Bachelor life

Dancer has been away for the last few days at a 4 day long dance retreat, so I've been home alone and living life as a bachelor. Microwave meals and dvds have been prominent :)

Today though, I slept in late, waking up at 10am, got some shopping done, and thats when a migraine hit. I've not had one in a long, long time, but I was feeling sick, my eyes were watering. So I went back to bed for a few hours which the puggies loved, and woke up nice and refreshed again.

So now I'm working through my season 1 box set of Carnivale, which has been sitting on the shelf for too long, drinking some Amstel light. Much happier.

My shared items

I read a lot of blogs, and like most people, I use a feed aggregator to do it. This used to be Bloglines, but I switched to Google Reader as it has more features.

One of these is the ability to "share" items on my feed list that are interesting or fun. It creates an almost blog like website with them listed, and if you look over on the right, there is a small view into these. Enjoy!

The English invade!

I'm a member of a British expats forum, and while I don't post there a lot, there are sometimes some interesting threads. Recently someone posted looking for people who lived in Western Massachusetts, which happens to be the are I lived in.

So I responded, we exchanged a couple of private messages and set a date.

So last night saw myself, and two other English blokes, they brought their wives (mine was busy), one of whom was American, one German.

We sat down in The Peoples Pint in Greenfield, MA and we had some of their lovely micro brew beers. We chatted, we exchanged immigration stories and situations, we discussed how much we have changed by living here, wether that is our accents, our lifestyles.

We're hoping more people can join us next time, as it was a fun time. I also got to buy a real, honest to god round of drinks for the first time in over 4 years, which was rather amusing.

It's been a long week, we're both looking forward to being in bed before midnight, and not up before 7 for a change! I know I'm starting to run on fumes.

I know I shouldn't be suprised that Fedex actually sucks, but they do.

I placed an order from Woot.com. Actually, two orders within a couple of days. I screwed up and had my old profile in place, so they had my shipped address as my old office building.

My phone rang early one morning, it was the local Fedex depot, they got a package and they couldn't find my company in that building, where would I like it delivered. I gave them the new address, and it was in my grubby little mitts the next day.

At the time, I let them know there was a second package coming to the same invalid address, and she promised a note would be left redirecting it.

It didn't work. Last Tuesday they called to tell me they couldn't deliver, they got the new address again. According to their website they then proceeded to try to deliver it to the same wrong address on Thursday, Friday *and* Saturday. I just tried to call them to chase them up today and spent *30* minutes in their voice activated, voice driven system, that doesn't recognize my English accent.

So infuriating!

Still it should be with me tomorrow. Except I'm out of the office. Grr.

Fedex = muppets