I refilled this.

We're looking at colleges. Maddie arranged a tour at Marymount. Ok I know exactly where Loyola Marymount is no problem. We arrive at the scheduled time. They look at us like we've got 3 heads. Yea didn't know there is also a Marymount in Palos Verdes. Took her to the wrong school. Sigh.

Luckily got to Palos Verdes and they were able to reschedule and they let us know that she had also been accepted. So now that I took her to the right one we have to figure out if we can afford it.

Congrats Maddie on being accepted!

Our school is paying for 2 years of community college for Zach. Then he can transfer to the college of his choice and finish his degree, on our dime.

And because I'm brilliant like that. Yesterday I was comparing tuition costs and somehow got on the out of state page for one college vs the in state for another and for a brief moment it was so much cheaper for her to go to San Francisco than to stay home and go to San Marcos. I need to stop looking I think.

Cirque that's great for Zach. Maddie's now busy applying for every scholarship she thinks she qualifies for, there's even an app for that.

Link?

https://www.scholarships.com/. I think there are some others as well.

Noooooo!

I was out of the office for a bit yesterday, when one of my co-workers dropped off a box of See's candy in the break room. I'm taking the real deal picked up at a See's store not that packaged months ago crap we normally get here on the bitter east coast and these local heathens ate it all before I returned.

Fortunately, See's chocolate isn't all that good so you didn't miss much.

Not something stupid I did - something stupid a Time Warner Cable customer service agent did...they entered a chat with my mother.

My mother sent me the transcript. I've witnessed many an encounter between my mother and customer service over the phone. She's skilled, but she's not subtle, her most effective tactic is brute force. And while she's far more tech savvy than the average retiree, she doesn't spend a lot of time communicating via chat, so her etiquette and understanding of the medium is lacking.

What she sent is about the most unhinged I've seen her. Yikes. Within 2 exchanges she escalated to "Spare me your platitudes!" And she thinks she looks like the hero.