Gah gah gah

lyceum took me to Woodbridge post office, where I was told they had no mail for me, and that I was marked VACANT. Current thought is that my hold card didn't get processed, the mail built up, and the carrier marked me vacant and return-to-sender, so the person who needs to be chewed out is at the downtown post office, but I have a number for the carrier. To be called early in the morning tomorrow. But I'll be up early anyway since the Indy ride I have lined up is at 9:15. Bit early for at 12:45 bus, but the shuttle would have me leaving at 8:45, so still an improvement. Yay for Border's two blocks away.

Did valuable mail get lost? Credit card I paid online anyway, cablemodem bill I can do online though I wasn't planning to, London Reviews of Books are gone, I frankly can't say what all else.

As a sign of leet USPS competence, I did get mail yesterday -- for the house next door.

Pictures!

A few days ago I finally bought a digital camera. Impulse decision, as I passed Radio Shack. Consumer Reports has had the Canon Powershot A5-- line as Best Buys, and the current $170 camera was the A550. Might have been smarter to get an older model on eBay; oh well. I unpacked it on the Megabus to Indy, and got the 2GB SmartDisk out of its blister pack while armed only with a key. Woot! Then I took lots of photos, mostly of clouds and a girl passenger. Later some photos of my apartment, and me, and some campus ones I haven't downloaded.

http://mindstalk.net/2007June3gall/

Gallery includes a picture of me (mefaire_small) at Ren Faire, taken by lyceum's friend gothicsquish

seemybooksHUGE is pretty big, but is detailed enough to let you read spine titles. Also, that's about a third of my books. Maybe fewer, considering the case packed with paperbacks.

busgirl_thumbs, at full size (not online), lets me read some writing on the back of her left hand. Looks like FRIDGE. No idea why. I suspect that's better than 20/20 vision, i.e. even if I wore my glasses I wouldn't have read that myself.

The credit card computers got alarmed at my card trying to buy $200 of electronics in Chicago. I'm pleased, frankly; it's good to know they can catch that.