Bwahaha. Thanks for the laugh. Canada Post sucks donkey balls. The only good thing about them is that I’m occasionally pleasantly surprised when mail actually arrives.
My sister has been asking for a specific book, J’Aime Paris, for a couple of years when asked for birthday/Christmas gift ideas. It is, unfortunately, out of print, and prices for the occasional copy offered on eBay are grossly inflated. Earlier this year I found it listed for sale on Barnes and Noble for a semi-reasonable price, and ordered it.
It was being sold by one of their resellers, and I ordered it and received a shipping date confirmation from B&N. After waiting for six weeks with no book in sight (and thinking maybe it had been held up crossing the border), I contacted said reseller to see if they could provide a status update. Oh, they said, we don’t actually have that book in stock - we’ll process a refund.
A few weeks ago, I found it listed again, being sold by a different one of their resellers, and again I ordered it and received a shipping date confirmation from B&N. A week later, I decided to be proactive and contacted the new reseller to see if they could confirm that it had been shipped on the promised date. Oh, they said, we don’t actually have that book in stock - we’ll process a refund.
I don’t think I’ll be ordering anything from Barnes and Noble again. 
Bookkeeper, did you try Amazon? They have a couple of books by that name, at a good price. Go look if you haven’t already.
Dear Residents of the apartment complex next door: The red curbs on either side of my driveway? Those red curbs mean NO PARKING. You see, when you park in those NO PARKING zones, I can’t see shit when I’m trying to pull out of the driveway. So I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t park in the red-curbed NO PARKING zones anymore. Thanks!
Oh, and by the way, turning on your safety blinkers does not magically turn a red curb into a green or yellow curb…it’s still a NO PARKING zone.
I’m looking for the culinary guide book by Alain Ducasse. Amazon.ca prices range from $100 CDN for a used paperback edition to $1000 CDN from one optimistic reseller. Barnes & Noble listed it at $60 CDN (only twice the original cover price) for a purported new hardcover. (Amazon.com has three copies listed at $1,800 US. :eek: )
I got my X Ray results back. The reason my right shoulder is hurting is because the AC joint in my shoulder is degenerating. Lovely.
My husband is a healthy, upright male. Why he whines about not having “his” creamer" in the fridge or “his” bagels or “his” whatever just floors me considering that the supermarket is less than a mile from our house. He works from home and gives himself breaks of 10 minutes or less. I think it’s because he’s afraid he’ll miss something.
It’s called SHOPPING, buddy. Try it sometime. Meanwhile I’ll be at work. If you SHOP for “your” stuff you’ll be happy and I’ll be happy that I won’t have to hear you whining until you run out of something,
I’ve had to break down and take oral steroids for my asthma, which means that last night, I peed every hour on the hour, almost to the minute. Also, I woke up with my knee hurting worse than when I went to bed. Extra mileage from the walk to pee? How can it hurt MORE when I’m taking steroids, which I get injected to make it hurt less?
My body disproves Intelligent Design.
Crap. I have to pee again.
Good grief!
Tell her it’s for her Christmas present…for forever. 
Abebooks has copies for around 16 dollars.
According to half the locals round here, turning those on means it’s fine to leave the car completely blocking a narrow residential street while you unload shopping, chat with a friend and have a cup of tea.
It’s weird, the ones on my car don’t seem to work that way, maybe I should check with my mechanic.
Screw off, allergies - I am thoroughly sick of you! Breakfast this morning before ballet class was coffee (with heavy whipping cream) and two generic Benedryl, because otherwise I’d be sneezing or otherwise unable to breathe, which is frowned upon in ballet class and other public places. I keep store brand Benedryl in my purse, my desk drawer at work, my tote bag and my bathroom medicine chest. If they ever discontinue that stuff I’m in trouble. I am really sick of starting the day reaching for the nearest bottle of Benedryl, while sneezing, sniffling, coughing and occasionally projectile vomiting when the coughing goes on for too long. And it’s December now, what’s it going to be like in the spring? Ah-choo!
Oh I hear you, Hey Hey Paula. I have all the same symptoms, PLUS hives. Mostly the hives are from food allergies, primarily wheat, but also dust and grass and so forth contribute. If Benedryl ever got discontinued I would probably commit suicide. Does Benedryl make you sleepy? Me, it sometimes makes me sleepy and (randomly) sometimes wires me up so I can’t sleep. Sweet!
I don’t get sleepy from Benedryl, and occasionally I’ll get that “wired” feeling. I envy folks who can use generic Benedryl as a sleep aid!
I get wired too.
Hey Hey Paula and katyT, you can get children’s liquid Benadryl, which works faster. It’s great for AM relief.
I don’t think I’m ever going to Costco again. Their business model seems to be to place stores sparsely in enormous markets, so the stores are ALWAYS a total fucking zoo.
I’m sure that saves them a lot on overhead, but it makes going there a sheer misery. Getting into the parking lot–parking–getting into the store–getting around the store–checking out–getting back to your car–getting out of the parking lot. Every goddamned step of the process is a huge clusterfuck, and because the store is so busy, you can’t even browse.
We’ve tried some of their Kirkland stuff and found none of it special enough to justify the hassle. So bye-bye, Costco membership. You made my life worse, not better.
Flying from San Diego to San Francisco today. Flight scheduled for 2.50 p.m.
Text message from Southwest this morning: Flight delayed until 7.30 p.m. OK, these things happen.
Text a bit later: Flight delayed until 9.30 p.m.
Sit down, relax a bit, have lunch. At 2.30, made a cup of tea, and settled down to read the news.
Another text: Flight now departing at 4.20 p.m.
Crap! Frantically grab our stuff, call our friend who was giving us a ride, and pile into the car.
Hit the freeway on-ramp. Another text.
Flight cancelled.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
Turned around, came back home. Of course, the code they gave me to use for rebooking online didn’t work, so I had to wait on the phone for a live person. He listened to me rant for a bit, and kindly rebooked us on another flight at 9.00 tonight. Fingers crossed.
Hope it all goes well from here on out. I hate holiday travel. Won’t do it.
Actually, i don’t think it’s a product of the holidays. The planes themselves don’t seem to be overbooked. When i called to rebook, i had a choice of two or three flights from SAN to SFO this evening.
The main problem today has been a weather and wind issue in San Francisco, and the FAA’s Flight Delay website has been advising all day about delays into SFO, averaging about three hours, due to weather.
Doesn’t quite explain, though, why a plane went from a 9.30 p.m. departure to a 4.20 p.m. departure to cancelled altogether, within the space of about 20 minutes.
Still raining steadily here in SF, but I don’t know why a little rain should cause so many flight delays. It’s not particularly windy or otherwise bad for planes.