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I’m hating UPS again. A book I wanted to take a look into yesterday is supposed to be on the way from amazon. At 12:30, while I was sitting at home, the UPS driver tried to deliver it to the apartment down the street from me. At 4:30, the tracking information finally updated, and I called in to find out how I could get my book. At 7pm, after two trips to the UPS place, I finally gave up. UPS has my book, and I’ll get it when they damned well feel like giving it to me. Unless they just can’t find it at all, which is where things were when I gave up last night. I probably didn’t win any friends with my parting comment, either. When you find the package, why don’t you just give it to FedEx to deliver? They don’t seem to need an apartment number to deliver to my house.
That was just the capper for a generally frustrating day. The bugs I need to fix aren’t yielding to my normal bug-stomping techniques, and what I’d really like is to be able to take a walk in the sunshine to clear my brain. There’s no sunshine to be had, though.
- Today is the hearing for Koscielski’s Guns and Ammo downtown at 2pm. City Hall, Room 220. This is pretty much the last showdown for the last gun shop in Minneapolis. Unless Mark wins, in which case, it’ll be a year or two before the City comes after him again. I don’t konw if I’ll be able to make it down for the hearing, but I wish Mark the best. [war on guns]
- In this week’s National Review, Mark Steyn’s column, A War Without Polkas points out that as of today, the war on terror has gone on longer than the US’ involvement in WWII. Apparently things move slower today:
Imagine if FDR had turned to Tenet to start up the OSS. In 1942, he’d have told the president not to worry, we’ll have it up and running by 1950.
Then, we got internment of Japanese and ration stamps. Today we get internment of (fewer) middle easterners, national ID, and a vague feeling that Oceania has always been at war. Sigh. - Yesterday, while eating lunch, I got asked for the first time if I was planning to go see Episode III. Now this wasn’t a complete stranger, but rather a bartender at the Sporty with whom I’ve had more than a few discussions about things like
Should I worry if I’m still tending bar at 25?
Well, I didn’t get my first full-time job until I was 26,
so she knows at least a bit about me. And she understood that while Return of the Jedi was her favorite (she’s exactly girly enough that this was no surprise), people my age might have had a problem with the dancing teddy bears. But she still seemed to be taken somewhat aback by my response to her question:Naw, I don’t need to see it. I already know how it ends. He goes evil.
Or maybe as the critic at the New Yorker said:Break me a fucking give.
[strib] - According to the strib, The weather’s just ducky, but the humans are getting testy after 17 days of rain in the past 24. I knew it felt like a lot. We’re supposed to get a break tomorrow, but then more rain on Saturday and Sunday. Ugh. Will it be the rainiest May ever? Probably not, but it sure feels like it. [strib]
- This may be more of a Friday link, but I think I need to lighten the mood a bit. Turly’s got a movie of the Coolest Dog Ever (Windows Media, 770k) that you probably need to watch. Wow. [turly]