Thursday, June 29, 2006
I received my 2nd custom shirt from Land's End a few days ago and finally found time to try it on. It has the exact same problem that the first one did, despite their walking me through adjustments to my previous order. My feedback to them was this: "Your custom shirt service is extremely disappointing because I told you with my first order exactly what I needed and you simply ignored it. This is the reorder which was supposed to fix everything but it has the exact same problem as the first one. I will never trust Land's End again." The problem was that the shirt was simply too big. I specified armpit-to-armpit and bicep-laid-flat measurements in my first order and Land's End sent me a shirt that didn't meet those measurements. I called to reorder, but they could not guarantee what those measurements would come out to before you order, nor, it seems, can they adjust them. (For the shirt I ordered, they were, respectively, 19 inches, and 8 inches.) I suppose I will need to find a tailor now. This online custom shirt business is not working for me. Only yogurt for breakfast. Today was very productive. I created a backup ghost image of the Dell laptop we're configuring so I could restore it when I'm done testing with it. I downloaded ISO files from ImageBuilder and burned them to CD-ROM. I reimaged the Dell laptop with the newly burned CD-ROMs to test the build I created in ImageBuilder. There are some problems, which I documented. I took photos of the Dell laptop and uploaded them to Flickr and added notes to clarify things like what ports are what. I went to the doctor. I bought new Muni passes for Patrick and me. I followed up with Apple on the custom store we're setting up with them. I followed up with Apple licensing on our QuickTime license agreement—they finally fixed one but not the other. I helped Julia get a list of filenames into electronic format by using a DOS window and Microsoft Word. Lunch was two mini meals of leftovers during the day, one around 11:30 AM and the other around 4:00 PM. Late dinner at home by myself at 9:00 PM: leftovers. Patrick is at Andrew Holleran's reading tonight. Felice Picano is going to be there as well. Patrick received an encouraging word from his agent today, but nothing more concrete. Chris sent me some links to some OS X Flickr screen savers (thanks!), and I tried several of them but didn't like any of them enough to keep. The best was ShuffleSaver, but I wasn't happy with the low resolution of the images it downloaded. Weight training: plank, bridge.