Oddly enough I am having the same issue with a package that seems to have been stuck at San Pueblo for several days. UPS says that the reason for the delay is that the “Package is still on the trailer”.
I wonder if something has gone wrong at the San Pueblo UPS facility?
I had a package that was shipped by FedEx SmartPost (which was stupid as FedEx will deliver to my house, I’ve seen them do it) that took an interesting journey. It arrived at the local post office about a block and a half from my house at about 2pm on a Tuesday, it then departed the local post office at about 4 pm. It then went to St. Paul, MN which is several miles to the east. It sat there for a day or two, then went to Sioux Falls which is still a ways south and east, but a lot closer. It then went to Huron, SD which is about 50 miles to the west before finally coming back to the local post office. I finally got it on Friday when I should have received it on Wednesday at the latest.
I went and asked via the customer chat thing in the UPS tracking site why my package was sent from San Pablo (San Pueblo is a fictional town 
) to Vernon and all they could tell me was that it was necessary to expedite delivery. They could not, however, tell me just how moving my package 400 miles away from me would expedite delivery. So yeah, I’m guessing something went wrong in San Pablo, but they won’t say what.
Right. I thought that looked wrong. That’s what I get for trusting the spiel chucker.
If and only if this should happen would I change my surname? No idea really but it did cause an argument tonight! I’d like to think that modern life would allow a double barrel surname which means I won’t lose my family identify but also embrace my new family.
Or do you lose your own and start a new name? Tricky… 
not particularly rant but annoyed me none the less :(.
I would not change my name, no argument period. But that’s me and it’s a very personal decision. It’s never wrong to hyphenate, even hyphenate sometimes, and keep your business name for business only. Another solution I’ve heard for people who have kids is to give the husband’s last name to the boys and the wife’s last name to the girls.
Men who have a hangup over this need a baseball bat to the head. A “family name” is meaningless now anyway. Hey, he could change** his** name, or you could both pick an altogether new one to share. There are a LOT of really stupid last names out there, people should change them more often.
Tomorrow is another day… to see whether the Princess can outsmart some dirt and concrete. After more than a month at my home, it was time to make the 20-year-old do a job, and continue doing it until it’s done correctly. (Frankly, I usually don’t have the patience - I’ll just do it over again and be mad for a little while, because it’s easier. But I suspect that the Princess banks on that very reaction.) In this case, I needed someone to level a 10-foot square corner of the yard (sandy soil,) and lay 1-foot-square pavers in that level area.
He will try again tomorrow. So far, he’s done it three times, over the course of two days. I’ve dared anyone to go help him. It’s not a difficult job - tedious, to be sure, but not difficult. I’ve done the same thing, except that I had to deal with oak tree roots, not sand and grass, and I laid a 300-square-foot patio - in one day. At age 40, by myself. This should have been a 2-hour job for a fit and healthy 20-year-old, but he flatly refuses to evaluate his work as he goes, and correct his mistakes - if the paver isn’t even with the adjacent one, fix the problem before laying the next one!
He is currently angry at the ground, the cement pavers, the shovel, and me (not necessarily in that order.) Because of course, none of this is on him. But he wants to be treated as an adult, despite the fact that he takes no responsibility for anything, including his own actions.
Le sigh.
Well, Lacunae, this sounds to me exactly like what should be happening. He needs to be earning his keep, and doing whatever chore until he gets it right is fine. He needs something to be responsible for every day he’s under your roof, seeing as his mother (isn’t she there, too IIRC?) isn’t the one to build his character. With any luck, it’s not entirely too late.
Wax on, wax off, Grasshopper.
Congratulations, you live in a time of choice!
Which version sounds best?
(Disclaimer: my lastname is a three word, no hyphens, bitch that Hispanics find confusing and foreigners just impossible. I joke that I need to marry an Anglo called Smith so I can get something simpler, but if I ever did I imagine I’d keep the original for business purposes and go Smith for “civilian life involving foreigners”.)
I switched to my husband’s last name. I had no real attachment to my family of origin and found his a much less toxic bunch of people to be connected to. YMMV, and I think you should do what works for you, with some consideration given to your prospective spouse’s feelings on the matter. People with less direct involvement in the matter should just hush.
Oh, and I hereby miniPit EmilyG for giving me a month-long earworm!
falalalala lalalala…
TransportAtion strike in Italy…no Sicily for us this year. Tomorrow another strike. So off to Turin befoe it happens.
Mwa ha haaa! 
In the jungle
the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight…
Chimera, here’s a comic for you (and everyone else.)
So, people continue with their idiocy. It really is like the wild, wild west out here.
http://chpn.net/news/2014/12/12/a-reminder-to-lock-your-car-doors-video_38932/
This country would be in lots better shape if Obama would stop spending all his time urging people to refinance their mortgages or apply for reverse mortgages, and instead concentrate on the real issues confronting society.
We had one night of very heavy rain here in drought-stricken Los Angeles. I woke up yesterday morning to discover a huge tree had fallen over and crushed my “spare” (old car not yet donated or sold since purchase of new car last August). Apparently the ground became so over-saturated that the big heavy tree uprooted itself. :smack:
I still had comprehensive and collision coverage on the “spare” car since I was driving it every now and then. I’m pretty sure it’s going to be declared a total loss when the insurance inspector comes on Monday.
This is the third city-owned tree that has fallen on our property in the 12 years since we bought this house. I would like to pit the City of Los Angeles for not having enough budget to pre-emptively take down old dying trees, but rather waiting until they fall over and then sending the emergency crews to deal with the mess. And since they were city-owned trees, I could not pre-emptively pay a tree maintenance company to take them down myself, even if I wanted to. :mad:
If the tree had fallen the other direction it would have crushed my brand new car and damaged our house. I’m thankful for that at least.
Yeah, I know that your cute little ball of fluff will some day grow up to be a big dog, and I know that you want her to get socialized, but adult dogs sometimes play rough and will bowl over a pup without even noticing.
Our hounds weren’t involved, but a couple of BIG dogs were playing with each other and accidently ran over a puppy. I think its leg got badly sprained or possibly broken and the owner went ballistic on the BIG dog’s owners. It wasn’t the pup’s fault, it wasn’t the BIG dogs’ fault and none of them were being aggressive. It was an accident which was easily avoidable if the pup had been in the small dog area.
That would be why it was in MY head.
