I think we got everything shipped to us except for a possible birthday present for Berck that he has to pick up at the UPS station because they were convinced we weren’t here when we were. I’ve bought a wireless doorbell that we can put in the study to hear if they come by. Today we were home all day, and UPS never bothered to ring the doorbell. Instead they hid our two packages (one from Uncle Dave, thanks!) under the door mat. Yeah, they were nearly invisible.
While we were there, gasoline cost $7.63 per gallon, and our little Sirloin got approximately 38 miles per gallon.
Seriously, WTF? The weather was *excellent* on Saturday. Clear blue skies, and there wasn’t a bit of snow/ice on the roads. We drove Arthur, our ’62 F100 with cheap (not snow) tires, on Saturday. So how can they claim a weather exception???? It would be one thing if FedEx had correctly delivered a single package out of dozens of attempts the past 6 months. I am absolutely astounded at just how bad the service has been lately. The last exchange I had with FedEx involved no less than 12 telephone calls and a copy of OSX 10.5 that was delivered…
As many of you know, I once had a bit of a bad time with some Absinthe. Most of the better hostels in Europe have a bar downstairs, and the one I stayed at in Prague was no exception. I started drinking $0.50 Budweiser (the Czech beer whose name was purloined by some bad American brewers), and noticed that everyone was drinking this blue stuff. I ascertained that it was called absinthe, and ordered a glass. There, the locals drink it by taking a spoonful of sugar, dipping it into the absinthe, igniting it (absinthe is often up to 160…