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[geekchick]

Today is Setting Orange, day 45 in the season of Chaos, 3269.

There's a delivery waiting for me in the rental office. (I know this because the delivery person called my cellphone to get directions to my apartment, and I let them know there was no one home to let them in the gate.) Unfortunately, I get off work at just about exactly the time the rental office, half an hour away, closes for the evening.

[edit: I was told I could take off at 5, since it would be wrong to leave a gift sitting in the rental office all weekend - so long as I reported back on what it was. ;) I left work at 5:30 when I finished up my sysadminly duties and made it with 5 minutes to spare. *grin*]

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Story of my life!

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Last week, I got a UPS delivery and they'd only retry when I wasn't home. I ended up waiting until this week and picking it up at their depot in Chantilly (it was a new TiVo). Next week, my swoopy new computer is showing up, but I still didn't have enough clue to have it delivered to work. So I'll probably end up picking it up at the FedEx depot in Winchester. Fear not hon, the mystery package isn't from me.

Re: Story of my life!

[geekchick]

Mmmmm, Tivo... :) You're going to *Winchester*? Sheesh, that's a haul. Er, maybe not so much for you, sez the chick who spends her week in Warrenton. ;)

The package was from brian1789; it was a teddy bear wearing footie pajamas and holding its own teddy bear! *grin*

(You going to go to Bev's thingie at the planetarium next weekend?)

Re: Story of my life!

[gsh]

What thingie at what planetarium?

Re: Story of my life!

[geekchick]

"On Saturday February 22 at 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm is a Planetarium listening party to celebrate the release of Arthur Loves Plastic's upcoming cd, Nadir, at Montgomery Community College Planetarium in Takoma Park, MD." (from http://www.arthurlovesplastic.com/)

(Which reminds me, we were at Home Despot last weekend and saw a familiar license plate. ;) Didn't manage to run into youse guys there though, we managed to get in and out of there pretty quickly since we just needed lightbulbs.)

Re: Story of my life!

[gsh]

I'll mention the planetarium thingie to Pam.

Last weekend was another example of The Joy Of Homeownership, aka,
Hey Loser, you get to fix the damn toilet!

So the downstairs toilet leaks. Ok, its probably the wax seal.
I got to HD, get a seal, and some gaskets, and start disassembling
the damn thing. Spend some time getting the old wax off, which if you haven't
done this particular task yet, consider yourself lucky. Thank gawd for
playtex gloves. Anyway, as I get the damn thing cleaned up, I noticed
that the flange and a couple of other parts are bent. They are probably
about 25 years old by now (the house is 40, but the basement bathroom
isn't as old) so I go *BACK* to HD to get some more hardware. There being
two major sizes for USA plumbing, I get a flange that can handle both.
I put the flange on, realize that whatever idiot installed that plumbing
the first time didn't include bolts to bolt the flange down, so I used
two zinc 5/8th inch bolts and inch long. Good thing I bought 4 of these
cause I dropped two. At this point I put the flange back on, and start wresteling
the toilet back on the bolts. After 10 minutes get it all set up, drop the
toilet base down, and realize that I have the bolts at the wrong seperation.
A bit exasperated, I lean the toilet against the wall, while getting the
flange undone so I can set the bolts to the proper position. As I get this done
I hear a loud *smash* behind me, where the toilet leaning against the wall
falls to the floor. And breaks. So I go to Home Depot for a *THIRD* time,
to buy a new toilet tank.

*sigh*

The joys of home ownership.