That reminds me. USPS has had Bob's gift located in Jersey City since Friday. I CAN SEE JERSEY CITY FROM HERE. Amazon refuses to understand that this is three days later that "3-5 business days" and wants me to wait a few days to see if it gets magically delivered, even though USPS somehow misrouted it but cannot seem to reroute it. Their tracking sucks. AUGH!
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Feb 22, 2007 1:09:34 pm PST #3042 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Daisy Jane - Feb 22, 2007 1:11:45 pm PST #3043 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Their tracking sucks. AUGH!
Oh yeah. USPS tracking seems to be mostly, "Uhm, it left."
Kathy A - Feb 22, 2007 1:13:25 pm PST #3044 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I had ordered some clothes last month that I ended up using the tracking number to see where the hell they were. USPS had delivered them from Virginia to Bolingbrook, IL, but then they sat in the Bolingbrook post office for six days before being sent to me. I have no idea what the hold-up was.
bon bon - Feb 22, 2007 1:15:39 pm PST #3045 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oh yeah. USPS tracking seems to be mostly, "Uhm, it left."
Mine was tracked by:
Feb 12: we heard you had a package!
Feb. 16: the package is in New Jersey!
Feb. 20: this package didn't cross the fricking river in the last four days, we don't know why, but we're trying.
Feb 22: Oh, that's right. NOTHING!
Why even have tracking if you can't tell me shit.
Actually, this is a cut and paste from the tracking website:
Mis-Shipped, February 20, 2007, 10:19 am
Enroute, February 16, 2007, 7:03 pm, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07097
Electronic Shipping Info Received, February 12, 2007
Mis-fucking-shipped. OK, now I'm getting pissed off again. Time to write an angry email to Amazon. No matter what Joel said, their excuses were complete bullshit not at all addressed to the problem of this package being MISSING!
Jessica - Feb 22, 2007 1:16:45 pm PST #3046 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Every now and then, a package from our UK office will get missorted and sent through the import office in KY instead of NJ, which is at least a 1 day delay. Somehow, our clients always assume that saying "but I needed it TODAY!!!!" will magically allow us to retrieve packages from a UPS warehouse halfway across the country using only the power of our minds. Because, you know, we totally sent it there on purpose to fuck with them.
JZ - Feb 22, 2007 1:21:00 pm PST #3047 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Man, now I'm feeling all guilty that the one time I've ever had a call from a collections person, she was nice and kind and fixed everything right away. It was a phone bill from Pac Bell, which kept sending late notices to me at a nonexistent address despite multiple attempts by me to correct them; finally they killed my phone, and I called and told them to keep it dead and just to send me a final bill. Which went to the nonexistent address, and thence to collections.
When the collections woman called (at work, WTF?) and I told her, again, that I'd never gotten a single bill in the year since this kerfuffle started, she said, "Well, let's just confirm your address. You live at 2042 Dwight Way in Oakland...Hey, there's no Dwight Way in Oakland! Dwight Way's in Berkeley! We can't handle this, it has to go back to Pac Bell. They screwed up, it's their problem. I'll make sure there are no late fees or penalties on this for you, okay?" I almost cried. And I can't believe I was such an ass as not to get her name so I could track down her supervisor and praise her to the skies. Unless that would have just drawn attention to her and gotten her fired.
Gudanov - Feb 22, 2007 1:25:03 pm PST #3048 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
All the customer service talk reminds me to ping Seagate about my returned drive. Last I heard they got the bad drive two weeks ago, after about a month long process of getting a RMA number. It has been a bit of a fiasco.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2007 1:44:51 pm PST #3049 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've just found seven million (okay, more like two fifty) pictures of Gina Torres. My brain is in a dazed but happy place. Provocateuse updates to follow.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 22, 2007 2:02:11 pm PST #3050 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
OMG. Stupid appliances. So, the gas oven doesn't turn on. The gas stovetop burners are working. The electric clock is on and the oven light works. So, you know, pilot lighting time. But there's not a pilot looking thing, just... wires. WTFF? Any clues?
ChiKat - Feb 22, 2007 2:20:08 pm PST #3051 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
So, you know, pilot lighting time. But there's not a pilot looking thing, just... wires. WTFF? Any clues?
I've been very random about lighting my pilot light for my oven. There's a pipe looking thing way in the back of the broiler area. I just stick my arm way back there with my stick lighter and it always catches. So far, no injuries. But, if someone has a better way than random chance, I'd love to hear it!