Thu 16 Jul 26: So... not sure what the deal is with Scamazon -- in a good and / or usual-suspects way Used to be, when you bought things there, all orders would ship on their own timeframes. Someone at Scammie figured out, well if Fyooch is going to order three things 3d apart from each other... why not redirect the shipments from vendors / other warehouses to a central one, where the separate orders can be concatenated into one then shipped to his flaky arse? Saves us headache three ways: 1) former longer-transit items can ride with shorter ones, but shortest ones now get backburnered to mid-schedule -- customer won't care because they'll get a whole bunch of their separate orders all at once with minimal tardines; 2) saves USPS having to deliver all those separate orders in their separate packaging on-time, so it doesn't reflect back on Scammie; 3) free shipping will cost less, esp to AK, Guam and Puerto Rico, as most of the jinking getting orders glommed together, will happen domestically. If that's the driver behind what I'm seeing, well at least this time they've included a benefit for the customer this time I've had so many single orders arrive late, they've stopped apologising for it -- typical of a 'where else you gonna shop?' attitude so ingrained on this island. So glad that's done with... but almost behooves one to order two things a day or so apart, on purpose, if this is what results. And that's part of the problem. If Scammie were properly insuring every order fulfilled exactly as planned, this kind of pivot wouldn't be necessary, thus never implemented. But at the scale Amazon operates at, and the rather flippant things it's funding with its imperfect-and-fine-with-in market dominance? Impossible. But since it's still raking in tens of billions globally, not as if attention to detail has relevance anymore -- not for them anyway. So rather chuffed my furthest-arriving order with a former date of July 27th is now forecast to be here tmw (nah, Sat or Mon -- still a full week ahead of what the first claim was)... if any of that's remotely gonna happen (and Scammie has no qualms about reneging to Hawai'i addresses from exp), a genuine step forward in making its system better. Some am really glad will be here early, as really need them Oh -- and just talked to a Costco rep in-store today -- as far as what the red-vests know, Costco is discontinuing their blue nitrile gloves from Kirkland. Wait -- so now I have to use automotive nitrile gloves to protect myself? Was just gushing about the amazing new properties of these new blue gloves (resistant to chemo drugs, fit better), and they're gone. Wt f***... May be able to get them online still, will check after this post That were a kick in the nads hoping bodywork would be more safe for this prac, given rising temps are making bugs more aggressive in a dominant post-truth society in this country Bodywork-ish... took a walk this AM with a much-less-aggressive route... and feel pretty good. Rather tight in the R hip, so did some aligning and found a TrP forming in the posterior edge of the gluteus medius, a notorious muscle for them, when starting new exercise routines with lower body. Glad to see this the only negative from the new walking location -- have already been scouting out new ones for a future when each 30-min walk will be close to a mini-hike. Our ancestors didn't know the difference even 2 generations ago (for me, not a Zoomer) -- so no f***ing whining Fyooch -- just head down, get it done Need to watch the knee tho -- esp wonky today, having done that half-max walk rather tired and out of it (didn't sleep great last night). Still did the job so not going to equate it to the glute ache... but the closest thing besides that, to putting a hitch in this streak of progress
