Sharing a sandwich
Sep. 5th, 2012 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisYesterday when Anita was here she looked out the terrace door and remarked on how close the workers seem now - "you could share a sandwich!!" Cracked me up. But, alas, today they are starting on the next floor up and our sandwich days are coming to a close.
My cat/human ecosystem is askew. Travis has a cold or something. He's sneezey and mopey and not getting into the bed with me until nearly morning. So Betty's got a clear shot at the bed and she's taking it.
It seems like all my friends who have 2 children have 1 who kicks and wiggles and is a terror to sleep with and the other who is a snuggly log. Travis is a snuggly log. Betty pokes and bats my face and crawls all over me and then settles in for a good minute and a half and repeats the whole routine. I think I finally really got to sleep last night about 3 a.m. When I woke up Betty was gone and Travis was snuggled up next to me.
I hope he feels better soon. I did not realize the ecosystem balance was so delicate.
Amazon fucked up another delivery. They use a west coast outfit called OnTrac for a fair number of their deliveries. When OnTrac delivers a package on time and correctly, it's a total accident. I've bitched an moaned an whined and yelled. They are doing fewer and fewer deliveries with UPS and FedEx doing more but still, they are the shortest straw you can draw in the Amazon delivery game.
As usual, I complain to Amazon and they send a perfectly lovely, not at all canned, reply and make it right. They are replacing the order immediately with overnight delivery which means I'll get it tomorrow instead of yesterday which isn't horrible but is exactly when I would have gotten it had I not had a Prime membership. My membership is up at the end of this month. I see no need or benefit to renewing. And I can use the $80 for something fun.
Swimming was fun again today. I saw more people I hadn't seen in a month. Everybody has such big smiles - so glad to have the pool back and so glad to see each other after a very long month. It's just fun. And the pool is sooooo sparkly clean! It wasn't not clean before but now it's wow.
I made some good strides on my website consolidation project. I have interconnected files on karolene.com, susandennis.org and susandennis.com. I'm moving them all to the host that now houses the .org site - once they are all there, and all of the links fixed, I'll change that host to susandennis.com and cancel the host accounts for the other two - I'll just park 'em at the domain register and point them TBD.
The problem is that I created these websites years ago. The code is convoluted because back in the day, x, y, z were not supported so you had to code these funky work arounds. I have totally forgotten all these tricks and trying to recreate them and/or even find them to replace them with good stuff is turning out to be a bit more difficult than I imagined.
But, one host is paid through December and the other through May so I've got time. And there are no updates needed so it's not like those projects usually are - like changing tires without stopping the bus.
Before I got laid off, I ordered a case for my Nexus 7. I waited until I found exactly the case I wanted. It's a special made - I picked colors inside and and out and features individually. It finally arrived today. It was way more money than I would spend now. But I'm beyond delighted with it. It looks so cool and feels so nice in my hands and it has one of those magic 'turn on when open and turn off with closed' features like the iPad smart cover. It's just a treat. http://shop.portenzo.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=bookcase-for-nexus I'm so glad I got it.
Belt sushi for dinner and movie tonight. Frank and the Robot, I think is the name of it.
My cat/human ecosystem is askew. Travis has a cold or something. He's sneezey and mopey and not getting into the bed with me until nearly morning. So Betty's got a clear shot at the bed and she's taking it.
It seems like all my friends who have 2 children have 1 who kicks and wiggles and is a terror to sleep with and the other who is a snuggly log. Travis is a snuggly log. Betty pokes and bats my face and crawls all over me and then settles in for a good minute and a half and repeats the whole routine. I think I finally really got to sleep last night about 3 a.m. When I woke up Betty was gone and Travis was snuggled up next to me.
I hope he feels better soon. I did not realize the ecosystem balance was so delicate.
Amazon fucked up another delivery. They use a west coast outfit called OnTrac for a fair number of their deliveries. When OnTrac delivers a package on time and correctly, it's a total accident. I've bitched an moaned an whined and yelled. They are doing fewer and fewer deliveries with UPS and FedEx doing more but still, they are the shortest straw you can draw in the Amazon delivery game.
As usual, I complain to Amazon and they send a perfectly lovely, not at all canned, reply and make it right. They are replacing the order immediately with overnight delivery which means I'll get it tomorrow instead of yesterday which isn't horrible but is exactly when I would have gotten it had I not had a Prime membership. My membership is up at the end of this month. I see no need or benefit to renewing. And I can use the $80 for something fun.
Swimming was fun again today. I saw more people I hadn't seen in a month. Everybody has such big smiles - so glad to have the pool back and so glad to see each other after a very long month. It's just fun. And the pool is sooooo sparkly clean! It wasn't not clean before but now it's wow.
I made some good strides on my website consolidation project. I have interconnected files on karolene.com, susandennis.org and susandennis.com. I'm moving them all to the host that now houses the .org site - once they are all there, and all of the links fixed, I'll change that host to susandennis.com and cancel the host accounts for the other two - I'll just park 'em at the domain register and point them TBD.
The problem is that I created these websites years ago. The code is convoluted because back in the day, x, y, z were not supported so you had to code these funky work arounds. I have totally forgotten all these tricks and trying to recreate them and/or even find them to replace them with good stuff is turning out to be a bit more difficult than I imagined.
But, one host is paid through December and the other through May so I've got time. And there are no updates needed so it's not like those projects usually are - like changing tires without stopping the bus.
Before I got laid off, I ordered a case for my Nexus 7. I waited until I found exactly the case I wanted. It's a special made - I picked colors inside and and out and features individually. It finally arrived today. It was way more money than I would spend now. But I'm beyond delighted with it. It looks so cool and feels so nice in my hands and it has one of those magic 'turn on when open and turn off with closed' features like the iPad smart cover. It's just a treat. http://shop.portenzo.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=bookcase-for-nexus I'm so glad I got it.
Belt sushi for dinner and movie tonight. Frank and the Robot, I think is the name of it.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-05 08:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-05 08:56 pm (UTC)Here is the edge... that is real wood there. It looks so cool.
The outside is blue and the inside is green.
OnTrac
Date: 2012-09-05 09:21 pm (UTC)I work for OnTrac and would like to address your journal post. Please send the tracking number for a recent OnTrac delivery to rob@ontrac.com.
The tracking number contains some of your address information, so please do not post it in a reply.
Thanks.
Rob
Re: OnTrac
Date: 2012-09-05 09:31 pm (UTC)My address is public in a variety of places. I am fully aware of the exposure and able and willing to deal with any ramifications positive or negative of having it public here.
The package arrived at my door about an hour ago. I assume, as usual, your driver left it in a wrong place yesterday. My building manager has tried over and over again to work with your company and your drivers to train them where to leave packages but it does no good. No other delivery service has problems or issues with this building except OnTrac.
In this case, if you wish to backtrack for your own satisfaction, the tracking number was:
C11120577164437 (It says it was delivered to the leasing office yesterday afternoon. we have no leasing office. i was here all day as was the building manager. OnTrac did not deliver my package to either his office or my door or anywhere else we could ascertain. Also, your website did not update with the information until 7:30 pm by which time, of course, your offices were closed.)
Karolene?
Date: 2012-09-06 03:30 am (UTC)Re: Karolene?
Date: 2012-09-06 04:13 am (UTC)Re: Karolene?
Date: 2012-09-06 01:18 pm (UTC)Seems that Susan is a dying name. I know of 3-4 people around my age......and one poor child who carried the name down. But you don't hear it much anymore. Makes me think of Maude or Mildred!!!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-06 02:51 pm (UTC)Enhanced by the (unstated but presumed) copious boob-shineage, no doubt!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-06 03:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-06 05:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-06 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-06 05:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-06 04:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-07 06:48 am (UTC)On a completely unrelated note - would you have any interest in a download-then-turn-around-and-upload two websites (aka, stack of files) from standard to a cloud host? I would happily pay whatever the going rate is (and then some,) and I will also readily admit to being incredibly embarrassed that I seem to continually not be able to find the time to this insanely simple task. Let me know if you're bored!!