I may have bought another pair of birkenstocks today. Oops. Plane tickets yesterday, shoes today...I'm just flinging money like I know I'm winning the powerball tonight. ;)
I like Zappos easy returns. though I love my birkenstock arizona sandals, the London style closed shoes don't feel good at all on my feet. I'd try them on and take them off a few minutes later. It's something about the uppers that doesn't work for me.
- ellbeecee
tracking my return, that's going to kentucky: " RECENT WEATHER HAS CAUSED DELIVERY DELAYS. RECOVERY EFFORTS ARE UNDER WAY TO DELIVER YOUR PACKAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. / WE'RE WORKING TO DELIVER YOUR PACKAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. " Hey, as long as UPS knows where it is, I'm ok and will accept that it's going to get there eventually.
- ellbeecee
Arrived home, still with this earworm. I'll let it hang out for a while then. Hopefully I won't wake up with it still there tomorrow morning. That would make me irritated.
- ellbeecee
How long should I wait for my eye doctor to contact me? I used their online form for appointment scheduling, and then I'm supposed to be contacted. I did this yesterday morning and haven't heard yet.
eh. I'm not going to call them today anyway. If I don't hear by midday tomorrow I'll call them.
- ellbeecee
called today. "we're having server problems with that...let me go check" Apparently they never got it. So, some kind of notice that it's not working or "if you don't hear from us in 24 hours, please contact our office directly) note would be good.
- ellbeecee
BK and I were just talking about that. "Oh, hey, did you see that job listing I sent? What do you think about moving to X?" "Oh, yeah, but then I saw that the Powerball jackpot is up to $450 million, so why don't we just do that?" "OH. RIGHT. Yeah, let's. That's easier."
- Julie Kane
Along with The Americans (http://friendfeed.com/ellbeec...), I've also started watching Switched at Birth on Netflix. It's another one I'm not far into, but so far I've been impressed with deaf characters as full characters, as well as clear safer sex moments (two characters stop only to learn they have no protection and stop), plus a single, adult woman...
...who makes it very clear that while she isn't looking to marry the man she may go on a date with, she isn't opposed to the possibility of sex with him. I'm still in the 1st season, so it may not hold up, but I'm going to keep working through it, at least for now.
- ellbeecee
I have been swinging the other end of the spectrum, and have been finally getting around to watching Queer as Folk. I binged a couple of seasons over break, and just haven't had time to watch lately. Surprisingly, there is a clear safe sex message in QaF too!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/article...
Ah, Euromonitor. Your email subject line for your new database "Counting Calories? We are." meant that I decided I should edit that subject before forwarding the email on to someone else. Because I could see it was from you. When I forwarded, it looks like it's from me.
narunfiltered:
Retail
Atlanta, GA
I was working as a cashier at a retail store during one very rainy summer. When I finished ringing up a customer, I would always ask if there was anything else I could do for them. A lot of customers, thinking they were clever and original, would ask me to stop the rain. I… - http://unfiltered.notalwaysright.com/post...
Went and looked at a new apartment today: if it was coming open around the time my lease is up, I probably would put in an application. But lease isn't up until June, so moving in March would cost me:
1 month rent as penalty for breaking the lease, loss of the deposit I paid, and I'd likely have to pay rent both places during March, plus the deposit on the new place. It would be a major outlay of money, and unnecessarily.
Love the location of the place, but didn't like the place enough to juggle and (try to, probably have to borrow)come up with those funds. I will tell the landlord that if something comes open closer to June, I probably would be interested.
- ellbeecee
Also, I'd really like to find a house to rent, even if the location's not nearly as good.
- ellbeecee
I'm with Stephanie, mostly. I loved the first season, have a third of the second season lingering on the DVR. I like it but can't always make myself watch it? I do love the 70s/80s vibe, and never watched Felicity.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
BEHOLD! I've made zero progress on Thing I Don't Wish To Do today! Guess what I'm doing this weekend? Thing must be completed, therefore I am doing Thing.
"Put an egg on it" should be the cooking motto in our house. We did smashed taters and scrambled eggs earlier this week. It was divine.
- Kirsten loves you
Ran into a faculty member on the train last night who had been reading a New Yorker article (this one - http://www.newyorker.com/magazin... ) about permanently saving things online. She was fascinated by the Internet Archive along with http://perma.cc/ - which is new to me (that doesn't mean I didn't just miss conversations ...
Database question: does any one have Statista? If so, do you also have Tablebase? (I know Tablebase has a better advanced search, but I'm not convinced that content is better. I'm willing to be convinced though)
[Edit - we only have Statista, we used to have Tablebase.]
- Joe
We used to have both but dropped Tablebase. I found Tablebase's data always older than expected. Wonder if Charleston Advisor has looked at Statista yet?
- Stephen Francoeur
thanks for that idea stephen - they have looked at it.
- ellbeecee
We're getting ready to pursue Statista per the business librarian's recommendation. We have Tablebase too, but I'm not sure if it will be renewed as well.
- Galadriel C.
Yeah. This "trying to get a cold" feeling I've head for the last few days. Definitely allergies kicking in wicked early. We need a good cold snap again to shut that stuff down until actual spring, please.
- ellbeecee
I keep reading that as "Dear Chitlin" and I get a little afraid.
- MoTO Boychick Devil
I have no desire to marry chitlin, but maybe if I tried them I might. I don't think so though.
- ellbeecee
One of my pet peeves (irrational, I know) is the use of read receipts in email. When given the choice, I will *always* reject them unless the email is something that clearly needs it (and there are times that they are needed).
Wait. It's on everything the send?! Gah! Yeah, no. That's just plain annoying. They're creating an extra step for others rather than doing their job as the sender.
- Kirsten loves you
dear Brain: there was no need to wake me up in the middle of the night convinced that Body has diphtheria. Body is no sicker than it was yesterday, and diptheria is so unlikely that it's near impossible.
Ooof. Sorry, LBC. I hope your brain lets you go back to sleep soon.
- Stephen Mack
Yeah, I did. That was around 1:30 this morning, but it was one of those things that's so absurd that it stuck with me until it was time to get up. And since this whatever hasn't progressed beyond a sore throat that mostly manifests in the middle of the night, I guess I'm going to work today.
- ellbeecee