Today has been an interesting day. I drove out to Riverside to pick up a parcel that the movers delivered to the wrong drop off point. A nice 122 mile, 3 hours journey. But it has the battery back up for my computer, which is kinda heavy, and the elevator is not working in my building. Apparently a fuse in the emergency light is blown, they don't make the part anymore, and the elevator won't work with out the emergency safety light. OK, so I'm not going to food shop without elevator. Not going to do laundry without elevator. And apparently the owner of the building is shifting management companies, and I didn't get word yet. Glad I didn't do billpay for rent, or head downtown to give the rent check. Apparently someone from the new company will be coming by today to let me know the new info.
Interesting, huh? OK, I should really do some cleaning/unpacking/housework. Maybe after I get something to eat. (What? Me? Procrastinate? Never!)
omnis, that sucks. I'm sorry.
Zenkitty, Persephone the cat is spending a week at my parents' house and then I may have a home for her. If not she could be yours along with many fine accessories.
Eh, on the whole, it's just a thing. If nothing else, it provides an *excellent* excuse to do nothing.
Omnis that does not sound like fun. But excuses to do nothing are good.
I was hesitant about Parker as a female dog's name until this moment when Zen's post reminded me of the most awesome Parker! D'oh! I'm only the one who had WWPD? as her tagline for most of the last year.
Parker Posey von Pilsner is kind of an awesome name aside from the part about Parker Posey herself, who I don't care about enough to name a dog after. Hmm...
You could claim she's named after Dorothy Parker.
That was pretty much the Parker I was referring to sweetie. I'd drop the Posey von Pilsner part.
Still not sure that's her name though, still mulling it over.
Ugh. Worst day of the trip yet. Woke up in Siena, and packed up to get on a plane and fly to Paris, meet up with step-mom in Charles de Gaulle airport, and fly to London. Dad and step-mom will be staying here for another few weeks, while I will be getting on a plane back to the states on Friday.
So today involved a lot of travel, which made everyone a little cranky.
Then we got to London (which is a beautiful city, by the way.... just wanted to throw that out there ahead of time).
Well over half the people we've run into or interacted with in London have been rude, unpleasant, and downright hostile towards us, making us in turn kind of hostile towards each other. No one has expressly said as much out loud, but I strongly suspect it's because we're USians.
This is a complete and utter 180 from everyone we met in Italy, and the few Parisians we had contact with on our way through CDG airport. I'm now wishing we'd come to London first, as it's threatening to crap all over my otherwise wonderful vacation.
London is pretty, but has been rather unwelcoming. Maybe after some sleep, Londoners will be nicer.
Tomorrow, I get one day of walking around London, maybe seeing a sight or two, then it's a performance of War Horse on the West End in the evening, and then a loooooong plane flight on Friday.
Honestly, I don't think she's a Parker. She might be a Cali (because she's a Cali girl!) or a Penny (faithful, patient waiting for her family like Penelope).
