I’ve always hated Amazon, ever since they tried to patent cookies back in the day, but I got over. I’ve used Amazon to buy a few books, CDs and some computer hardware. I use it on this site to display links to products and album covers of the music I’m listening to… and I even share an Amazon Prime account with a few other people, which gets me free 2-day shipping on a lot of their items.
Unfortunately, Amazon or FedEx or someone in the middle failed to put my apartment # on my last order from them. So FedEx came and knocked on someone else’s door and left a little sticky on someone else’s door and claimed I wasn’t home. I really, really wanted to have this for the weekend, (it’s the replacement for the external hard drive that fell and died), and I can, if I drive down to Warwick between 5 and 7.30 tonight and get it from the FedEx location that the truck is going back to. So, I guess I’ll be leaving work early.
If I didn’t get the best prices online, I would never mail-order anything. It sucks. I’ve always had issues with the delivery companies not leaving packages, even if I specify that it should be left… or messing up my address… or not wanting to leave a package because the door doesn’t say EFDisaster or Wormtown. When I shop eBay I will pay more for an item if the seller says I can go pick it up… I just hate shipping.
In the good news department, I’ve recovered almost all of my music, if not all, and I’ve added some new albums to my collection on the suggestion of some of the nice people who helped me rebuild my collection. I have also become obsessed with the way the file explorer shows album covers in my music folders if I have it on thumbnail view and there’s a file in the folder called folder.jpg. It’s caused me to scan a bunch of covers in (local bands whose artwork isn’t in any online database)… it was a good time-killer while I was ripping CDs to MP3. Almost every album has album cover art, now. It’s pretty.
The scanner on this new all-in-one printer works fine… the printer did that stupid “out of paper” error again today. I thought I had solved it with an HP phone support tech by specifying “plain paper” (which leads me to believe that the sensor that the “automatic” setting uses is busted), but it did it again today while I was printing out the directions to the Warwick FedEx location.
woot
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