Just got back from my restocking trip to the grocery store. $115--ouch! But, I now have things in my freezer that will last me several weeks, which is good. I decided to toss those sausages on the recommendation of the butcher; he said I could try and risk it, but if it were him, he'd pitch them, so I did.

Now I must do some work for a few hours, at least. I'll be working from home again tomorrow if the power isn't up by then.

I cannot wrap my head around the idea that black and red are a bad color combination.

why, that's like saying black and pink are a bad color combination!

Huh.

I've been bickering with T-Mobile over problems my (warrantied) phone was having. After much discussion, they finally agreed to send me a replacement. Which was broken. So then they sent another one.

As background, I have all packages sent to my work address since my postal carrier can't reliably deliver things to the right block, let alone address, and doesn't leave notices. One the first phone they sent, they sent it to my name at the building address. Which is an 80 story building with a gazillion companies. Fortunately, we manage the building so it got to me anyway. On the second phone, I asked them to make sure to include my company name. Which they did. And sent the phone to Company Name, Address. WITHOUT MY NAME. And it arrived while I was out on PTO. So yeah, after much digging with various people, that phone will never be seen again.

I called to bitch them out on Monday and they said they would "look into it." And just now, I got a text message that seems to suggest that they are actually sending me out a third replacement without fighting about it. Did we have an apocalypse and I didn't notice?

And just now, I got a text message that seems to suggest that they are actually sending me out a third replacement without fighting about it. Did we have an apocalypse and I didn't notice?

Wow, that's impressive. When UPS left my T-Mobile phone on the doorstep and it got stolen, T-Mobile tried to claim that I would have to wait six weeks to get it replaced--just in case I was trying to defraud them, you see.

I think the T&S's stance on black derives more from an overcorrection of the default to black than anything about actual combinations that work. If you stay within your palette, most colors within it will work together. So, if black works for you, so do true red and bright pink.

just in case I was trying to defraud them, you see.

Right? That's pretty much what I was expecting, especially since it took a while to discover the problem and report it to them.

The Fug Girls on the SWINTON spread: [link]

I am bored and twitchy and not getting anything useful done. I would clean, except SUPPOSEDLY the tile guys will be here again tomorrow, and they are ALLEGEDLY going to clean up their own mess. Which I will believe....never.

And now I just found a videotape with an episode from the first season of Heroes. Yes, I still have a VCR.

(Hi, Mohinder. You're cute.)

Hi, Mohinder. You're cute.

Are you watching Covert Affairs? I've finally grown to appreciate the new hair. And next week Gorham goes paramilitary (flashbacks to when he had sight, plus a psycho vengeance mission). I'm so on board.

Where's Milo Ventimiglia? Did he disappear into Michael Rosenbaum land?

I am eating a grilled cheese sandwich. It's not making me as happy as I'd hoped.