amazon

being back at work has its advantages.
sure i am stressed out from trying to work out exactly what it is i am doing, sure i am still pooped from adjusting from the world of sloth to the world of work.
but work brings its own pleasures and rewards: the people, the laughs, the stimulus, the challenges and a chance to once again order from amazon.

in my previous job i was quite free with my odering from amazon and play. the internet brought me closer to all the goods i wanted. add in a few specialist music and dvd sites and i was a happy man. i could sit at my computer and the books, dvds, cds, graphic novels etc would come to me. i was mickey as the sorceror's apprentice turning finger tippy taps on the keyboard into stuff. magic.

in my period of post-work i sensibly gave up internet shopping, it didn't matter what sort of email i would get from amazon et al telling me of their new greatest release i faced that temptation and resisted. who knew i had that strength of will?

now i don't have to!
yay work.
now i can go to amazon et al - look through their many many many pages of delight and choose something, anything to please me. oh yes. oh yes i can.
so first things first i need to reactivate my amazon account. should be easy. it wasn't. not to worry i overcame that obstacle - call me hercules and call this one of my labours (cleaning my flat is like the augean stables - the difference being even herc would leave it as a bad job).
new account sorted. what to choose. so much. so much. all this stuff that has come out and i have missed. what? what? what? shall i get this? shall i get that? this? that? maybe something else. oooh what to get? so much to choose from. can i have it all? (i wish.)
hard choices to be made.
thinking to be done.
cogitating.

decisions made. list written. time to order.
bugger that one isn't in stock. oh well move on to the next one. in stock. yay! next one. in stock. yes! next one. oh two weeks for delivery. can't wait that long. want it now. move on to the next one. in stock. get in there.
order made.
order placed.

amazon tell me when it is going to arrive. not long. wonderful.
next day amazon send me a confirmation order and they have changed the date. bastards. now they are telling me they won't be completing my order for a couple of days. call that a service? do they think it's christmas. all in all they have added five days to the delivery date.
sob. sob.

check the tracker on the site.
oh those sly old boys (and girls) at amazon - they have learnt a lot from the disney queuing system. they have under promised me (by telling me it would all arrive later) and they are going to over deliver (by getting it to me sooner). how can i tell that from the tracker site? because when i go to look they are already packing my goods - even though they have told me it won't leave for a couple of more days.
sneaky petes that they are.
of course if it is leaving them earlier than they said. it will get to me earlier than they promisd.
happy happy. joy joy.

tuesday morning.
eager anticipation. like christmas.
waiting. waiting. waiting.
where is the fucking postman.
where is the fucking delivery.
no delivery. no books. no clowns.
bad amazon.
naughty amazon.

so i look forward to wednesday morning for my delivery.
the disappointment of the day has passed. the excitement for the morning grows.
oooooh eager anticipation and all because pat loves books.