{"id":114,"date":"2005-11-21T23:25:39","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2005\/11\/21\/something-always-goes-wrong\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T06:23:46","slug":"something-always-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2005\/11\/21\/something-always-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Something always goes wrong&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my power supply is on its way to becoming toast &#8212; and not the yummy kind you put butter on.  So, I ordered a new one, along with a new DVD burner because&#8230;well, it was there, and a good deal.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, UPS is doing some of its amazing math on me.  Newegg got everything shipped off within, hell, probably 12 hours of my ordering, but since I chose their cheapest shipping &#8212; UPS 3 Day, I&#8217;m now going to be waiting longer than if I&#8217;d picked their Fed Ex &#8216;cheapass slow shipping&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the days when FedEx was cheapest.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUPS says that three days from the 21st is the 28th.  Funny, by my admittedly poor counting, it&#8217;s the 24th, which is a holiday and nobody&#8217;s going to do anything that day, so I&#8217;m guessing the 25th.  Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess UPS are taking Friday off too.  And Saturday and Sunday like they always do [unless you pay them loads extra].  So, my new power supply and DVD burner will be here on the 28th.  Unless they get here earlier, which means they&#8217;ll be here on the 28th after sitting and soaking up Commerce City&#8217;s stench for days and days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sending UPS this email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three day select, shipped on the 21st, &#8216;delivery&#8217; due on the 28th.  There you guys go with your funny maths again.  What, are you taking Friday off because of the holiday as well as saturday and sunday?  You&#8217;re worse than the post office.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s little things like this that remind me to never pay for fast shipping with you guys.  Only if it&#8217;s free, because that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect their reply&#8230;probably the third Tuesday after Meatmas&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I also woke up to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>reshpeckobiggle: Hi. Your profile is interesting<br \/>\nreshpeckobiggle: I think I came upon it a long time ago and tried to talk to you, but you ignored me.<br \/>\nreshpeckobiggle: Kinda like you&#8217;re doing now<br \/>\nreshpeckobiggle: Oh well. I was gonna prove beyond a shadow of doubt that god exists, but I guess I&#8217;ll have to find something else to do<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This IMer did roughly the same thing at me at&#8230;my little yahoo archive thing says 1am on October 12th.  It might be wrong.  It might not be.  I wasn&#8217;t awake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>reshhpeckobiggle:  Hi<br \/>\nreshpeckobiggle:\tAre you awake?<br \/>\nreshpeckobiggle:\tI have a question about your profile. What&#8217;s with the stuff about &#8220;if you can prove that God exists?&#8221;<br \/>\nreshpeckobiggle:\tJust wondering where you were coming from. Get back to me anytime if you feel like it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/profiles.yahoo.com\/reshpeckobiggle\">Here<\/a> is his profile.  I can only imagine what his idea of &#8216;proving god exists&#8217; is, and honestly, I&#8217;d rather not.  Unless it involves a perpetually refilling case of Coke.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s pretty much it.  Thanks to the incompetent UPS I&#8217;m down to one drive until, well, until that fails, which will probably be before they get my stuff to me.  And then I&#8217;m pretty much without a computer until my stuff gets here.  All because the people in charge seem to be lazy and can&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my power supply is on its way to becoming toast &#8212; and not the yummy kind you put butter on. 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