I feel certain that Mom would be proud, Becks.
Does Bridgeplate belong to a different keiretsu?
Standpipe already knows and disapproves.
An imaginary online friend of mine once told a detailed story about having gone to Walmart, or Costco, or some such, seeking a couple of muffin tins, cookie sheets, or ... yes, it was pie plates.
They'd been advertised at two for however much, but at the register she was charged the non-sale price. Horrors; she stomped about, put up a stink, and was finally, after half an hour, refunded the buck seventy nine. She was so proud.
I gave her shit for needing two more pie plates than the two she already had.
I will never live this down.
Sorta On-Topic: One of these pools has appeared in my backyard as of this afternoon, courtesy of the new roommates. I was amused to find a tech-support phone number on the box, but I couldn't bring myself to prank call 'em. ("Uh, there's like, no water in it, man.")
Shit. My pool party broke the blog. You're all uninvited.
The filter thingy on that pool looks like some kind of Dalek, who has extruded a trapping mechanism to catch and digest the unwary humans.
EXTERMINATE!
If you ignore the Dalek, the pool looks fun. Makes me wistful for a backyard.
I'm impressed. When I was on the phone last night asking about my refund, I mentioned to the girl I was talking to that this looked fishy. She just called me (!) to say that she'd done more investigation into that and it looks like the USPS lost my package so she's sending a new one. There's some service for you.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable trusting the recommendations of someone who has that kind of person-to-person access to Amazon employees. I'm not saying you've been compromised; I'm just not saying you haven't been compromised.
She must have known she was dealing with a D-list internet celebrity.
Speaking of Daleks, did anyone else see the two most recently aired episodes of Season 3 of the new Doctor Who and come to the conclusion that the only explanation for how gut-wrenchingly bad they were compared to previous episodes is that the writer must be a junior high student who won some kind of contest?
No?
Just me then?