March 2009
Tony & the stamps
March 31, 2009 - 2:22pm | MelvixWhen I went to the post office today to check my PO box, Tony, one of the clerks there, called my name.
"Did you lose some stamps?" he said. In fact I had lost some stamps, about a month ago, right after buying them. I figured they fell out of my pocket on the way home and that I'd seen the last of them.
"I did lose some stamps!" I said.
He handed me an envelope with my name printed on it, containing a sheet of stamps. "Somebody turned them in. I've been holding them for you in case I saw you," he said.
Someone waiting in line said, "Now that's service."
Made my day.
Plush toys based on children's drawings
March 17, 2009 - 9:02am | MelvixArtist Anne Karsten created this series of plush toys made from drawings by 4th and 5th grade students. Wonderful.
via Boing Boing.
Couple tries to eat on $72 a week budget
March 13, 2009 - 7:38am | MelvixThe story is pretty light on specifics (Were they successful? How long did the challenge last?) and in fact seems kind of phony, but I like the idea. I'm reasonably certain that our weekly food budget is not far off this mark, mainly because we stopped going out to eat all the time.
