Oct. 14th, 2014

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HEY GUESS WHAT. FedEx claims that nobody was home at 10:30 AM when they tried to deliver our JapanRail passes! You know...nobody except MY HUSBAND WHO WORKS FROM HOME. And not only does the door tag say it's NOT going to be redelivered tomorrow, they say we have to go up to their facility at I20 and I35 to pick it up! That would be the NORTH intersection of them, not the south, which is far closer to where we actually live.

I phoned them and the person on the phone could only say "It shows here that delivery was attempted." And claimed that delivery would be reattempted tomorrow, but the door tag says we have to pick it up. I said I would like to register a very strong complaint that the driver didn't knock or ring the bell, and she said she'd let the station hub know. and then I sent a couple of very strong tweets at @FedEx and @FedExHelp on the off chance that someone was actually listening, but I am not optimistic.

I have no idea why people claim FedEx is better than UPS. I have had problems like this about 50% of the time I've had to use FedEx, and many, many, many times fewer with UPS. A FedEx driver even once left a signature-only package containing a credit card that was overnighted to me at my door without knocking--I was at home waiting for it.
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ZOMG my angry tweet at FedEx worked (see previous entry)! A PR guy replied and offered to elevate it. :D
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(1) Got a phone call from Fed Ex; they're going to attempt redelivery today. Yay! (see previous posts).

(2) Note to self: next time you make cassoulet, pretty plz remember to pull ALL the bay leaves out. *ack, pthbtbtbt* Eating a whole bay leaf is kind of nasty.
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Bug Rachel, not Writer Rachel!

We've got something that looks like these on our tomatoes now, and have lost 2 tomatoes already. Suggestions? :) I did just go out there and squirt soapy water (the 1 tbsp hand soap/1 pint water ratio) on them just to feel like I'd done something.

I think the crape myrtle bark scale crisis is over--we ended up cutting off 3 of the worst-loking limbs and spraying soapy water all over the rest a few times, and we haven't noticed the white stuff spreading any.


(But yay...finally getting more tomatoes! There are several little green ones starting to grow, and we'd like to actually eat them! There's also 3 jalapenos hanging off the jalapeno plant...need to look up when to harvest them.)

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