srsly

i’m glad that’s over. nothing but an entire month of waiting and disappointment. to start things off, my new bike wheels that i had start purchasing IN JULY were finished early in the month. the rest of the month was spent waiting on shipping that just never seemed to happen. this whole process has been a constant annoyance; it should not have taken this long. the first delay was because nobody at the shop my cousin works at gave the package to the fedex guy. so it just sat in the back of the shop for two weeks. my cousin then brought it to a fedex/kinko’s himself to ship it. it then sat in the back of that shop because nobody at a fucking fedex store gave the package to a fedex delivery guy. they are scheduled to be delivered today. i’m assuming something will happen to the truck on it’s way to my office. the driver nor the truck or it’s contents will be harmed but it will be prevented from getting to me and putting wheels in my hands. fedex hasn’t posted a damned thing on the tracking information so who knows. the following sentiment deserves it’s own space:

fedex fucking sucks. our receptionist doesn’t like them because they’re slow and expensive.
also, tessa’s grandma died. that’s probably one of the worst things that can happen to a person, losing someone close to you. that’s all i’m going to say about that.
then last week, right after i placed an order for some very delicate marine life, my aquarium decides to have a nitrate problem. i can’t figure out what the issue is. i’ve tested damned near everything i can think of except the water i get from the grocery store; which since it doesn’t explicitly say that it is de-ionized water (it only says that it is reverse osmosis) i have to assume that it is not pure enough for a saltwater aquarium. this prompted the purchase of an RO/DI unit that i will place under my sink in the bathroom and make my own damned water.
to top it all off work has just absolutely sucked. there’s no other way to put it. it sucked so bad that i made nearly three times the old cap for what can be earned on a week of pager duty. posting real numbers is tacky so we’ll just say i didn’t sleep very much that week.
it’s now november. a month that is usually pretty good. lots of people i know and love have birthdays in this month including myself. though i don’t really look forward to birthdays anymore. after you hit 21 the only thing you can kind of look forward to is 25 when your car insurance drops. but that’s not really something to go “whee” about. so here’s hoping november won’t suck.