What the fuck, America?

What. The. Actual. Fuck?

Back in March, I ordered three bracelets off of eBay, one from one seller and two from a different seller. The estimated delivery date from both sellers gave a window that ended April 27th. ( more of the story here!Collapse )

Advice? I don't want to "steal" the bracelets, but they *are* awfully late and I don't know if I want to spend the suspected time and effort trying to sort this out. Although the packages are awfully small so maybe Canada Post misplaced them for a while? (The postmarks do read March 7th and 11th.)

Does anyone watch Sleepy Hollow who can tell me WTF JUST HAPPENED??!????

A somewhat belated happy birthday to quietlybemused! I hope you had a great day, m'dear. =D

( turns out that I had a lot to say about my water heaterCollapse )

I'm interested to see how this continues. Reliance got nailed not so long ago for making it ridiculously difficult for customers to cancel their contracts, so I'm not sure if that means they've revamped their services or if they're one of those companies who finds it easier/cheaper to pay millions in fines and just keep breaking the rules.

Two weeks. Seven seasons.* One hundred sixty-two episodes.** Two movies. Way, way too many hours. And I have made it through my X-Files re-watch.

S1 especially is a blast from the past. Scully's awful suits (with Bonus Shoulder Pads)! Ginormous cell phones! Smoking in government and other public buildings! MICROFICHE!!

I always forget that Mulder really is kind of a condescending jerk most of the time. And Scully really does not like most women, especially if they're personally or professionally threatening. Skinner is more wishy-washy than I remember. KRYCEK!!! I still hate Diana Fowley with the passion of a thousand burning suns (or however that saying goes). And the UST still makes me grin like a fool.

Also, I still have no freaking idea what the heck happened to Samantha.

It's funny how so much time has passed and my favourite episodes are pretty much still my favourite episodes, while the ones I didn't much care for are still generally of low interest to me now. I guess my tastes in television haven't changed all that much in the past two (!!!) decades. Although some scenes in the last bit of S7 take on new meaning when you know M&S hooked up sometime around then. (I am still a little resentful we never actually got to SEE that, btw. Total rip-off, Chris Carter. I put a HELLA lot of time and emotional energy into that relationship and it would've been nice to see the payoff.)

I am now reasonably prepped for The X-Files' return at the end of the month. \o/


*I know there are nine seasons, but I didn't much care for S8 or S9 so I haven't bought them. I may at some point if I can find them for fifteen or twenty bucks. I didn't much care for S7 either but I do so love the ep all things, so.

**for the first seven seasons, if I did the math right (never a guarantee)

When I checked my hotmail account this morning, there was a message saying I had signed in to gmail from an unrecognized location at 4:19 this morning. There was a second message with the same timestamp thanking me for adding gmail to my google account, and shows a gmail address that I don't know.

So I followed the 'don't recognize this activity?' link, and they want me to log in. Except when I try to log in with my hotmail address, which is what I've always done, IT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE MY HOTMAIL ACCOUNT. This is what I use to log in to YouTube, as well, and I cannot log in to YouTube. (Thankfully there's nothing there except playlists, but I am very bothered by this.)

So... suggestions? Because now I can't even log in to fix my security updates....

UPDATE:
I reconnected my hotmail account. When I did that, they still had my password on file. WTF? Or maybe that was firefox's doing. (I have since changed my password on google, and am in the process of changing my hotmail password. Hotmail makes this ridiculously difficult.)

But all of my playlists on YouTube are still deleted. :(

Is there a way to get an actual google-related person to speak to about this? I am disturbed by the attachment of an unknown gmail address to my hotmail account.

Title: Not Zebras
Author: Shane Vansen
Category: drabble, post-series
Spoilers: S5 episodes 8-13ish
Length: 100 words
Disclaimer: It's probably best that they're not mine; I'd screw it up. Haven, its characters and storylines, and the overall concept belong to people much more creative than I.
Summary: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Author's Notes: Not the way I think it's really going to end, but.

Thanks as always to december21st for the beta.

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Apparently, TV is getting me new episodes of The X-Files for my birthday!

(Even if the commercials are stupid. I'm just holding out hope that it's bad editing on the advertisers' parts and not a reflection of the actual eps.)

The map here fills in with the colour of the leading/winning political party as you watch. I love technology.

BUH-BYE, CONSERVATIVES. DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE @$$ ON YOUR WAY OUT.

*knocks on ALL THE WOOD to cancel out possible jinxes*