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[pez]

I stayed home today because I couldn't face staring at the computer, which is why I hadn't posted all day (wow!) Did go out to town to buy stuff, came back, crashed, slept off the headache, woke up to eat and am now finishing the Soldier Blue costume. I wonder if the wig will arrive in time or if it'll get stuck in the upcoming post strike. Want to make his headphones, actually, rather than use my sprayed-white ones because his 'phones are really special in shape. But I'm not sure how to do it.

LJ Support said that the disappearing comment problem is being looked at and once it's fixed there should be an announcement on lj_releases.

Using eBay is getting annoying. The deluge of emails they send you for your purchases, even if you used buy-it-now so there's no "you've made a bid" or "you've been outbidded" emails already!

"You bought this item on eBay" from eBay
"Receipt for your payment" from PayPal
"Thank you for your payment" auto email from eBay set by seller
"Congratulations on your purchase" auto email from eBay set by seller
"Your item has been despatched" auto email from eBay set by seller
And maybe in a week's time, I'll get an auto email asking me to leave feedback!

ALL I DID WAS BUY A FEW POLYSTYRENE EGGS. THIS IS MORE COMMUNICATION THAN I GOT WHEN I RENTED MY HOUSE. orz

It's curious that a few of the people commenting on [Siege/Surrender] said they felt a bit thrown off by the mention of trains and telephones. Is it really that hard to imagine? They have teleporters and visistones, I thought it's not too weird for them to have ways to travel and communicate. Trains and phones really aren't such modern inventions, we'd had steam trains and phones since the 1800s, and even in an alternate universe like TLR, is it really so strange for them to have harnessed the power of the steam engine and invented ways of remote voice communication? It wasn't like I said they rode on the bullet train and used 3G mobile phones. =/ Huh, maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm stretching people's imagination a bit too far.

Ah well.

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[storme]

I'm used to floods of email for buying *anything* these days. Just like I'm used to floods of receipts in shops. :( In Boots the other day I got three receipts and two vouchers for buying one item.

(But! Amazon made the receipts in their parcels much much smaller. So that's nicer than it was.)

I though the trains and telephones in Siege/Surrender were actually a nice early signal that everything was slightly AU. *shrugs*

[t0k0.livejournal.com]

omg... ebay how I love yet hate thee. I never stop getting emails from them, and I don't even buy much from there anymore >.<

but but but, if it wasn't for the train They wouldn't have met! ;_;

lol Torgal on a 3G mobile.... XD