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What about business cards?
Dear Annie: While clear- impression that can help some-
ing out my desk and bookshelf one remember you even if he or
for some late spring-cleaning, I she loses your card. And making
came across a few business cards an impression is what old-fash-
from folks I, at one time, thought ioned, technically-no-longer-nec-
I would definitely need or want essary niceties are all about. It’s
to stay in contact with. But I hav- why it’s still advisable to send a
handwritten thank-you
en’t thought about them
DEAR
note after a job interview
since their cards got lost
even though you could
in the shuffle. This got me
ANNIE
just send an email. When
thinking: How important
you give out your card to
or valuable are business
people, just be sure to get
cards these days?
their contact info, too, so
In my experience as a
you can follow up online.
young professional, there
Dozens of print com-
are two things I know for
panies now offer business
certain about how things
Lane
cards that are recycled,
are done these days: It’s Annie
Creators
Syndicate
Inc.
recyclable, biodegradable
all about whom you know,
— even seeded, mean-
and a lot of networking
happens online, whether through ing your new contact can bury
LinkedIn or email. Don’t get me the card in the yard and, in a
wrong; I enjoy handing my card few months, have tomatoes. Talk
out to people I meet (especially a about a lasting impression.
Dear Annie: I’m a pre-veter-
cute guy at a bar). It makes me feel
confident and reputable. (Can you inary student. When I came back
say “adulting”?) But is the move to campus this fall, my apartment
refreshing and old-school, or is it complex was overrun with cats.
a waste of paper that will get stuck I recognized one that belonged
between a pile of receipts and to a neighbor who graduated and
moved out last May. I took the cat
valet stubs? — Clever or Never?
Dear Clever or Never: In an to an animal shelter that I worked
age of all-digital everything, I with in the past. But the people
find business cards refreshingly there turned down the cat and said
old-school. They make a good accepting stray animals isn’t in
their mission statement. They told
me to just spay the cat and turn her
loose.
The vet wanted $395 to spay
her, which I couldn’t afford. My
friends said euthanasia is mur-
der, but none would help pay for
spaying her. I couldn’t keep her
because my lease doesn’t allow
pets. And I couldn’t just set her
loose, because she would inevi-
tably end up having more kittens.
Stray cats often end up contract-
ing diseases, being hit by cars or
suffering other painful fates.
The only compassionate
option left was euthanasia. It cost
$50, much less than spaying her.
After I took her to the vet, I lied to
my friends and said I had dumped
her in the country.
I want to beg college students
everywhere not to get kittens.
When summer comes, they just
get dumped on the streets. Then
someone like me will catch the
abandoned cats, have to pay to
have them euthanized and then
live forever with that shame. —
Ashamed in Idaho
Dear Ashamed: I, too, implore
students to take animal adoption
seriously. When you take that
furry friend home, it’s meant to be
forever, not for a semester.
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017
TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you have to
convince yourself that you’re right, you’re
either A) not or B) oppressed. It is possible
that others have squashed your spirit with
their own agenda, thus causing you to doubt
yourself.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You will get
what was promised, but not when it was
promised — or maybe it will be the other
way around. Hold people to their word. Ac-
countability is the core of human decency.
es: The world is suddenly crisp and clear.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Just because
you’ve given doesn’t mean you must now
give in perpetuity. Those who try to hook you
into an endless cycle are repellent to you.
You’d rather just solve a problem and be
done with it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). To avoid
invoking the envy of your peers, maybe it’s
better if you keep your hyper-production on
the down-low now.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Do what you
can. Take responsibility where it’s conve-
nient. You wouldn’t believe the burden you
might take from another person’s shoulders
by volunteering to do something that will be
very easy and enjoyable for you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). People
who make decisions based strictly on how
they feel may worry you, but no more than
those who decide strictly based on research,
spreadsheets and cost comparisons. As for
you, you’ll do a little of both ways.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re aware
of the needs of others, the opportunities
that are out there and the ways in which you
might serve them. But mostly, you’re aware
of who you are. That’s the piece that makes
it all come together.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). No one is
handed initiative. Initiative is something you
have to take. What you do is really second-
ary today. The impact is created in how and
why you do it. A power move is a move that’s
initiated by you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). What if you were
never able to change your flaws? What
then? Then you’d be forced to accept and
make the most of it all. So start there. At
this point it’s a more powerful position than
wishing for a change.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Ruled by Nep-
tune, the dream king, Pisces need to dream
like a fish needs water. New inspiration will
help you fulfill that need today. Blow out the
limits.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Social dynam-
ics are tricky now. There is such a thing as
playing it too cool. People want to know that
you care enough to make an effort, but not
that you’re trying too hard.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The blurred
borders and fuzzy edges that led to so much
confusion will come together in a snap. It will
be like getting the perfect prescription glass-
FRANK AND ERNEST
BLONDIE
THATABABY
SALLY FORTH
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
B.C.
LOLA
DILBERT
SIX CHIX
BIZARRO
MUTTS
NON SEQUITUR
BABY BLUES
WIZARD OF ID
ZITS
ROSE IS ROSE
TOMORROW’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 6). You’ll
be the spark that brings a project to life.
Soon many will be involved, and many more
will be affected by the beautiful and useful
thing you started. Family will grow. Your heart
opens in new ways because of who comes
into it next month. There’s a move in March
that will require you to get more education.
Pisces and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 12, 38, 41, 16 and 9.