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DHL is thwarting me.
12 Jan 2024 03:35 pmThe calendars I ordered were supposed to be delivered on Wednesday, but the packaging was damaged, which means it has to be sent to a central location, where the contents will be verified, and then it will be repacked and sent to me. The last time this happened was with an order of cat supplies, and it took long enough that I ordered another bag of cat litter 3 days later, and it arrived several days before the original shipment.
So we will see how long it takes a box containing 4 books to get to a central location, verified, and returned to me. I don't understand why it can't be done locally; it's not that hard to find the packing slip and compare the contents, right? I did find takers for the extra notebooks, though.
I've started at my new gig, and it seems like it'll be a good fit. I haven't actually done any of the work yet; I've been added to the slack and google workspace and project management thing and the airtable, I've been oriented to the workflow and stuff, and I've been assigned a handful of things to edit, which I will look at on Monday. (They're paying me for 10 hours a week or thereabouts, and nobody works on Fridays.)
I should go for a walk or something, because I haven't since Tuesday, but it's still cold out and I'm going to complain and be a big baby about it. (I did YouTube videos Wed and yesterday.) Tomorrow is roller derby, so I'll get plenty of exercise then.
Sunday I'm going to Potsdam for a tour of the plants hibernating in the orangery, which I stumbled across doing research for a short story. It's only 10 Euro, and I have unlimited regional travel, so getting there is free. It's an hour and a half to get there, so I'll probably aim to get there a couple hours before the tour (which is at 2 pm) and walk through the castle park in the horrid grey and maybe rain until it's time for the tour. It'll be starting to get dark after the tour.
I wish I could remember if I already bought a book about Sanssouci; I enjoy having the little histories at my fingertips, and they have better pictures than I'd be able to take. I might have the one about Charlottenburg. (If I do, they're in storage, because I don't see them on my shelf.)
So we will see how long it takes a box containing 4 books to get to a central location, verified, and returned to me. I don't understand why it can't be done locally; it's not that hard to find the packing slip and compare the contents, right? I did find takers for the extra notebooks, though.
I've started at my new gig, and it seems like it'll be a good fit. I haven't actually done any of the work yet; I've been added to the slack and google workspace and project management thing and the airtable, I've been oriented to the workflow and stuff, and I've been assigned a handful of things to edit, which I will look at on Monday. (They're paying me for 10 hours a week or thereabouts, and nobody works on Fridays.)
I should go for a walk or something, because I haven't since Tuesday, but it's still cold out and I'm going to complain and be a big baby about it. (I did YouTube videos Wed and yesterday.) Tomorrow is roller derby, so I'll get plenty of exercise then.
Sunday I'm going to Potsdam for a tour of the plants hibernating in the orangery, which I stumbled across doing research for a short story. It's only 10 Euro, and I have unlimited regional travel, so getting there is free. It's an hour and a half to get there, so I'll probably aim to get there a couple hours before the tour (which is at 2 pm) and walk through the castle park in the horrid grey and maybe rain until it's time for the tour. It'll be starting to get dark after the tour.
I wish I could remember if I already bought a book about Sanssouci; I enjoy having the little histories at my fingertips, and they have better pictures than I'd be able to take. I might have the one about Charlottenburg. (If I do, they're in storage, because I don't see them on my shelf.)
