(October 31, 2025 at 10:18 am)Fireball Wrote:

(October 31, 2025 at 10:01 am)Paraselene Wrote: Angrily watching my package stay in the same spot (Sorting Centre, Shenzhen) for days. Grrr.

I've had this happen, and then have the package show up in spite of no tracking updates. But that was years ago. Now we can blame the chump.

I had a package arrive USPS where the tracking status indicates they're still waiting for the package from the shipper.

Meh, it's accurate except when it isn't

(October 31, 2025 at 2:20 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(October 31, 2025 at 10:18 am)Fireball Wrote: I've had this happen, and then have the package show up in spite of no tracking updates. But that was years ago. Now we can blame the chump.

I had a package arrive USPS where the tracking status indicates they're still waiting for the package from the shipper.

Meh, it's accurate except when it isn't

Clearly, parcel tracing is not a perfected technology. 

Boru

Happy Halloween!

Half-caff coffee with Italian sweet cream creamer.

Acronis spent all day copying the problem disk, only to freeze while displaying that it had 44 seconds left to go. I had to cancel to see what I could recover. It did dick. The target disk is empty.

I'll have to set it aside for a day or two. The kitchen is a disaster area.

Causing atomic migration within a crystalline lattice to decrease the number of dislocations via a judicious thermal application of C3H8.

Boru

^Putting the atoms back where I found them.
 
Boru

Suffering through my reaction to the covid vaccine -- chills, fever, aches, tiredness -- like every year.

Also, my car had a flat this morning. So not my best day.

Went through one of the most overwhelming shopping experiences of my life.

First for some backstory: if you’re from the suburbs of Chicago, you might be familiar with a store called American Science and Surplus in Park Ridge. A bit closer to me, there's a warehouse on the way to Superdawg that has a sale every couple months. The main store closed recently. While we drove to Superdawg today, we saw a sign advertising a sale at the Warehouse.

You ever gone to a store that's close to closing and has the inventory on the shelves at 70% off? This was nothing like that. It was a mostly empty warehouse, but it still had a lot of inventory spread out all over the place in containers that you could barely tell whether a given container even had anything in it, let alone whether or not it was worth anything. And if it could fit in a shopping cart, it had to go. I could have spent days on the piles of cigar boxes alone. I don't even know how many of those I got exactly, but I suspect it was between 12 and 15. (Edit: It was 12) Other than the cigar boxes, they probably got most of the other great stuff to the other warehouse. You had to go through a warehouse and look through every potential place there could be something. You don't know what's left, you don't know how much anything's supposed to cost. Maybe $60 for a shopping cart's worth of stuff. Or just $50, which is what we paid for. And, by volume, half of it was cigar boxes. All you know is you won't have that many potential chances left to get what's there. And like I said, the piles of cigar boxes alone could have taken days for me to sift through the best ones, or even just the ones with the "low birth weight" Surgeon General Warning stickers.

I was hoping to go to Half-Price Books today, but after all this, there was no way I could do it. It took about two and a half hours for my heart rate to go back down.

Watching the game.