Haines His Way

Topic of the Day:  I just finished listening to the original London cast recording of Parade, by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown.  It's, as far as I can tell, the whole show and the booklet has all the lyrics and dialogue.  It also contains a PAL-region 2 DVD of interviews with Alfred Uhry, Jason Robert Brown, director Rob Ashford and designer Christopher Gram.  It's quite informative, but only about 20 minutes long.

Also, I have BOTH studio recordings of the complete South Pacific with Paige O'Hara and Justino Diaz.  One recording has Pat Suzuki as Bloody Mary and the other (which is otherwise identical) has Shezwae Powell as Bloody Mary.  They were each less than half price, so I got both of them.

DR Singdaw...do you like your Kindle?

I went home for lunch which is my usual behavior. We ate our chicken noodle soup with crackers. We each had a clementine and then Anthony went back to the craft project and I began to sort the laundry for this evening washing party.

The buzzer rang. It was Fed Ex. They had TWO packages. One we were expecting, our memory modules but there was a box, about the size of the box which wa delivered yesterday which contained our new, working, 160gig hard drive.

I signed for both the envelope and the box but was confused. I opened the envelope and it contained the memory and this time it's the right product. I didn't want to open the box but I looked at all my paperwork and none of the purchase orders matched what was written on the box. We weren't expecting anything else and knowing that when we called Gateway we would need to say what was in the box, I opened it. Yes, it is a SECOND 160gig hard drive. It's exactly the same as the drive delivered yesterday. I can't imagine what is going on at Gateway that they could be so disorganized. We now have to call Gateway AGAIN and get a return authorization and make sure that my credit card is not charged for 2 hard drives. We then have to go back to FedEx to set in motion the return of this package. Gateway is spending a fortune on returns. They pick up the cost of the FedEx return because it's their error. So far we have returned one 500gig hard drive and two memory modules (each in a separate package with separate charges). Now comes the 3rd package. This has entered a whole new realm of silly.

All I can say is, at least my computer works.

Oy!

A couple of days ago, we (at the library service center) received a shipment from one of our major vendors.  The invoice had one title, five paperback copies ($6.99 list price per copy) and those five books were in the shipment and processed correctly...our barcode was on the front cover and our library name and address were stamped on the title page.  That's fine.  BUT also in the shipment were another three books.  All three were processed like the paperbacks, but we didn't order them and we weren't billed for them.  The books were "Consumer Sourcebook" and they're $400 each!!  And we got THREE copies of them!!  It isn't our mistake and we don't have to pay for them.  We're also not keeping them.  I called and the rep on the phone, when I told her that they were $400 EACH, sounded quite agitated.  But she said that she'll send a mailing label to return them.  This has certainly happened before, but NEVER with $400 books.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
 
If you can't eat it or hump it.......


Piss on it and walk away

der Brucer

The above passed on to me by my sweet blue-haired Republican widow in CA

When I first glanced at this, I thought it was your birthday greeting to Charles!

On the other hand, you've effectively dissuaded any HHW DR from dropping in unexpected and unannounced hoping to crash on your fire escape for a few days!

 

Long after our lice problem was cleared Bryan was not invited to a number of friend's houses, or were they permitted at ours.  His feelings were very hurt.  The parents of Craig's friend's were less worried & trusted me.  No one got lice from visiting our house.  

But what about Bryan?  Where does he stay on the "other side" of all his flights?

LOL.

In Chicago he stayed with a friend, and I presume will do so when he returns.  In NY he will stay with his girlfriend.  He also has a cousin there and two of his best friends.  

BTW.  School tours and other activities for the day were done with other potential students.  Bryan said his age & experience definitely made a difference, all the younger applicants were very nervous while he was calm & confidant.  

Congratulations to DR Jane on her current milestone!

Thank you.  Since I never pay attention to these things, I'll have to see what milestone I passed, after I make this post.

What KIND of concessions would be available at the Sex Workers Art Show Tour - one wonders.....

Yeah, Jane!  15,000+ posts!  

Topic of the Day:  I just finished listening to the original London cast recording of Parade, by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown.  It's, as far as I can tell, the whole show and the booklet has all the lyrics and dialogue.  It also contains a PAL-region 2 DVD of interviews with Alfred Uhry, Jason Robert Brown, director Rob Ashford and designer Christopher Gram.  It's quite informative, but only about 20 minutes long.
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Oooh!  I'd like this!

Congrats to Jane on your major milestone

Yeah, Jane!  15,000+ posts!  

I don't know, I fear I'm too talkative.

I don't know, I fear I'm too talkative.

Another 11,075 posts, DR Jane, and you'll overtake DR Jose!

 

Continued vibes to Elmore.....