I Think

I don't see Hannity or The Daily Show. I have to rely on second hand information.

There is a bogus Home Depot account with my name on it. They were able to get a card using a different SS number and they gave my work number for a home phone. I learned of it, yesterday. Home Depot began calling for me, repeatedly, beginning day before yesterday. I took the number Home Depot left and gave them a call. They were able to find my old, discontinued account, based on my personal information, but the woman I spoke with could not find anything current. To get more information, I will have to receive one of the calls to the job. It does no good to offer them my personal number and they refused to take it. I know I am not liable, but it would be great to know who the criminal is. It has to be somebody that knows me through my job. They also have to be close enough to know my first name, since most people at work know me by my middle name.

Now that's annoying.

It almost has to be somebody I know or have known.

Seems so.

I would narrow that to someone you've worked with...

You could be right, rock.

I don't know if it would be wise or quite dumb plus ill advised by soc. sec., to bring it to home depot, but do you have your social security card? I ask re talking to the credit manager at the local place. Or what.. talk to the credit card company? (Don't remember if you said you'd done that already). Don't trust me on all this, just thinking out loud.

They used the last four digits of my SS number and tracked me to my inactive account of perhaps 15 years ago. But there was nothing new. Which is evidence that the crook signed with his own or a bogus SS number.

The slate is clear to begin new writing projects. I feel rather drained and aimless. Probably going to work at short story writing, soon.

I can think of an ex employee that is not above stealing credit cards and anything else he can get his hands on. But he has been gone about seven years. He took advantage of his free access to the keys and stole money out of a number of apartments. We learned, after the fact, that he had a reputation for stealing, among ex coworkers, from earlier jobs. Two other prospects are not honest, but it does not seem a thing they would try.

Short story length: 1,500 - 30,000 words - Writers Digest
Short stories have no set length. - Wikipedia

Classification Word count
Novel over 40,000 words
Novella 17,500 to 40,000 words
Novelette 7,500 to 17,500 words
Short story under 7,500 words - again, Wikipedia

Flash Fiction (100 - 1,000 words): This is the type of short-short story you would expect to find in a glossy magazine, often used to fill one page of quick romance (or quick humor, in men's mags) Very popular, quick and easy to write, and easier to sell!

Short Story (1,000 - 7,500 words): The 'regular' short story, usually found in periodicals or anthology collections. Most 'genre' zines will features works at this length.

Novellette (7,500 - 20,000 words): Often a novellette-length work is difficult to sell to a publisher. It is considered too long for most publishers to insert comfortably into a magazine, yet too short for a novel. Generally, authors will piece together three or four novellette-length works into a compilation novel.

Novella (20,000 - 50,000 words): Although most print publishers will balk at printing a novel this short, this is almost perfect for the electronic publishing market length. The online audience doesn't always have the time or the patience to sit through a 100,000 word novel. Alternatively, this is an acceptable length for a short work of non-fiction.

Novel (50,000 -110,000 words): Most print publishers prefer a minimum word count of around 70,000 words for a first novel, and some even hesitate for any work shorter than 80,000. Yet any piece of fiction climbing over the 110,000 word mark also tends to give editors some pause. They need to be sure they can produce a product that won't over-extend their budget, but still be enticing enough to readers to be saleable. Imagine paying good money for a book less than a quarter-inch thick?

Epics and Sequels (Over 110,000 words): If your story extends too far over the 110,000 mark, - Writing-World.com

• Under 1000: Flash fiction, or “short short” stories
• 1,000-7,500: Short story
• 7,500-20,000: Novelette
• 20,000-50,000: Novella
• Over 50,000: Novel - Yo Expert

I have been refreshing on this and other aspects of writing short fiction.

I tried writing a few short stories in my younger years but they were all rejected, so I didn't bother any more because I didn't like being at the mercy of dickhead publishers..

Rocky is already not handling the heat well. He spends lots of time with his head over air vents.

Work day. I don't wanna go. But I will. It's our first day that will get in the ninety degrees. Which is not why I want to stay home. I just don't enjoy that type of activity much anymore.

Well stay home you wimp!
Jesus said - "The work God requires is to believe in the one he has sent" (John 6:28 )
So take the day off, put your feet up and tend to your spiritual welfare..

.... Especially when the cards are stacked against you 'cause owners/mgmt. allow or are unaware of replacements mistakes/shortcuts making things harder to fix right.

I like these two guys. Its just that they think differently than I.The worst thing about them is their reluctance to part with crap. If an electronic part looks good, they save it in with the new ones. I blame the bosses as well, because they question every nickle they spend. It makes them fear to be caught with no parts. (The damn junk just makes a job impossible to complete, men.)

I hear 'ya. I live in an apartment complex here in Sarasota and that same dynamic applies. I doubt they know if they have a new part or an old one when they replace (those capacitors seem to need changing way too frequently). I wonder how it is that my a/c has had about 5 problems in 4 yrs.

The A/Cs work too hard to use old parts on them. When I was in charge, I threw away any part that seemed old, even if there was a chance it could be new. - The A/Cs on our property very often are low on freon when the capacitor blows.

yup. That's what we've been telling each other and the maintenance guys. So when they spot a small leak, they try to cheapskate the problem but adding more freon./refrigerant instead of repairing the leak. LOL