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[da]

Big kudos to persephoneplace for offering to mail a package for me when she crosses the border into Michigan tomorrow. This means the second half of my Christmas present to dan's father (the homemade half) will arrive on or around New Year's Day, just as his parents return home from a trip to Florida, rather than the following week. To make things easier so she doesn't have to stand in a post-office line, I worked out the USPS online postage-printing tool and printed off a Priority Mail label. If I lived in the US I'd probably use it for all my shipping; it was easier to use than the program I downloaded for the same function last week.

The USPS require the zip-code from where it's being shipped, and a credit-card with a US address, neither of which I had, but I fudged both.

Also kudos to my wonderful sweetie for pointing out that since my package is more than one pound, I can't just ask persephoneplace to drop it in any old mailbox. As he pointed out, I've not lived in the US since 9/11/01, and he has. I sort of wonder what happens to >1lb. packages that get dropped in a mailbox; do they bury them at sea, or return them to sender, or subject them to a fine in delayed delivery and further inspection?

Anyhow, I'm happy to be done with this.

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

They do indeed!

I'm not a quilter, but two years ago I wrote a computer program to make nine-block patterns. (here's the first bit of what I wrote). Eventually, the program turned into a Christmas present for melted_snowball's mother, who is a quilter: a large print of 1800 or so non-repeating nine-block patterns.

That was roughly the same time that I started my livejournal, and I decided to use quilt squares for all of my icons. I still use them occasionally, for old time's sake. :)