by CJ | Dec 17, 2013 | Journal
…sent us the wrong frickin’ order. For what I think is the third time. One bottle exploded from cold. The others are frozen. We don’t know what might happen with the ones that have to thaw. On the phone front, it WAS the wall connector, which...
by CJ | Dec 16, 2013 | Journal
We made an order to Soda Stream somewhere back in … September, I think it was. Order arrives: damaged. Sent back. Replacement order arrives: damaged. Sent back. Third try: we get a notification via tracking that it was delivered ‘to the back door’...
by CJ | Dec 14, 2013 | Journal
China is now the third to reach another world-let.
by CJ | Dec 14, 2013 | Journal
The live shipment from an online critter supplier (invertebrates: tank cleaning crew) arrived badly packed and frozen and smelling to high heaven. The company was not only careless, shipping bags of live critters into the north in nothing but a cardboard box with a...
by CJ | Dec 13, 2013 | Journal
Just a little frosting. We could use some of the snow pack you guys to the south are getting…our sympathies to you. We live where snowplows exist and have a Plan for the event. We got with our accountant by phone yesterday and finally have the healthcare thing...
by CJ | Dec 13, 2013 | Journal
Just a little frosting. We could use some of the snow pack you guys to the south are getting…our sympathies to you. We live where snowplows exist and have a Plan for the event. We got with our accountant by phone yesterday and finally have the healthcare thing...
by CJ | Dec 11, 2013 | Journal
Started it off by getting the blood test I’m required to get quarterly (thyroid doc) a month late because of the crud… That went pretty well. I’ve only had this car since July and I’m finally learning how to work the lights…(getting there...
by CJ | Dec 10, 2013 | Journal
and Jane FINALLY (see the epic 6.5 hour struggle with Comcast…) got the new router set up. It wasn’t glitchless, but we got it. Jane got it. Neither she nor I is as energetic as we wish, but hey, the router does work. Yesterday she got mulch for the new...
by CJ | Dec 6, 2013 | Journal
You are the first to know… 10% off all e-books and physical books until Jan 1. Free domestic shipping on all physical books until Jan 1. Foreign shipping discounted until Jan 1. [The foreign shipping discount is equal to the free domestic shipping, somewhere...
by CJ | Dec 5, 2013 | Journal
Sei is not the brightest light in catdom…so he’d have you think. Shu is. And you should be afraid…be terribly afraid. The morning and nightly routine involves the payoff: kitty treats. PM, I call Sei, who always ‘loses it’ [oh, look, a...
by CJ | Dec 3, 2013 | Journal
And the pond is really, really frozen. Yesterday our two scoundrel fish-raiding cats (because of whom we have had to net the pond) were out there near the pond heater hole in the ice, and the ice was cracking under them—I watched them the entire time, really not...
by CJ | Dec 2, 2013 | Journal
As in 7 and 8. Coldest it’s been in 3-4 years. Jane’s out tending to some shopping and getting a strand of lights to replace the dead one for the ‘woodland tree’, a little tree we hang all our wild-animal motif things on: it has frosted little...
