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[susandennis]

I see the snow is melting at both joyofmacs and estis's. According to our news they each had many feet of snow. But judging from the level of melting I'm thinking that our news may have exaggerated just a hair.

My friend, Jeanie, has a birthday on Dec. 31. Doesn't that suck? Anyway, I always try to pop her a little something into the mail (she lives in Mississippi) the day after Christmas. Today I boxed up my little offering and went to the post office. It was totally empty. No people getting stuff out of their boxes, no line waiting for stamps, nobody even selling stamps. It was funny. I stood at the counter for a while just kind of soaking up the nobody-ness and then hollared out Ho Ho Ho! Pretty soon I hear from the back the voice of one of my favorite post office people 'Oh, no! They're back!!!' It cracked me up.

I was looking at the TV lineup for the next week and a half... abismal. So I reopened my Netflix account. I closed it last Summer because they just couldn't get stuff to me in a timely fashion but they have opened up a warehouse here and one of the guys here says that it is better. We shall see. I have no qualms about watching my 3 movies and then closing the account again.

henaresays he buys all of his. And I thought about that - buy them used, then sell them used. I don't want or need to hang on to any of them for any reason. But, I couldn't find the ones I wanted cheap enough. So we'll try renting again...

Work is fine. I actually did get a big deal done this morning. The company intranet was a mess. The bitch that runs it (er, that would be me) had gotten pretty sloppy about folders and test pages and databases and stuff so I backed it up to a couple of different palces and cleaned it all out, squeaky... It's a lean mean intranet now, baby! And best I can tell, I didn't fuck anything up either.

My Mom got home from my brother's. She reports a fine time was had and now she's exhausted. I had forgotten to worry about her so it's a good thing she didn't need it.

Comments

[estis.livejournal.com]

the big snow missed us by a few miles...only got about 4 inches total here. next time the big one for sure...

Netflix

[spiritgirl.livejournal.com]

I am trialing Netflix now. I wasn't sure how long it would take to get here and I wanted them for Christmas so I ordered on the 18th. They were shipped out that night and arrived the next day! They were shipped from Duluth, on the other side of Atlanta. We'll see how returning goes and turn around for others.

Re: Netflix

[susandennis]

The problem I ran into last Summer was that I would mail in my old movie on Monday and it would take anywhere from 7 to 10 days to get the next one. Not good. The word on the street is that it's better now. However, so far, I'm not convinced. It's been now more than 12 hours since I ordered and they haven't moved from the rental queue to the shipping yet. No biggie. I'll cancel if they don't hop to.

Re: Netflix

[spiritgirl.livejournal.com]

Wal-Mart (http://www.wal-mart.com) is also offering the same service for like $18.86. Might be worth a free trial as well to see how they compare.

Re: Netflix

[susandennis]

Interesting... there appears to be nothing about this on their website so it must be an in-store thing. Sadly, our nearest Walmart is 45 minutes away. The closest video store of any kind is too far to be convenient since I rarely get into the car.

Re: Netflix

[spiritgirl.livejournal.com]

Try this link http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=5430&dept=5430&path=0%3A5430

I saw it on the main page under movies...DVDs then DVD rentals....doesn't seem to say their are limited geographically.

Thanks!!!

[susandennis]

Wow. They sure have that hidden!! Thanks so much. I signed up for their free month but I had a hard time finding three movies that were available now. Everything I wanted was a 'long wait'. But, heck for a free trial - sure! Thanks so much!!