Beware of geeks bearing gifts

[vilakins]

The ThinkGeek things I ordered on Monday arrived yesterday which I consider impressive service from them and UPS. Compare that to the stationery orders I put in at work this week which are supposed to arrive the next day. Monday's order has been lost by NZ Couriers and Wednesday's hadn't arrived on Friday - from elsewhere in the same city. [stabs NZ Couriers] This meant that a print run meant for the weekend never happened. Argh!

But hey, I have all my presents sorted and either here or posted, so that's one source of stress gone.

We went back to the Mexican place for lunch today (it's been there over a year and we just found out?) and afterwards I went to the specialist shoe place next door and bought some proper walking shoes. No excuse but weather now for not getting some quality and pleasant exercise, esp since my classes have stopped for a month. The shoes are silver, grey, and a startling orange which is growing on me.

Greg has just gone to get fish and chips for dinner and there's cricket on the telly, and it feels like summer. Not a bad Saturday at all.

Comments

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

You can't trust some couriers, can you. *sigh*

Your shoes sound funky! ;-) I bought some new walking shoes a few months ago... purple, of course.

It did feel like summer today, didn't it. :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Purple! Nice. I didn't have much choice, but they're a lot more attractive than some colour combos.

It's not quite summer till there are cicadas. I heard a lone one at work about a month ago, but nothing since. I hope we have them before Christmas; I love the sound.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I agree it's not summer without the cicadas... I had been thinking today that it was almost warm enough to hear them. ^_^

[trixieleitz]

I could swear I heard something stridulating recently. Mind you, we've probably had all four seasons three times over since then, but, yes, they do make a lovely hot, lazy sound :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And I see you have seasonal stuff on your cat. :-)

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I got the icon from someone on my f-list... I just went 'aww...' when I saw it. ;-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's not so much a stationery order as a stationary order. :( But I'n glad that the rest of the news seems to be good.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes. We'll have to send some of it back for a credit when it turns up as we'll no longer need it. It's not the supplier's fault, but they do promise delivery within one working day.