard of delivery attention. For example, the pre-printed return address insert naturally did not fit the window envelope supplied.

The tax form still looms with only one box successfully dealt with.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Actually started studying for my economics midterm (tomorrow)! Not too bad, really. Just got to memorize the formulas and make sure I've got the newer bits (CPI, etc.) really settled properly in my head.

[Griffin NoName]

Posted the Form.

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Tried to send it special next day delievery as deadline looming. Couldn't. Because the pre-printed address did not exist according to the post office. The post man sent it "recorded" instead saying it would get there, wherever the non-existing address is. All very sinister. Could it be some secret mail box for Govt. data loss exercises or trapping terrorists?

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so.......... the other significant thing I have done to day is PANIC.