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Spring Cleaning!
Jan. 28th, 2012 01:32 pmMy office (and nearby areas) has been getting cleaner recently, which is always a plus.
Yesterday, I finished up my long-term project of sorting and organizing Skotos' files from the last several years. I did most of it last summer, and then had the last 20 or 30 things to file, which sat through fall and into winter. But it's now done, which means that all of the older files have been moved to storage. Yay! Floor and desk space in my office!
Today I hauled 2 bags of comics 1 mile to downtown Berkeley's Half-Price Books. This was mostly stuff that I'd replaced with collections over the last couple of years, but I also pulled out a few things that were just junk, since I was planning the outing. Even with a cart, hauling 2 bags of comics takes some work!
So, this was an experiment because the last couple of bags of comics I gave away and before that I left them out with a free sign. Since downtown Half-Price sells individual comics and even bagged sets of individuals, I figured it was worth a try. I know that the store totally low-balls offers, so I figured out a price that would be acceptable before I left, and that was $10/bag or $20. I had to wait 40 minutes, but then they offered me $40. So that was probably worth the waiting and hauling. I bought a copy of Sandman Mystery Theatre volume 2, as I've wanted to replace my single issues of that series, and volume 2 goes for silly prices online because it's out of print. I pocketed the other $29.50 and will probably use it to buy new comics next week.
After lunch I hauled my cart over to Ace Hardware, where I bought 3 plastic bins, which I then hauled home on my cart (That's efficiency!). They're for storing stuff in the garage. My most immediate goal is to get games into the bin that I intend to sell at the auction at Endgame later this year.
I also hauled some priority mail boxes up out of the garage when I got home, as I am sending some more books and games off to an eBay seller on the East Coast, who'll get rid of them for me.
Whew! Spring Cleaning indeed!
And I have a new arch nemesis in the world of crappy companies. It's usps.com. This week, or sometime recently, they stopped delivering things in a timely fashion. Instead I find USPS records showing things setting at the Berkeley post office for 4 or 5 days before making it the last .5 mile to their destination. And this is over several different packages for both Kimberley and me (most of which still haven't arrived!).
When they finally arrive, it's days after they were supposed to.
Here's the one package I've actually gotten since they fell apart last week or so:
Ay! This is why the US Postal Service is slowly going out of business. Well, that and the fact that they think getting rid of Saturday delivery and overnight deliveries is something that's going to make people happier to use them.
But ... this is actually worse than typical USPS stupidity. Someone at downtown Berkeley USPS should be fired, as our delivery is suddenly totally unacceptable.
Yesterday, I finished up my long-term project of sorting and organizing Skotos' files from the last several years. I did most of it last summer, and then had the last 20 or 30 things to file, which sat through fall and into winter. But it's now done, which means that all of the older files have been moved to storage. Yay! Floor and desk space in my office!
Today I hauled 2 bags of comics 1 mile to downtown Berkeley's Half-Price Books. This was mostly stuff that I'd replaced with collections over the last couple of years, but I also pulled out a few things that were just junk, since I was planning the outing. Even with a cart, hauling 2 bags of comics takes some work!
So, this was an experiment because the last couple of bags of comics I gave away and before that I left them out with a free sign. Since downtown Half-Price sells individual comics and even bagged sets of individuals, I figured it was worth a try. I know that the store totally low-balls offers, so I figured out a price that would be acceptable before I left, and that was $10/bag or $20. I had to wait 40 minutes, but then they offered me $40. So that was probably worth the waiting and hauling. I bought a copy of Sandman Mystery Theatre volume 2, as I've wanted to replace my single issues of that series, and volume 2 goes for silly prices online because it's out of print. I pocketed the other $29.50 and will probably use it to buy new comics next week.
After lunch I hauled my cart over to Ace Hardware, where I bought 3 plastic bins, which I then hauled home on my cart (That's efficiency!). They're for storing stuff in the garage. My most immediate goal is to get games into the bin that I intend to sell at the auction at Endgame later this year.
I also hauled some priority mail boxes up out of the garage when I got home, as I am sending some more books and games off to an eBay seller on the East Coast, who'll get rid of them for me.
Whew! Spring Cleaning indeed!
And I have a new arch nemesis in the world of crappy companies. It's usps.com. This week, or sometime recently, they stopped delivering things in a timely fashion. Instead I find USPS records showing things setting at the Berkeley post office for 4 or 5 days before making it the last .5 mile to their destination. And this is over several different packages for both Kimberley and me (most of which still haven't arrived!).
When they finally arrive, it's days after they were supposed to.
Here's the one package I've actually gotten since they fell apart last week or so:
January 27, 2012 02:44:00 PM Berkeley CA US DeliveredNote not only the 5 day hiatus at the Berkeley Post Office, but also the fact that it took two days to get delivered! It went out on a truck on the 26th and didn't arrive for something like 29 hours later!
January 26, 2012 08:50:00 AM Berkeley CA US Out for delivery
January 21, 2012 11:35:00 AM Berkeley CA US Arrival Scan
Ay! This is why the US Postal Service is slowly going out of business. Well, that and the fact that they think getting rid of Saturday delivery and overnight deliveries is something that's going to make people happier to use them.
But ... this is actually worse than typical USPS stupidity. Someone at downtown Berkeley USPS should be fired, as our delivery is suddenly totally unacceptable.