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My Fed-Ex package was waiting for me when I got home. Opened it up, and pulled out... iLife! Looked at Brian's original email w/the shipping info & sure enough he accidentally ordered the wrong one. After how much Fed-Ex annoyed me I just had to laugh.

Was going to go to the Apple store to see if it could be exchanged there and hellbob asked how much iLife goes for. Told him that it is the same as iWork, $79. Well, he thought iLife/GarageBand was way more expensive than that, $200 at least. So he's decided that if it's only $79 he's gonna buy a legal copy. So now instead of trying to exchange the one I got I'll just pick up iWork at the Apple store.

We watched the pilot episode of Sci-Fi's Flash Gordon. Ouch. Painfully bad. "imex. What's an imex?" hellbob compared Flash Gordon to a Sci-Fi Saturday feature, but without the heart & soul that makes them fun...

The Space Shuttle Endeavour landed safely this afternoon! The came home early to avoid the hurricanes an storms, and the damaged tile didn't cause any problems. Yay!

Found out on the ride up to the cabin that my technomonkey_m ♥ Me First & the Gimme Gimmes! You go boy!

Contemplating setting my Twitter account to protected. Not because I don't want people to be able to read my tweets, but because the random adds by people who add hundreds and thousands of twitterers annoy me, and those are always right after I make a post which would have shown up on the public timeline. I like the idea of real people finding me and adding me though. I dunno. I think they would also stop showing up on the RSS feed, but I think the only non-twitter person reading that is genevra.

Applied for several jobs during my emo day at home yesterday. Don't know why I never thought of it sooner, but instead of searching for the key word "photoshop" I searched for just "photo." There were a couple jobs at local custom labs that I applied for. There is one that I am really hoping calls me back because I am uber-qualified and the pay is in the range I need and since it is part time with the possiblility of full time I should hopefully be able to work it around the school schedule. Not even going to say the name though because I don't want to jinx it. I wanted that Memorial Blood Centers job that I didn't get too badly and don't want to deal w/that again. *edit* The one I was really hoping would call me back emailed me and wants me to call "at my earliest convenience." to talk about the position! Yay!

Because I was having such a bad day yesterday when hellbob stopped to pick up my drugs for me he also got me chocolate. Unfortunately Byerly's didn't have Vosges anymore. :(

My mood is definitely much improved today.

I have become oddly addicted to "Scott Baio is 45 and Single." No, I can't explain it, I just am.

A cool new way to see independent films that don't come to your town:
From poyboy's journal: ( Independent film Hannah Takes The Stairs is playing in NYC tomorrow, but if your city has IFC InTheaters you can watch it at home tomorrow too. )
Here in the Cities, when I put my zip code in the IFC site says that Comcast Cable has this but DirecTV doesn't. If you have Comcast and are a fan of independent film, you should look into this.

And while I'm pimping friends' stuff, y'all should go watch This Day In Alternate History if you're not already. There have been 41 episodes already. They're all about 5 minutes long or so, and they are a total riot. They are hosted by MightyMur, aka sailormur and HoboZero, aka cryptonaut. Find them HERE.

Also, are you listening to Escape Pod yet? Top notch sci-fi stories read by talented people. This is sfeley's baby, and he's a very good daddy! The latest episode, #119 Aliens Want Our Women, was read by the supah-sexay Leann from the TitS podcast. Go listen now.

So anyway, there's a bunch of the random stuff floating in my brain today. Yes, I was having a VERY bad day yesterday. But I am much better today. Better living through chemistry, yo.



*note* although this post has the goat-fucking tag, it does not contain any actual goat fucking. The tag still just amuses me and I wanted to use it!

I'm getting that copy of iWork that Brian is sending me. The Fed-Ex tracking said it was supposed to be delivered on 8-18 w/indirect signature required. I know I'm going to be at the cabin on the 18th so I call Fed-Ex to find out what I can do to make sure it is delivered even though I won't be here. They say I can just leave a note telling where to leave the package.

Before leaving town I left a note on the door saying where to leave the package, and with my signature. I left this on the door we always use.

We got home today and found a Fed-Ex "we were here and you weren't so no package for you" tag on the front door. And no package.

@#$%^#$@#!@!##!!!!!

The door they left the sticker on? Has a great big freakin' green arrow on it pointing to the side of the house! You know, towards the door we use! UPS can figure the arrow out. DHL can figure the arrow out. Pizza delivery folk can figure the arrow out. Even the god-damn door-to-door solicitors who can't figure out how to get a frackin' permit from the city can figure it out. But not Fed-Ex!

So I signed their "you weren't here and we're retarded" slip. Then I took my sign on the door that told them where to leave the package and taped it to a new note which was taped up next to the Fed-Ex sticky tag.

The new note was not a nice happy polite "please leave the package here, thank you" note like the first one had been. No, it says, "The big freakin' green arrow on this door means to go to the other door! If you had been smart enough to figure that out you would have found THIS note and known what to do with the package!" with an arrow pointing to the original note.

Yeah, it may have been an honest mistake on their part but it pissed me off because I did everything I should have had to do to get my package. Stupid Fe-Ex! You don't mess with a woman who hasn't had her Zoloft for 4 days!!!!