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Mar. 20th, 2019 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesHeu! heu! heu! quo casu sortis
venit haec damnatio mortis?
Heu! heu! heu! scelus infandum!
Cur me dabit ad lacerandum
haec fera turba feris?
Sic me, Rex, perdere quaeris!
Heu! qua morte mori me cogis?
Parce furori.
That's Daniel's lamentation in the lions' den. Which is about how I feel, because the Finance office harrumphed at me about reimbursement for the pizza last week and then yelled at me for (a) letting somebody use my card to order 5-year HSDM anniversary flowers for our front desk person, (b) getting charged tax on the flowers (which vendors are actually allowed to do, if they insist on doing it after we tell them we're tax exempt), and (c) having the total amount with tax exceed the gift limit by 94 cents. I know, it's not a policy if they make any exceptions at all, but can't I go downstairs and hand them a dollar and be done with it? (And yes, I admit I knew not to let anyone else use the card. But sometimes I have more important things to do than order flowers.)
I take it back, maybe it's the Fantasticks, not Daniel in the lions' den:
Beyond that road lies a shining world!
(Beyond that road lies despair)
Beyond that road lies a world that's gleaming!
(People who are scheming)
Beauty!
(Hunger)
Glory!
(Sorrow)
Never a pain or care...
(He's liable to find a couple of surprises there.)
Whatever it is, it's an improvement over last night, the soundtrack to which was So What by Pink. I did in fact want to get in a fight. But I didn't. I went home and had beer first and dinner afterward and turned my brain off enough to stop caring so much.
I think Amazon is trying to encourage Prime membership by delaying shipment on non-Prime orders. I placed an order on Sunday, which they said I'd get on Friday, and it hasn't shipped yet. If I'd had Prime, I would probably have had it delivered already. I don't want Prime, though; if I'm ordering something from Amazon, I don't need it immediately. And Amazon doesn't need any more of my money than I'm giving it already.
However, on the good side, Amazon told me that Pogo volume 6 is due the week before Thanksgiving.
Also good, I finally got my embroidered HSDM jacket, and it actually fits. I had ordered a large, and was assuming it would be too small by the time I got it. It's not windproof, but dammit, it's spring and I'm about done making concessions this month.
venit haec damnatio mortis?
Heu! heu! heu! scelus infandum!
Cur me dabit ad lacerandum
haec fera turba feris?
Sic me, Rex, perdere quaeris!
Heu! qua morte mori me cogis?
Parce furori.
That's Daniel's lamentation in the lions' den. Which is about how I feel, because the Finance office harrumphed at me about reimbursement for the pizza last week and then yelled at me for (a) letting somebody use my card to order 5-year HSDM anniversary flowers for our front desk person, (b) getting charged tax on the flowers (which vendors are actually allowed to do, if they insist on doing it after we tell them we're tax exempt), and (c) having the total amount with tax exceed the gift limit by 94 cents. I know, it's not a policy if they make any exceptions at all, but can't I go downstairs and hand them a dollar and be done with it? (And yes, I admit I knew not to let anyone else use the card. But sometimes I have more important things to do than order flowers.)
I take it back, maybe it's the Fantasticks, not Daniel in the lions' den:
Beyond that road lies a shining world!
(Beyond that road lies despair)
Beyond that road lies a world that's gleaming!
(People who are scheming)
Beauty!
(Hunger)
Glory!
(Sorrow)
Never a pain or care...
(He's liable to find a couple of surprises there.)
Whatever it is, it's an improvement over last night, the soundtrack to which was So What by Pink. I did in fact want to get in a fight. But I didn't. I went home and had beer first and dinner afterward and turned my brain off enough to stop caring so much.
I think Amazon is trying to encourage Prime membership by delaying shipment on non-Prime orders. I placed an order on Sunday, which they said I'd get on Friday, and it hasn't shipped yet. If I'd had Prime, I would probably have had it delivered already. I don't want Prime, though; if I'm ordering something from Amazon, I don't need it immediately. And Amazon doesn't need any more of my money than I'm giving it already.
However, on the good side, Amazon told me that Pogo volume 6 is due the week before Thanksgiving.
Also good, I finally got my embroidered HSDM jacket, and it actually fits. I had ordered a large, and was assuming it would be too small by the time I got it. It's not windproof, but dammit, it's spring and I'm about done making concessions this month.
