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As far as the power outage: Boo to the facility, boo to having all eggs in one basket again (haven't we learned from this in the past?), boo to the status pages (why have things so the status page is sometimes unreachable when the site is down; why have two status pages; why have them disagree, with the status.livejournal.org showing it was being worked on while the status.sixapart.com showed that it was NOT because Vox was - this was after Typepad was up, o'course). Overall, not really very impressed with Six Apart's communication, or the co-location facility, but mostly with the communication. (I was also annoyed at the priorities in bringing up LJ last, but that turned out to be a communications issue as, unlike the SA site implied, they were working on LJ at the same time as the others. It just took longer, which there's really only so much you can do about that, so...life goes on.)
Funny from my page-a-day calendar: "On a bottle of bath-tub cleaner: For best results, start with a clean tub before use." Er.
Got a load of laundry done tonight. Basta is not feeling entirely well, but so far holding up okay, I think. I read more of The Assassin King which is quite good.
Amazon has shipped me something, which both baffles and (mildly) annoys me. Baffles as I didn't order anything, so someone got me something. Annoys, because they sent it UPS, which (after a number of tiffs with UPS about their asinine delivery methods) means I have to stop at their place in Tualatin on the way home tomorrow to pick it up. I'm not sure this is actually an improvement over having them slide the front door mat over it, except that I am less likely to step on an unexpected package this way, or find it rain-soaked. But I avoid ordering things that must ship UPS if at all possible, and now I shall have to find this place (got the driving directions, sounds fairly easy) and find out what I'm getting. I hope it's neat, at least! I like some surprises, gifts usually among them. I just don't like UPS. At least it's on my way home from work, so it'll be easy enough to get.
Time for me to go to bed.
Funny from my page-a-day calendar: "On a bottle of bath-tub cleaner: For best results, start with a clean tub before use." Er.
Got a load of laundry done tonight. Basta is not feeling entirely well, but so far holding up okay, I think. I read more of The Assassin King which is quite good.
Amazon has shipped me something, which both baffles and (mildly) annoys me. Baffles as I didn't order anything, so someone got me something. Annoys, because they sent it UPS, which (after a number of tiffs with UPS about their asinine delivery methods) means I have to stop at their place in Tualatin on the way home tomorrow to pick it up. I'm not sure this is actually an improvement over having them slide the front door mat over it, except that I am less likely to step on an unexpected package this way, or find it rain-soaked. But I avoid ordering things that must ship UPS if at all possible, and now I shall have to find this place (got the driving directions, sounds fairly easy) and find out what I'm getting. I hope it's neat, at least! I like some surprises, gifts usually among them. I just don't like UPS. At least it's on my way home from work, so it'll be easy enough to get.
Time for me to go to bed.
surprise!
(Anonymous) 2007-07-25 09:55 am (UTC)(link)I do not believe I have ever posted anon before. I am in stealth mode.
Re: surprise!
Actually, amusingly, unless something is quite large the best way to send it is USPS (I've never had anything DHL delivered, so they may be fine, but our mailboxes have two protected package holders).
UPS likes to leave packages hidden under the door-mat, because they can't leave it unless it is "concealed". They will not change this even if you put orders in writing, all you can do is get them not to leave packages at all. I have, in the course of getting 5-10 packages through them, almost stepped on one small one (saved by the fact that they dragged it to one side before covering it, but that is not, IMO, excusable), and missed seeing two. One of those my husband caught. The other, we didn't find until the next morning, and it spent the night on our porch in the rain. We both entered through the garage, but if there had been a visible package on the front porch, I believe we'd have noticed and gotten it. The dumb thing is, if you are actively looking for a package, you will see them. But if you are not, well...so I don't feel that they are very "concealed" from trouble-makers, just from me! :P