Holy radiogram, Batman!

The day started auspiciously enough.

I ran across a postcard I received from the Colorado Secretary of State, asking (in that way that's almost unique to government bodies) that I file a report for my LLC and cough up $25 to go with it.

I was prepared to fill the card out, write out the check, and then send it Express Mail, as the card indicates that the Secretary really wants to have it back (and not postmarked by) the end of the month. A web-site address was printed at the bottom of a page.

I went to the site, verified my data, and then my eye caught an item in the navigation area, to the effect that I could file my document online (and, I presumed, also cough up the mazuma via credit card).

All so true, except that the cost of filing electronically (by credit card) was 25 cents.

I was so shocked, that I called the office of the Secretary to verify the price, which was deemed kosher by the person who answered the phone. It turns out the State is trying to see just how many people file electronically, I guess.

* * *Having saved myself a few bucks and a trip to the post office, I departed for JSC and stopped by the POA office that had been sending me nasty letters via certified mail. Yes, they had received my payment (which I sent on the 15th of the month). No, there was no complaint about mold growing on our house.

I called Galina. She said she's not sure, but the complaint is likely against a different house, which has me all a-titter, since we've apparently just gotten another letter, and I don't know from whom!

* * *Robert B. Parker is one of two authors whose books I'll buy in hardcover. I've been trying to pace myself through his newest Spenser book, Widow's Walk, and it's really hard to do that, given the trail of bodies the author has strewn in Spenser's path, with nary a clue as to what - or who - is to blame.

Despite my best efforts, there's probably only one sitting left to the book.

* * *I was prepared to take a break during the action here at the MCC and write my response to vuzh's query asking about my feelings toward the word "womyn."

Unfortunately, whereas we poor Execute Package translators were visited with 14 radiograms yesterday, today we were the recipients of 18 (or maybe 19... I've frankly lost count) such communications, so my commentary will have to be delayed a bit longer.

My partner today was Lydia B., who is a pleasant enough young lady, and a fairly good translator, but she was so anxious to leave at her appointed hour (5pm) that she really didn't do a workmanlike job of her last translation, which took just a little bit more out of me.

I've basically been on afterburner since arriving at noon, and there is one radiogram left (the Form 24 for today, which is pretty much a dead letter, but OpsPlan would like to have it translated for the record), and I need to review three more that I did a little while ago. (I'm writing this post to give me a little "distance" from those jobs, thereby improving - albeit only slightly - my chances of finding my own errors.)

There's a half hour left to the shift, and I am not looking forward to extending my time here, so it's back to work!

Cheers...