Random Thoughts

I really dislike the Mill Creek post office. They refuse to deliver packages to my apartment complex. Every time I receive a package, they put a notice in my mailbox that the package is waiting at the post office for pick up. Well, Saturday is the only day I can get to the post office so if I get a package on Monday, it's five days before I can get the package. And if I'm busy that Saturday or sleep in too long, then it's 12 days! Yeah, that's the kind of service I love! When I moved into the apartment, they told me that the post office wouldn't leave packages but they didn't know why. After making a special trip to the post office two packages ago I asked why they didn't deliver packages to my complex. She said that the apartment has lost too many packages and blamed it on the post office not delivering them. She said that the apartment manager wanted the post office to sign in every package they deliver and that they delivered too many to do that. I even contacted the USPS through their website to complain about the situation. They said that my apartments won't accept packages from the post office but I can call and have the package forwarded to work. sigh... UPS is the only service I can trust to deliver to my apartment as FedEx seems to turn packages over to the post office for the last leg of delivery. 


I am so glad that I lived in Pittsburgh for a year, even if I was only a baby when that happened. Someone today saw my Pittsburgh stuff on my Jeep and asked if I was from there. "Uh, yeah!" (I was 18 months old when we moved away.) But I could at least say I lived in Carnegie (true). She was from Moon Township, which I've heard of but don't really know what area that is. Usually I 'fess up pretty quick that I grew up in eastern PA, but that I got my taste in sports from my Dad who grew up in Beaver Falls. Today I didn't have to as we were both getting in our cars at that point. 


I finished reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo this week. It took me a little bit to get into it because too much of it was taking place in the business world - I already studied that stuff too much in grad school, it's not something I would choose to read about in my spare time. But once the murder mystery really took hold then it was good reading. I would rather have not read the sex stuff but I guess if I'm going to read a "grown up" book instead of young adult books that's a consequence I'll have to deal with. I'll read the other two books in the trilogy, but first I want to re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows before I see Part 2.


That's all for now I suppose...