The save-the-dates have been mail-merged, assembled, sealed, stamped, and are on their way to a suburban post office in hopes of avoiding the central Chicago processing center where many a non-standard sized envelope meets a violent, shredded doom. The latter decision stems from multiple wedding invitations arriving months late taped back together or not at all. This year’s batch of Christmas cards was no exception. The RSVP cards in the actual invitation will also return to a non-Chicago address in hopes to avoid this problem as well. Since the save-the-dates are refrigerator magnets, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the postal processing won’t freak out.
We used Google Documents’ spread sheet application to easily share a master address file so anyone on the “address committee” could add and edit the list. Of course, “everyone” turned out to be the two of us despite multiple training sessions. Still, it worked very well. Once assembled, the list was broken down to a smaller save-the-date list and then exported as an Excel sheet. This process worked pretty well, but there were a few easily-fixed, minor formatting errors having to do with color, etc. Not a big deal. Once in Excel format, I used Word to create a mail merge with the .XLS as the database. It was a snap. That feature has come a long way since the Word for Windows I used in high school. Being able to edit individual envelopes was also very handy for those eastern European names that need more than one line. The merge was also smart enough to retain the envelope orientation in the printer as well as knowing when to use a second address field for unit numbers, etc. when necessary and when to skip it.
Now if I could only get this envelope glue taste out of my mouth.
With the new city wide smoking ban in public places, restaurants, and bars, etc., these poor souls have to brave the weather in the middle of the parking lot to catch a cigarette break. I think the designated area is where it is because of the rules keeping any smoking area XX feet away from any entrance, but I’m not sure. Regardless, this shows them out there at 7:30am with a -10 wind chill. Now that’s dedication. And this place is usually packed. I should go sell hot dogs out there.
This fantastic and very interesting article by Mark Cuban was brought to my attention this morning as I groaned via chat to a friend after writing my checks to The Man for my state and federal 07 Q4 1040-ESes. He’s got some great points here. Too bad the rest of the country lacks the foresight to enact some of the ideas outlined here. Worth a definite read.
Warren Buffett , Taxes and the Presidency - Blog Maverick
#4. Hx of RCT + pre-fab post + PFM. Frequent decementation.
Pre-op.
Extraction.
Guide path.
Enlargement.
More Enlargement
Placement. Nobel Biocare WP 2.4×13mm Tapered Groovy.
4-week post-op.
#10, Hx of RCT + pre-fab post + PFM. Traumatic fracture at alveolar crest.
#5, Hx gross caries, non-restorable.
What better way to start of the new year than ending the previous with a healthy dose of cholesterol, fat, and booze? The highlights of our evening included an eight course wine tasting and a surf and turf combo. This is an entire filet mignon split with lobster tails and wrapped in bacon as recommended by a butcher friend. Outstanding. It took about two hours to cook all the way, but now that I’ve done it once, I think I can do it a little better next time. Believe me, I look forward to it!
I managed to get the entire place back into order this morning. I’m really glad I was smart enough to run the first load of dishes before I went to bed, and it was far easier when I got up. And that little dishwasher performed like a champ!
Now it’s off to watch the Illini and unload some leftovers! Oskee wow-wow!
