FedEX fumbles again
So I was expecting a new office chair today and FedEX had it “on the vehicle for delivery” at 6:29 a.m. I anticipated an on-time delivery only to be disappointed yet again by the sub-par shipper.
At exactly 7:59 p.m. (one minute before they stop making deliveries) the driver logs “delivery exception” into the system. What makes it worse, is the holiday weekend puts the next possible delivery date on Tuesday night! I’m so mad, and the customer service rep provided no solution beyond offering, in his most sympathetic voice, “sorry the guy didn’t do his job”
I’m getting fed up with FedEx employees that don’t do their job.
I’ve lived this long without the chair. It is the shipper’s contentment with laziness and slacking standards that upsets me.
Penguin-enhanced, post-Christmas Fuzzycouch bonding
We can write in the third person: Guido and Troy got together today and shared holiday stories, watched “Napoleon Dynamite” outtakes, Star Wars fan film, and took odd photos. They ate Jantina’s fudge, Krispy Kreme donuts, pineapple pizza and assorted beverages (Guido’s favorite food). Troy received, from Guido, a Timex Sinclair 1000 computer, full user manual, RAM pack and three casette programs.
Xmas
Mostly a reminder to myself:
- acoustic guitar
- coffee maker w/ thermal carafe, reusable filter
- 180° earmuffs
- several Star Wars ornaments
- comic book bags and boards
- electronic measuring tape
- Star Wars book (Bre)
- gift certificate (Copper)
- Simpsons desk calendar (Shirley)
- Ale 8-1 (Shirley)
Xmas wishes
HAPPY XMAS CARD by A. Skwish.
THIS are not for the weak of stomach. More HERE under “Kringles.”
I was looking at the company Xmas card today and I found that of the 123 or so people who work at the same place I do, I don’t know about 84 of them.
Geeked out my stats
Check it
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Under “troy’s links” on the left I put my last 5 Halo 2 matches 🙂
I hacked up lastRSS.php (not pretty at all) to pull my Death/Kill ratio, team score, and the hyper link to the details from Bungie’s RSS feed.
One thing that bugged was that the stats were all in a generic “description” tag. So I had to further parse and make sense of the data. What’s worse, is they had silly formatting in the data fields, grrr.
JJ-C for you and me
The Journal-Courier site is all up now at http://www.journal-courier.net. I’m still looking for all the bugs, but that’s probably an neverending battle.
Played a little Speed Scrabble last night with Clay, Leslie, Julie and Bre over at Bre and Copper’s. Bre drew me for Secret Santa and gave me a sweet book of Star Wars illustrations from Dark Horse. … and I was told there are some Jones Sodas on the way, too.
The night before that (Monday) we were over at Clay and Leslie’s for a little wedding party, since they just got married Wednesday. There was a pretty good turnout and pretty good punch.
Copper’s on vacation this week and Larry’s leaving after today, so I’m planning to be stressed out some more this week. Maybe I should just camp out under my desk for the duration.
‘He’s in the house, stupid’
One of my coworkers’ relatives was killed about a week ago in Iraq. Peoria did this story.
We did a little gift shopping today then saw “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” (L.S.A.S.O.U.E.). I liked it quite a bit.
The most annoying thing about it is the same thing I didn’t like about Harry Potter movies. The kids tend to not say anything about what they know. It’s like in a slasher movie when you want to yell at the screen “He’s in the house, stupid!”
Though a bit busy, overall it was a fun adventure and great looking. Not sickeningly sweet. I really like the look of the kids cast as Violet and Klaus Baudelaire and their costuming and such. And the animation at the end was really nice.
Last work week before vacation!
Jantina and I had a good time in Albuquerque this week. Now we are finalizing Christmas details! I have all of my shopping done, tonight we have a party, and then on the 24th we fly to Illinois to celebrate with family!
‘FHA Hero’
Don’t EVEN get me started about leotards...
Over the last week or so I got caught up on “Superman,” “Superman/Batman,” “X-Men,” “X-Tatics,” and various singles (such as “Y: The Last Man” and “Green Lantern: Rebirth”).
New Journal-Courier site is accessible, but not always directly. Should be all up and ready over the weekend, I think.
I’m sure I’m gonna hit the 70-movie mark before the year’s up. But will I pass it? I don’t know. “Dawn of the Dead” made me pretty antsy last night. Horror and myself don’t get along all that well.
I caught a couple recent episodes of “Justice League Unlimited” this week. The two I saw were written by or stories by J.M. DeMattis and Warren Ellis. Comic writers whose work I often enjoy. Both were pretty good. I don’t think I could see the Warren Ellis-ness in his episode. Maybe a little bit.
Julie bought me a couple T’s today. “FHA Hero” and “Mexican skeletons riding bicycles.” Me likey.
The DSL is still working pretty well. It takes a surprisingly long time to connect when I do have to reconnect. I could probably use some suggestions on how to best set up the modem/router whatsit. I believe I turned its firewall on already and disabled the wireless feature (no hotspot at my house).
I haven’t tried to hook all the phones back in since last Saturday. That’s when I couldn’t connect and ended up ripping all the lines out of the box. We just have the downstairs phones working right now.
Troy got the new lazer tag index page all plugged in.
A J.P. a day
Happy B-day to J.P. today, wherever you are these days. I haven’t seen you on IM since you moved.
Belated Happy B-days to Josh (Dec. 5th) and Fuad (Nov. 4).
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