Almost the weekend...

Hey, Monday's a holiday!

• Rain in the forecast, in time for the weekend.  Bummer.
• Don't you love doing business with companies whose right hand knoweth not what its left hand doeth?
• Example: Last night, I went online to pay my cell phone bill, which is due today.  A message popped up telling me the web payment system was down for maintenance, but I could call an 800# and a friendly associate would help me.  I started to do just that, but when I reached the standard robot customer service tree, decided to just try on line in the morning.
• This morning, the system back up, I logged on and paid without any problems, received a confirmation at the end of the session, as well as a follow up confirmation email.
• About 1-1/2 hours later, I got a SMS thanking me for my payment.  (It's nice to be appreciated.)
• At lunch, another SMS, reminding me that I have a payment due today. (Hey, where's the love?)
• Idiots.
• And no, it wasn't a partial payment or in arrears in any way.   I'm no database architect, but it seems they should fix that. I'd seen that happen before, so I wasn't concerned, but I can imagine some customers would be pretty offended.
• My co-worker today provided a concrete example of how a wife bolsters a husband through affirmation, as per the prior post video.
• Just before lunch (a group lunch, not  just the two of us), she called him and was saying the sweetest things to him - genuinely, not manipulatively.  I've never met him, but have talked with him on the phone briefly (he's a 'shooty' guy) and he seems a good guy, in addition to the good things my co-worker says about him.
• I bet he felt like Superman when he got off the phone with her.
• One of the retailers I shop does a lot of its sales by internet.  Even though it has a modest network of retail stores, it does not offer a 'Ship-to-store' option, and the store selection is considerably more limited than their overall catalog.
• Seems kinda dumb to me.  They send me two or three flyers a month to try to lure me to their stores.  They have trucks delivering to their stores once or twice a week. If I have to go to their store to pick up something ordered, I might just buy something else while I'm there.
• Since I would've already paid online, there's no payment risk (any different from ordering for home delivery).  If I don't pick up what I've ordered and paid for, they can put it on the sales floor, or on a future truck back to the distribution center.
• I should note that this merchandise is not customized, perishable, or easily damaged in transit.
• Like I said, it seems like a marketing mis-step.
• True love ways?  I bought a diamond...coated blade for the oscillating multi-tool, in preparation for some re-tiling projects on the showers.  I've picked up some cool bullnose travertine strips, as well as some florentine-relief border tiles.  Still trying to find some field tile [cheap] that I like.
• Tuna casserole tonight - one of my best in a long time.  Not a recipe I make often, but this one was pretty good - tuna and salmon, macaroni and shells.
• I don't have trouble falling asleep, but don't always feel rested in the morning.
• Recently, I bought some herbals with Melatonin, Valerian root, and Chamomile.  If I take one of those at bedtime, I wake up the next morning and haven't moved a bit overnight.
• I don't dare take two - might not wake up.
• I've received a couple of ads for a nearby company called Wall Beds.  The things you and I know as Murphy beds.  I'd like to check those out.
• But, I wonder if you can simply fold up an unmade bed? That'd be da bomb!
• I'm not an overly enthusiastic bed-maker.
• Co-worker today told me she'd had a significant life change after reading Charles Stanley's  Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers ISBN 1-4002-0090-3.  May have to see if they have that at HPB.
• 101 100 uses for a dead cat.
• Hey, there may be hope for me yet!