Dear So and So

[sundial]

Dear Internal Revenue Service:

Enclosed you will find my 2007 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.

Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat.

I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers (valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00.

Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the " Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one (1) 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws).

One screw is enclosed for your convenience.

It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.

Sincerely,
A Satisfied Taxpayer

[Pax]

Dear Internal Revenue Service:

Enclosed you will find my 2007 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.

Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat.

I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers (valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00.

Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the " Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one (1) 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws).

One screw is enclosed for your convenience.

It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.

Sincerely,
A Satisfied Taxpayer

[Blueberry]

Dear Internal Revenue Service:

Enclosed you will find my 2007 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.

Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat.

I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers (valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00.

Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the " Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one (1) 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws).

One screw is enclosed for your convenience.

It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.

Sincerely,
A Satisfied Taxpayer

That is priceless

CA

[solobiker]

Dear TE,
Thank for all of the positive energy, friendship and great advice you have given. This is a great place.

[crazycanuck]

Dear Spring/Summery type weather,

Could you please be in BC & Alberta in time for our arrival? Please? If the forecast on the CBC site is correct, we're in for a shock!!!

Ok,yes it might be great to see snow after 8yrs but i've not driven in it!!

[lph]

Dear Body,

Thank you for being such a good sport and healing up so nicely after you got a week on the couch. Lungs - a special thanks to you for picking up on normal good working order again. Obsessive, don't-wanna-be-last-even-if-I-have-a-good-excuse Brain up here sure appreciates it

[SadieKate]

Dear Software Companies,

What is so fascinating about including all kinds of bells and whistles of useless software when a basic package with drivers is sufficient and mostly likely to have the most successful install and utilization? When I shell out the bucks for new hardware, why do I have to spend over 2 hours researching, uninstalling crap and rebooting for known common problems.

For instance, Google taskbar and search: I work for approximately the 27th largest company in the US with 30-some thousand employees, and they forbid both because they don't play nicely with business apps. I just did the recommended automatic install last night and all things IE related crashed. Two uninstalls and one reboot later IE is working again. Given that I already have problems with IE and Google that are so unfixable that my 1 week old laptop has to be replaced, I'm a tad cranky. Neither of these apps have anything to do at all with the actual operation of your hardware. They are just frills. Please don't go on Happy Hour binges with Google sales people any longer, m'kay?

Next I have a delightful morning wrestling with another app for the same hardware. I signed into the work network and BOOM! everything freezes. I can't even get the task manager to pop. WTF? 3 hard reboots later, I give up and use a personal computer to research the problem only to find that one of these stupid non-essential software apps is known to not play nicey, nicey with Cisco VPN. You think this could have been detected during install? Your product is titled "Office Edition." Let me think. Two people working from home in this household and 100% of us use Cisco VPN for either the aforementioned gigantic company or for another public employer who would be the 6th (or 5th?) largest economy in the world if it seceded from the US of A. Gosh, what are the chances that your product will be loaded to an office computer using Cisco VPN? Even I, a non-statistician, can figure that one out. The fix there only took 2 more re-boots to clear. And I’m still left with another SW app that I have to research getting it to not automatically start with each boot.

Oh wait a minute. I just figured out why you do it. It is so you can go giggle with Google during happy hour with all that time you’ve saved by not providing user manuals that cover all these apps.

K.I.S.S. and make your customers happy.

[Tuckervill]

Dear husband. re the post above...thank you for my new Macbook!

Karen