Undated

It's Day 2 of This Thing We're Doing (my wonderful cousin and me) and I'm still up for the challenge, though I don't have much exciting news from today. Had a good laugh at work when we received an undated check for a permissions fee. Since it wasn't dated, we couldn't process the payment, so we tried calling the woman (her # was on her check) and the # was disconnected. So I pulled the backup and found an email address, wrote to her, said it would probably easier if she told me what date she sent the check and I could write it in with her approval, or of course if she wanted me to return it and send a new, dated one, to just let me know. [Note that this check was enclosed in a returned, signed contract, which she dated December 2008 (yes, our mail is slow sometimes.)] She emailed back almost immediately saying "Oh sure, why don't you date it August 19, 2009, oh but that's too late to cash isn't it, why don't you date it today?"

Please note the quotes signifying that this is her response verbatim, and a few other things:

(cuz - I <3 lists too.)

1. This woman is clearly out of her mind.
2. Why would we date it August 19, 2009? Really, why? Aside from the fact that it would then be about 6 months overdue and we'd have to just keep it in our check drawer (we don't have a check drawer) until August 19th, at which time we'd have to have a large notes reminding us to a) enter the check on that day and b) find it; does that date have any significance whatsoever?
3. Once this woman realized that was not the best option, she did not edit her one-line email, she simply added to it: "oh but that's too late to cash it, why don't you date it today?"

So I dated it and processed the check, ran it to my supervisor, we cracked up, end of work day, end of story. Really, though, ftw?

Season 4 of Lost is sick so far. 2 episodes in. New characters coming to the island (to save them?) and some realligned trust issues. I'll binge watch the rest of the season this weekend and am pretty excited.

I noticed yesterday, at the start of This Thing We're Doing, that I posted a new song that I like. Or at least it's new to me. How bout we keep that up and listen to a song a day? This is a good purpose for me to blog 25 days this month: share 25 awesome songs. I've been catching up on old NPR All Songs Considered podcasts and have heard some great stuff, in addition to my infinitely growing music collection. Until I can find the happiest, best way to post music here, I'll probably do it a bunch of different ways and sometimes direct you to other sites, which I'm a fan of doing anyway. Knowledge is power, or cool. Whatever, have some.

Today's song is from Eric Chenaux, Canadian lyricist and guitarist who writes simple, beautiful, lulling, sweet songs. Check him out. "Rest Your Daylights" is the song that hooked me first, but I think I love everything he does. It has nothing to do with crazy check lady or Lost, but I never said I was going for a theme here.