The Blog With No Name

Two things.

One: when Amazon sends you something via DHL, and their tracking page (’cause you’ve memorized the 11-digit tracking #) says that it’s a DHL/USPS “partnership”, and you look and are excited to see that it’s on the truck for delivery that day, well, what they mean is it’s being delivered to the FUCKING POST OFFICE. My new Palm T|X is at the POST OFFICE. I saw a DHL truck today, and thought about asking the driver for my package. Damn it. (At least it’s in the same time zone; it spent two days going through some sort of processing center in Fresno CA. I think online package tracking is a device of Satan.)
Two: I think my wallet was stolen out of the front seat of my car, as it sat in my driveway. Two nice policemen came and dusted for fingerprints. I’ll probably find it in two or three days, in the freezer or some other absurd place. But in the meantime, WHAT a pain in the ass. I’m going to have such fun on Friday, standing in line for my new driver’s license. With my two antsy kids. Not.

Fuck.

My husband talked me into buying a Palm T|X for Christmas. Luckily for me, he talked me into ordering it a few days ago. So now I am oh-so-impatiently watching the Amazon.com web site, hoping to see that my package shipped. He is so nice, isn’t he? He just doesn’t want to have to shop for me, that’s what it is. That, and he’s tired of me whining about the screen on my antique Sony CLIE quickly losing its ability to calibrate. So now I am eagerly looking for updates for my favorite Palm programs: DateBk5 (I get to go up to DateBk6!), ShadowPlan (hasn’t been updated in almost a year! What’s with that?), Ultrasoft Money (upgrading this is going to be a pain in the, um, anatomy – I’m so far behind the upgrade curve on MS Money it’s not funny, at least not to Bill Gates). I will lose the ability to use hacks (PalmOS 5 doesn’t support them) but gain WIFI !! I’ll be able to send email from the back yard. Just got to make sure that the kids understand when mommy’s got her Palm out, NO SQUIRTGUNS.

As is my habit, I got up this morning and took in the paper to read while I do what passes for my pre-walk stretches. Here we are, in June 2006 in America: it’s apparently OK to torture people, spy on citizens with no warrant, start wars for no reason, reveal the names of CIA agents for political gain, hold people in jail with no warrant and no contact with any sort of legal representation – in other words, 230 years of the idea of America down the toilet, and what’s on the front page of my local newspaper?

Sudoku.

I kid you not. It’s bread and circuses, people. Watch your NASCAR and American Idol, eat your McDonalds, and don’t worry your little head about those nasty terrorists – let the professionals take care of all that stuff. Just change the channel, change the channel…

The daughter went off to camp this week, just for 3 days. Girl Scout horse camp, to be exact. I had absolutely no idea what to expect – she’d either HATE it or LOVE it. I halfway expected to get a phone call from the state police, saying that she had run away and been found wandering on the highway. No such fate, thankfully. She LOVED it. Her horse was named Apache, she had a tentlike abode full of apparently nice girls, and there were no large bugs. She wants to go back next year! To see Apache!

It was very very quiet while she was gone. The boy had no one to play with, given that one neighbor child is up north and the other two are taken care of by their grandmother during the day, while the parents work. So, although he would never in a thousand years admit it, I think he was glad to have her home. They had fun at the pool today, going down the water slide in double rafts together (so cute…). She’s off to camp again in early July, no horses this time but a whole week instead of just three days. Then VBS at my work church, and then BACK TO SCHOOL! WOOT!