Thursday, August 31, 2006
Hah! Take THAT!
I feel mildly triumphant tonight.
Even though I kept busy all day, I didn't get as much done as I would have liked to. But I did not let that feeling make me unhappy with what I DID get done!!
I got an unexpected package in the mail. Someone bought a box set of video tapes from me OVER A MONTH ago, and sent them back (WITHOUT asking first!) because she "ordered the wrong ones, and her husband doesn't want these." Oh YEAH I know they watched them, maybe even recorded them to DVDs! But I didn't DWELL on it (except for now, typing about it). I'm just going to email her back and say, "Gosh, sorry you didn't contact me first. If you send me a check for the postage you can have your videos back, because honey, they are YOURS." And Amazon will back me up on it. Heh.
Until tonight, I had a boombox that would rotate up to six CDs. It was pretty old, at least ten years, and had been a favorite toy of Mike's for at least the last couple of those. This spring the thing got jammed somehow. I got it to work again, for a while. But recently something went wrong so that it looked like it powered up, but it wouldn't actually DO anything but blink at you. And six of Mike's favorite CDs were trapped inside!
When none of the usual bypass tricks worked, I did what any sensible person would do. I DEMOLISHED IT, prying off chunks with a screwdriver until I got to the chewy CD center.
It was actually kind of fun!
Once all that excitement wore off, I sat down and finished the last page of my vacation photo essay.
Which is here.
A few more shots of the Royal Gorge, mainly of and from the neat little incline railway elevator jobbie that takes people down to the bottom of the Gorge.
If you were waiting for the whole set to be done to start looking, well, now it is.
This is the start page for it.
Even though I kept busy all day, I didn't get as much done as I would have liked to. But I did not let that feeling make me unhappy with what I DID get done!!
I got an unexpected package in the mail. Someone bought a box set of video tapes from me OVER A MONTH ago, and sent them back (WITHOUT asking first!) because she "ordered the wrong ones, and her husband doesn't want these." Oh YEAH I know they watched them, maybe even recorded them to DVDs! But I didn't DWELL on it (except for now, typing about it). I'm just going to email her back and say, "Gosh, sorry you didn't contact me first. If you send me a check for the postage you can have your videos back, because honey, they are YOURS." And Amazon will back me up on it. Heh.
Until tonight, I had a boombox that would rotate up to six CDs. It was pretty old, at least ten years, and had been a favorite toy of Mike's for at least the last couple of those. This spring the thing got jammed somehow. I got it to work again, for a while. But recently something went wrong so that it looked like it powered up, but it wouldn't actually DO anything but blink at you. And six of Mike's favorite CDs were trapped inside!
When none of the usual bypass tricks worked, I did what any sensible person would do. I DEMOLISHED IT, prying off chunks with a screwdriver until I got to the chewy CD center.
It was actually kind of fun!
Once all that excitement wore off, I sat down and finished the last page of my vacation photo essay.
Which is here.
A few more shots of the Royal Gorge, mainly of and from the neat little incline railway elevator jobbie that takes people down to the bottom of the Gorge.
If you were waiting for the whole set to be done to start looking, well, now it is.
This is the start page for it.
Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
