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Saturday, December 30, 2000
Happy Holidays to you all; figured I'd better get one more entry in here for December and the year 2000. It's taken this long since we now have this horrendous line noise problem keeping the dialin connection from happening at anything resembling quickness.
Thursday, December 14, 2000
dwinn v. Amazon.com So I haven't gotten my order which I'd placed with Amazon back on the 8th yet. All of the items in the order said "will ship in 24 hours" save one that said "will ship in 2-3 days." When I went to track my order on the web site, the order still said "will ship in 2-3 days" even though it had been a week, and the projected arrival date was after Christmas. Now, in order to take advantage of their free shipping offer, I had to designate that the whole order ship at once. All of the rest of the items are ready to go save the 2-3 days one. So I decide to bite the bullet and have them ship the items that are ready to go, costing me the price of the shipping that had been free. Not happy with this, but it's not too much dough, and I'd rather have 90 percent of the order than none. So when I get to work today, I check the status of the order. Surprise! FE-CES. Now ALL of the items say "On hand -- shipping soon!" and that the projected arrival date was *before* Christmas. If those items do not show up on time, I'll presonally have Jeff Bezos castrated. Tuesday, December 12, 2000
It's going on 3am here, and my guess is that it'll be another couple of hours before I can sleep. The blizzard is still raging outside -- getting to and from work yesterday was a task in itself, and I'm harboring a secret wish that my boss calls tomorrow and tells me to stay home. I'm not looking forward to getting up for my early day even eariler than usual to dig out my truck and pray I don't get stuck somewhere or get hit by an idiot. I should go down in the basement to ride the stationary bike, but I have no motivation to, and haven't for the last two weeks after realizing that the last two months of riding and watching my fat intake haven't seem to make much difference in my health. I've got a doctor's appointment next week -- maybe there's something other he can do for than "Try walking 20 minutes every day." Most of the Christmas shopping is done, or waiting to be shipped here. I think a few people I"m giving stuff to will be genuinely pleased and surprised, which I think is the goal. One of those things where the person you give to is totally stupified or caught up in emotion in surprise or delight. I accidentally cut one of Grapefruit's claws too close the other day, and she bled like a stuck pig. She harbors no resent, though, as she's happily purring and butting my free hand as I try to type. I guess I hadn't realized it until recently, but I now can say for certain that professional football is my favorite sport. I find myself looking to watch 3 to 4 games a weekend -- and it's not just trying to follow any particular team. In fact, I couldn't name my favorite NFL team. I'm actually planning on taking a couple of Sundays in January off for playoffs and the Super Bowl. Baseball's speed and the malaise of outrageous salaries turns me off, and I just can't find the passion for hockey or basketball as I did when I was younger, since most of the regular season games are meaningless. Football, however, plays sixteen regular season games and it looks like this year you'll have to win ten of those to get into the playoffs. Chris Meono and I argue on the point that college football is a purer game than the NFL, since college is amateur athletics and the players are not spoiled by money. Maybe, but you can also predict with pretty good certainty which schools will be in the hunt for the NCAA national championship and who will not. Same thing with college basketball -- although I think we both agree that the Final Four College Basketball tournament is a sweet setup. I'll be looking to take off the Thursday and Friday that that tourney gets underway in March -- sixteen games, all day, the big upset just waiting to happen. If there is any kind of regular audience, I hope this new model of more detailed, delving dairy-like posting is more to your liking than just the usual wacky links 'n blurbs from before. (Not that they'll go away...) Monday, December 04, 2000
Interesting... the problem seemed to clear itself up when I ran the archive option again. Never mind.
For some reason, on my Archive page, October's link does not show up. Not the one on the left, in the border, but the numeric date link, just like the one for November now. If anyone knows how to fix this, let me know. You can get to the October archives by clicking the link to the left. |
