Thursday, December 29, 2005
Slept in. Updated my home page with code to automatically calculate the number of photos and albums when they are added. Also updated the code so that the journal link no longer says "0 months" when the number of months modulus 12 equals zero. Nap. Quick lunch: cold turkey and cheddar sandwich. Patrick and i ran two errands in the Castro. More errands: Walgreen's, The Gap (returned some pants that didn't fit—I ordered size 30 and received pants tagged as size 30 but when I measured them they were size 33!). The Gap has particularly upset me because they've stopped stocking sizes that fit me in their stores saying, "You can just order your clothes online," but now when I order online, they can't even send me the right size! Part of me wants to not give them any more business, so it really irked me when I requested my refund that they were unable to reverse the charge onto the credit card I used unless I had the card with me in the store. I don't normally carry that card, so my only other option was to accept the refunded amount on a gift card. Grrr! Patrick and I spent a fair amount of time searching for dress shirts for me in the men's department at Nordstrom's, but everything was too big. I found that I could fit into size 18 dress jackets in the boy's department, but they only had regular and husky—not slim. The boy's department had something cool I had never seen before—a dress tie with a loop of fabric that had a zipper hidden behind the tie. You pull on the loop and the zipper opens automatically so you can put the loop through your head. You pull on the zipper end and the loop automatically closes. I would have gotten one, but they were all too small for me. Why don't they make these for men or in larger boys sizes? We stopped at Gap Kids to see if they had any boy's ties I could fit but there was only one and we didn't like the style of it. Ran in to student CHK today at Stonestown Mall. I found an auto body shop to get my car repaired today. Dinner at home with Patrick: slow-braised pig ribs, potatoes. We watched Madonna videos streamed from the web and funny videos from Google Video. Particularly hilarious was the video you can find by searching on "funny cats" in Google Video. The video you can find by searching on "fire fart" is also pretty amazing, although I imagine it's likely to cause young men everywhere to try it themselves and firefighters everywhere will just shake their heads with a heavy sigh. Patrick's Amazon Christmas gifts arrived recently. When Ruth W had replaced my order she neglected to include the gift wrap and gift messages from my original order, so they arrived unwrapped. I couldn't bear any further to wrap the gifts after having had so much grief with Amazon, and I'm too tired of dealing with them to contact them for a refund on the gift wrapping right away—I'll do that later. Amazon—you were so good to me before this month! How could you deceive me so?