Daily Archives: September 18, 2015
A Tale of Two Packages . . .
Last Tuesday, the 15th, I mailed off two packages via the USPS’ Priority Mail. One of them went to my friend Nick Russell, who’s up in Washington State with his wife Terry. The other one went to my daughter-in-law Linda, who’s down south of Houston, in Friendswood, TX. Both of them were supposed to arrive yesterday, Thursday.
But only one of them did, the one to Nick. The tracking on both showed them leaving Carthage for Shreveport, La Tuesday night, but after that, the paths differ. Nick’s package went on to Portland, OR, and then Seaview, WA where he picked it up today. And the tracking showed all that, including what time he picked it up at the Post Office today.
However, Linda’s package went to Shreveport and then disappeared, at least according to the tracking. According to that, it’s still sitting in Shreveport. So if it doesn’t show up by Monday, I’ll have to call them.
Nothing’s ever easy. But then if it was, life would be really boring.
Today was grocery day/errand day so I headed into Carthage about 11am. And after my Wal-Mart stop and before my Chicken stop, I stopped in at Tractor Supply. I wanted to pick up a couple of electric fence posts to mount my Mighty Mule Driveway Monitor transmitters on.
The higher I can get the transmitter, the further away I can receive the signal. And these 4 ft plastic electric fence posts are perfect.
The Mighty Mule works by sensing large pieces of metal moving by, i.e., cars and trucks. Which means it’s not affected by wind, light, pets, etc., just metal. But this also means that it doesn’t like any metal nearby, because it reduces the sensitivity of the system. So these plastic ones are perfect for that.
I think I mentioned that I was going to order another Mighty Mule to cover trucks leaving the pad, so I was happy to see that Tractor Supply had one in stock, and I probably would have gotten it, but the box had been opened, as well as the fact that it was $10 more than on Amazon, so I took a pass on it.
Used and more expensive is a bad combination.
Coming home, I made a stop at our new favorite place, Chicken Express. And this time I was in and out pretty quickly since I didn’t let anyone in line ahead of me who ordered 250 chicken tenders.
I only fall for that once.
Well, maybe twice if she was cute.
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Thought for the Day:
“I babble, therefore I am?” – Tisiphone to Ravirin
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