Every so often I get in a particular mood:
July 30, 2009
[REDACTED], [REDACTED], The Distinguished Gentlemen of the [REDACTED] Mailing List
US Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20375
To whom it may concern:
I'm planning to leave around 3 today.
I guess that is all.
It just seemed like I needed to write some more since I
included a salutation in the email. Maybe I should take it
out and then remove all of this extraneous text. Or maybe I
should go all the way to the other extreme and include
addresses & dates for a true formal letter like I learned in
high school business class.
It's been a long time since I've done a true formal letter
format, so I guess I'll go that way. I should probably
update the conversational, string-of-thought style of the
text as well. I guess I won't go that far, though. Take
that, high school!
Well, I guess I'll go ahead and update the salutation. It
used to say 'Hello All.' On a side note, does anyone else
loathe putting punctuation marks inside of quotes? I really
think that "'Hello All'." would look much better. Stupid
english! Also, please note that I have left the requisite
four lines after my 'Complimentary Close'. See? Doesn't that
look better? On another side note, I didn't know what to
call the 'Complimentary Close', so I did some Googling and
found a page on formal business letter formats.
Sincerely,
Benjamin N Rasmussen
Linux Admin of No Note
US Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20375
Also, you can't tell here on the blog, but there were appropriate margins in the email.
