Paul's Comments

Over a short period of time, not sure if it's been several days or it's just the last day or two, something has happened, but I'm not sure what it is. Whether it's that some burden or fear has lifted, or that something has changed to make things less of a problem, I'm not sure. But there is some sort of either a calm, or a change in conditions, and things seem either nicer, less hectic, or in some way better than they were.

I just got back from spending a few days over at my sister's place celebrating Christmas late, because she had had an injury and wasn't really ready to handle having Christmas on December 25. Maybe it's the clearing of the Christmas holiday, or the New Year's Holiday (that one I don't really celebrate over.) But anyway, I'm back at my place and somehow, things seem different. In some respects, I think this feeling came over me while I was there.

Not exactly sure what it is or was, or whether I'm just imagining it, but we'll see what happens. Anyway, I've got some ideas I'm working on and I am going to look into them now.

But I don't even know that the end of Christmas is causing this "feeling of relief" because it's not all cleared up; a Christmas present I ordered on-line on December 5 has not yet showed up. I had gotten an e-mail confirming that they accepted my order. I got a notice in e-mail that on January 2 that they were at that point shipping the item!

I purchased a couple of 1GB SD cards (because the two cheap cameras I have won't accept anything bigger) on or around December 24, and got them yesterday when I got back from my sister's place. I found the small package in with the incoming mail. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean anything except the seller's rating on eBay was 99.1% positive on 83,000 transactions. Meaning the seller wasn't exactly a newbie who didn't know what they were doing. Yet this seller could get an item to me within a week (at a price of $4.95 each), but the other company couldn't do it in three. Let's say order on the 5th, allow them 21 days, that's Christmas and a week after that to deliver it would still have gotten it to me in time. This is beyond the fact that they're charging outrageous prices for shipping, such that the alleged 2 for $15 price ends up being double, e.g. I'm getting four items shipped and it's costing me about $65.