I really need to figure that out--just added it, but haven't really actually used my Facebook account much. Scrabulous might be the first thing to get me using it, once I get around to figuring it out.
BTW, have you received a package from me or did the postal service manage to lose it (beginning to suspect the latter--unfortunately I didn't track it).
If it's marked from something like "COLES" then it's at the post office as of yesterday afternoon and I have a slip to pick it up after work today. :) If it's not, then ... hm.
I'm thinking it wouldn't fit into my mailbox - I had a BPAL package in there from Saturday, since I didn't pick up my mail then - and the package lockers at the complex were full. Only once have they ever left packages at the apartment office when that happened, and I have no idea why they don't usually do that.
What was confusing about the slip is that it's got FINAL NOTICE on it, aggressively highlighted. Which panicked me for a second, because I'd never gotten any previous slips, but then I realized it said the package was delivered yesterday, and wasn't getting sent back until the 20th. So I think FINAL NOTICE really means ONLY NOTICE. Or nobody ever picks their packages up - it's not like the post office is only open during normal work hours or anything, sheesh.
There are 2 POs near me and the differences are astounding. The one I mail things from, because it's closer, is full of nice people who are genuinely glad to help you. The one that handles my mail is full of people who view you as an impediment to getting their job done.
My set up is an odd mix of that--the post office that handles my mail has helpful people and utterly lousy hours. When I'm expecting packages, I'll leave elaborate notes on my back door for the mail carrier and he is kind enough to actually leave the packages then, even when they are insured.
The post office I wind up mailing from because it is open late enough that I can actually make it there after work has folks that must be related to your post office employees. Though they were really nice to me for a while a few years back after one pushed me so far over the edge that I e-mailed a complaint in with play-by-play reporting of everything that happened to me that day at the counter. I was rather shocked that they actually took the complaint seriously, but that woman (who had been nasty and snipey with me for two years before I snapped) looked pale and terrified the next time I came in, so they obviously did.
I tend to get whipped in Boggle as well. On the other hand, I usually do well at Apples to Apples and Fictionary (which we play with an actual unabridged dictionary, not with a boxed game set).
It also seems to be Facebook week ... I just got an invite from one of my Shejidan pals to check hers out. So I guess I get Flickr, Yahoo, and Facebook accounts all in the same week. Sheesh.
It's been years since I played Boggle. I've played Apples to Apples once and loved it. I tend to do reasonably well with Trivial Pursuit and lousy at any game that requires strategy.
I also have a fiendishly difficult game put out by the Trivial Pursuit people many years ago called Ubi, which is basically Trivial Pursuit with geography. I love it, everyone else hates it. Best played in teams, if you hate being wrong most of the time. XD
Apples to Apples has become the extended family's favorite game. We tend to include the "Sour Apples" variant where the judge can vote either for the best matchup or the wackiest mismatch. Much fun as the multigenerational crowd laughs itself silly. And we also derive a certain amusement from periodically applying to ourselves the green apple cards that we're holding onto as records of our scores: "Let's see - now I'm sexy, scary, magnificent, obnoxious, and brilliant!"
Looks like you could get it cheap from the UK (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UBI-by-Horn-Abbot-International-Ltd-VGC-Complete_W0QQitemZ350003389129QQihZ022QQcategoryZ235QQcmdZViewItem), if the person auctioning it is willing to ship internationally. :D
Or one for not so cheap (http://cgi.ebay.com/The-World-According-to-UBI-Trivia-Game-1986_W0QQitemZ160188305676QQihZ006QQcategoryZ2530QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) from US eBay, ending in 9 hours.
Social networking site vaguely similar to Myspace. You sign up on it and can bling out your profile, and find people through it, etc. I pretty much just play Scrabble on it. :)
facebook.com. You used to have to have a .edu email address to sign up, but everyone can sign up now, hence the recent sudden bump in interest.
Seems like I'm the only person who cannot find you on Facebook, dammit! :'( But I'll certainly try the scrabble thingy, still have to get the hang of the whole place.
I apparently completely forgot the rules of Scrabble, because I spent like a week thinking the quadruple-letter score boxes were double-word score boxes, and the double-word and double-letter score ones were just decoration... I'm kind of losing all my games. (And my sister, who plays off-the-internet Scrabble with great intensity and at the slightest provocation, keeps playing stuff for like 70 points.)
I got slightly better when I discovered that right-clicking the board allowed me to change it to a numbered one that gave me the scores. But then all my opponents discovered it, too. :D
I've got one opponent who played all of her letters twice in a row. My goal in that game became to lose not too embarrassingly.
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BTW, have you received a package from me or did the postal service manage to lose it (beginning to suspect the latter--unfortunately I didn't track it).
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What was confusing about the slip is that it's got FINAL NOTICE on it, aggressively highlighted. Which panicked me for a second, because I'd never gotten any previous slips, but then I realized it said the package was delivered yesterday, and wasn't getting sent back until the 20th. So I think FINAL NOTICE really means ONLY NOTICE. Or nobody ever picks their packages up - it's not like the post office is only open during normal work hours or anything, sheesh.
There are 2 POs near me and the differences are astounding. The one I mail things from, because it's closer, is full of nice people who are genuinely glad to help you. The one that handles my mail is full of people who view you as an impediment to getting their job done.
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The post office I wind up mailing from because it is open late enough that I can actually make it there after work has folks that must be related to your post office employees. Though they were really nice to me for a while a few years back after one pushed me so far over the edge that I e-mailed a complaint in with play-by-play reporting of everything that happened to me that day at the counter. I was rather shocked that they actually took the complaint seriously, but that woman (who had been nasty and snipey with me for two years before I snapped) looked pale and terrified the next time I came in, so they obviously did.
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*grin*
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I'm never as good at Scrabble as I think I ought to be. When we play on our Cape Cod vacations, the Mr. and my friend K always whip my ass good.
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I tend to get whipped in Boggle as well. On the other hand, I usually do well at Apples to Apples and Fictionary (which we play with an actual unabridged dictionary, not with a boxed game set).
It also seems to be Facebook week ... I just got an invite from one of my Shejidan pals to check hers out. So I guess I get Flickr, Yahoo, and Facebook accounts all in the same week. Sheesh.
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I also have a fiendishly difficult game put out by the Trivial Pursuit people many years ago called Ubi, which is basically Trivial Pursuit with geography. I love it, everyone else hates it. Best played in teams, if you hate being wrong most of the time. XD
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Apples to Apples has become the extended family's favorite game. We tend to include the "Sour Apples" variant where the judge can vote either for the best matchup or the wackiest mismatch. Much fun as the multigenerational crowd laughs itself silly. And we also derive a certain amusement from periodically applying to ourselves the green apple cards that we're holding onto as records of our scores: "Let's see - now I'm sexy, scary, magnificent, obnoxious, and brilliant!"
I'll have to look up Ubi! I love maps and stuff.
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And oh yes - there's a few questions whose answer is "That's a red herring!" which makes it even harder. XD
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Or one for not so cheap (http://cgi.ebay.com/The-World-According-to-UBI-Trivia-Game-1986_W0QQitemZ160188305676QQihZ006QQcategoryZ2530QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) from US eBay, ending in 9 hours.
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Anyway, what is this facebook I've been hearing so much about? Is a good thing?
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facebook.com. You used to have to have a .edu email address to sign up, but everyone can sign up now, hence the recent sudden bump in interest.
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But I'll certainly try the scrabble thingy, still have to get the hang of the whole place.
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I've got one opponent who played all of her letters twice in a row. My goal in that game became to lose not too embarrassingly.