The son and heir of nothing in particular...

So in my last post I mentioned buying a new hot water tank...Happy to report you can now add air conditioner and furnace to that...well maybe not happy, but as with the water tank they were old and needing replacing...I don't even know what we'll need to do next to this house...

Patty lost her job recently.  She was actually kicking ass and the people that worked for her loved her, but the VP over her was quite frankly a bitch and thought Patty "wasn't a good corporate fit".  This is mainly due to Patty knowing more than said VP and also pointing out where they were doing some pretty sketchy things... So now we're trying to get her a job, or have her file chapter 13 or who knows what as she can handle her bills for another month or so, but then we're fucked.

Ginger is no longer with us.  She was a good dog, but never really felt like she was part of the family.  Patty did everything she could to find her a good home, but in the end we had to take her to local animal control.  We then received a call from the place we originally got her from.  They were pissed that we turned Ginger in, but when we had called the rescue they said "we don't have the space".  Patty has terrible allergies and Ginger was a large dog who shed quite a bit.  The other bad thing (in my mind) is that I had asked Patty not to get Ginger in the 1st place.  She got her when I was living in the apartment in Swansea but Ginger quickly became "my dog" even though I never wanted this particular dog.  I tried to be decent to her, but my way of being kind to animals is to not bring them into my house where I feel guilty if they don't get the care and life they deserve (much more I can say on this subject, but I'll move on for now...)

Some travel coming up...get to hit Minneapolis (actually Eagan, MN) next week.  Then I'm back home for a few days before heading off to Phish in Atlanta.  I get to stay in Atlanta for a week after as I'm taking a course to help get my Certified Cloud Security Professional.  Gonna see how the contract re-bid plays out and if we don't win, I'm hoping the new cert will land me a decent job...

Other things running through my mind in no order: where we're going to end up living, will I have enough for retirement, will I lose the weight I want to and other middle aged man thoughts...

Anyway, not even sure I know how to blog anymore...

more later
EZ

The day I finally went insane...

First off, Happy New Year!  Okay, now that that's over I can vent about my experiences with Duluth Trading Co.  Tried to order Aidan some more pants after Christmas (he showed up here with only 1 pair of jeans that I ended up throwing out because they had a rip in the ass).  I placed the initial order for three pairs of pants.  When I received the conformation email I noticed they had Illinois vice Wisconsin as the ship to state.  The zip was correct and it probably would have made it there eventually....but just to be safe I sent an email correcting the state.  I received a message back stating that the order had been dropped from their system...great now I had to go and order it all again...I did.  And soon after received a message stating that two pairs of the pants weren't available any more (the price had already gone up when I placed the order the 2nd time) and that they wouldn't charge me for the items that were out of stock and they would just send the one pair....Sooooo I start looking at my credit card statement today and notice that not only do I have a charge for the one pair, but an additional charge for the full amount...I had already ordered more pants off Amazon at this point.  I emailed Duluth trading, they said I was wrong and contact credit card company...I did and put in a dispute (I currently have a refund showing as pending)...so you would think that's it...except that I changed the way my Gmail shows the messages from conversation format back to normal message format and found that I had a missing email from Duluth showing a shipment with 3 pairs of pants and a tracking number...I checked and it showed delivered yesterday.  I'm now waiting on Aidan to confirm just how many pairs of pants he's received over the last couple of days...I'm happy if he ended up with extra, but Duluth shouldn't have sent items for a cancelled order.  So anyway, at this point I'm almost hoping the 3 pairs didn't make it there so I can say "never received"....otherwise I'll have to call and correct with CC company...I can't believe the ordeal would be this draining...must be what middle age is...and I don't like it...


In other notes...Holidays went smooth.  Enjoyed have both boys here.  I started at the McKendrie Metroplex the other day.  So far I've only run on the indoor track and did an aqua fit class.  I'm going to run again today and I've got yoga tomorrow...should be interesting.  I also have a float set up for tomorrow thanks to Patty...and I might take myself to lunch after that at 1818 Chophouse thanks to Julian.


So if some confusion over a couple of pairs of pants is the worst thing that happens this year I won't be too disappointed. 


Well okay I also had to pay for a new water heater.  Both of ours went out.  Not really sure if they were both really broken, but they were both pretty old so I guess I'm glad we're now down to 1 tank.  It did leak out the top yesterday, but they were quick to come and seal it up...something you can't really tell if it's going to happen until you put some stress on the system, so no worries...nothing damaged.


More later
EZ