Apr. 14th, 2004 01:20 pm
Good housekeeping cont.
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muckefuckI never mentioned that my new passport arrived in the mail last weekend. I wasn't expecting to see it for weeks! Even more surprising, after I had resigned myself to the loss of my old passport containing stamps from all my trips abroad, they sent it back! Ha, ha, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu and you thought I was going to be rid of another piece of personal detritus! Nope, it goes in my Nostalgia File along with all the ticket stubs, pressed flowers, museum guides, blurry snapshots, and sundry articles from vacations past. I've been meaning to check with Bruce to see if he got his (plus his valuable personal documents), but I keep forgetting. (I'd like to have him over for drinks some time when I'm at monshu's, but it's hard to work up the enthusiasm for having guests over when it entails putting on pants.)
In any case, I'm now officially available for a spontaneous weekender on Airstrip One. Keep me in mind, jetsetters!
It finally occurred to me, when I was trying to figure out why I never received any 1099-DIV forms from my shareholdings, that despite filing a change of address form with the local post office, I haven't seen a single letter that's been forwarded from the previous address. Not a goddamn thing. I'm not surprised--this is how I expect the USPS to work--just disappointed.
At least some of the shareholder services sites are more useful than they were a year ago. The companies are still too wedded to print to let you change your address through them, but tax info is generally available. Of course, the news hasn't gotten to some of them foreign operations that the US dollar is the global currency of record. Consequently, one of them reported dividends for the year in pence with no equivalents. Take a hint from The Economist, lads!
monshu and you thought I was going to be rid of another piece of personal detritus! Nope, it goes in my Nostalgia File along with all the ticket stubs, pressed flowers, museum guides, blurry snapshots, and sundry articles from vacations past. I've been meaning to check with Bruce to see if he got his (plus his valuable personal documents), but I keep forgetting. (I'd like to have him over for drinks some time when I'm at monshu's, but it's hard to work up the enthusiasm for having guests over when it entails putting on pants.)In any case, I'm now officially available for a spontaneous weekender on Airstrip One. Keep me in mind, jetsetters!
It finally occurred to me, when I was trying to figure out why I never received any 1099-DIV forms from my shareholdings, that despite filing a change of address form with the local post office, I haven't seen a single letter that's been forwarded from the previous address. Not a goddamn thing. I'm not surprised--this is how I expect the USPS to work--just disappointed.
At least some of the shareholder services sites are more useful than they were a year ago. The companies are still too wedded to print to let you change your address through them, but tax info is generally available. Of course, the news hasn't gotten to some of them foreign operations that the US dollar is the global currency of record. Consequently, one of them reported dividends for the year in pence with no equivalents. Take a hint from The Economist, lads!
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That's okay, 'cuz I can't read ...
While scrolling through this entry I read that as, "one of them reported dividends for the year in pene with no equivalents.
Because if I had dividends, I'd report them using the Spanish word for "penis". ::nod::