My Life

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Friday Five

1. If you had all the money in the world and could choose to own anything, what you would get and why?
A nice house, still close to Worcester, with a little land around it. I want Marcus to grow up in comfortable surroundings. I'll help design the bloody thing too.

2. If you were to do something that scares you, what would it be?
Skydiving, preferably a HALO jump.

3. What was your first pet?
Cat named Sylvester. Lived to like 18 or 19, passed on via natural causes.

4. What's the farthest you've traveled?
Morocco to USA.

5. If you were a season, which one would you be and why?
Fall. I love the energies that fall has, plus there's a constant smell of woodsmoke in the evenings.

Extra one: If you were a song, which one would you be and why?
Anything with good bluesy guitar work... or most Pink Floyd songs. Go figure.

Effing DHL...

So... Colleen and I order an item from the Pyramid catalog on Wednesday night. We do the option for overnight delivery so we would have it for Friday, as it wouldn't ship until Thursday. We were promised Friday delivery.

As of 1500 Friday, no sign of the package at Colleen's school. Both she and I call Pyramid. Colleen also does multiple calls to DHL (who handles their shipping).
As far as we can tell, it's somewhere between the shipping dock of Pyramid (where they don't scan packages when they pick them up -- everyone else does, why don't they?) and their distribution hub -- IN OHIO!!!!!.
So now it will look like we will be getting this package Saturday morning at earliest... read that back... at earliest. And we have to go to the shipping center in Worcester or Shrewsbury ourselves to get it.

Unbefuckinglievable.
I wouldn't trust DHL to ship me a box of air. The USPS runs better than this. Much better.
At least we're getting our shipping refunded. That's the bright point.
I say again, unbefuckinglievable.



(xposted to my LJ and friday_fu