Archive for 2007
Weather freaks people out.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
I took this picture today on my way to the ATM, which is normally a 5-minute drive from my apartment. It took over 20 minutes to get there today. For those that know Lansing, I am on Saginaw going west toward Canal, about halfway between Creyts and Canal. Traffic was backed up in both directions on Saginaw as far as I could see, presumably all the way from Lansing to I-96.
Unsolicited Bulk Advertising
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
We live in an apartment, and as such have a small mailbox in the front part of the building. I don’t always get to check my mail every day of the week, and lately it seems we’ve been getting an excessive amount of mail, most of it junk, albeit directly addressed to us. Our mail carrier also delivers a wad of ads called “ShopWise” which is delivered on Tuesdays and totally fills the mailbox from top to bottom – this is addressed to “Resident” and our apt number. Its all coupons and ads for some local and national businesses (ie, Rite Aid, Big Lots, etc). In over a year of living here I have only read it on rare occasion and never use any of the coupons from it.
I hadn’t checked our mail on Monday and we apparently got a big pile of stuff since its the holidays and everyone is sending holiday cards and such. I also got a Netflix, and Bart got quite a lot of mail, some bills, mostly credit card junk mail. On Tuesday I retrieved the mail, and found it all crunched up in the bottom of our mailbox because the postal carrier decided to stuff the “ShopWise” mailer in on top of it and smash it all down so it would fit. Because of this, when I opened the mailbox about half of everything in it spilled out on the floor everywhere. I took the “ShopWise” and put it on top of the mailboxes and left it there because I didn’t want it.
Today when I went to check our mail the only thing I found in the mailbox was the “ShopWise” mailer, with a note written on the back of it – “This is mail! Please treat it that way! Thanks” — this is where I vehemently disagree. This is NOT mail. This is a prime example of “Unsolicited Bulk Advertising.” Or, the real-world version of spam.
Shit-tastic
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Today was just unbelievably dumb.
I got to work a little early so I could upgrade my workstation, which I thought would be a quickish thing, but nooo. Kubuntu had other ideas. The GUI install bombed out and borked my debconf. I rebooted and X &/or KDE were borked such that I had no GUI. So I ended up spending about 45 minutes “fixing” it and re-doing the upgrade, which finally completed successfully. Except for the fact I have no sound again. Grr.
Then there was workstuff. People’s sites overloading servers, yaddayadda. Busybusybusy.
Bart called me in late morning/early afternoon to let me know some asshole busted off the antenna on his car sometime last night – likely someone from our apt complex but possibly just a passing vandal.
Then I got home and retrieved the mail, which contained our electric bill from LBWL. Which is due tomorrow. I don’t know why we’re just now getting it since the “date printed” date on it says Nov 19, and I’m assuming it came from just across town or wherever LBWL gets them printed. The envelope also was not sealed at all. Not making me happy. I paid it online just now, hopefully that’s good enough.
Pandora.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
You can tell I’ve been listening to Pandora a lot since Sept.
I miss my desk.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
I haven’t seen my actual desk/workstation at work since Monday. In fact I won’t see it again until this coming Wednesday.
In other news, this looks interesting…