Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Whoops.

This morning when I called the police, they said they could take the report over the phone. This afternoon when I got back from some errands and called the police, I was on hold until the time I had to move my car from the far side of the street to the near side because of rush hour. This evening when I got back from doing the things I went out to do when I had to move the car, they said they were too shortstaffed today to take a report over the phone, so they were sending an officer to my house.

So I promised I would stay put until an officer showed up, checked my email, replaced the light bulb in the front hallway, and finally noticed that I never got next week's TV Guide in this week's mail. (It usually shows up on Tuesday. That was a holiday. It didn't show up after that.) And TV Guide's week starts on Saturday, so unless I get out to pick up a copy at a store or manage to find all the relevant info online, I'm just sort of hoping that everything's on the same schedule as last week when I set up my VCR.

Hmm. I just remembered that TV Guide does have a web site with the listings in one place with an amazingly inconvenient-to-me user interface (unless they've improved it in the last year and a half or so), so I don't have to figure out the URLs of each television station I get after all. Still annoying, but not as big a problem.

Hmm. If I write myself a sticky note reminding me to ask for my nails to be a sixteenth or an eighth of an inch longer than I really want them to be when I go to the nail salon, where do I stick the note where I'll see it at the apropriate times? My dashboard maybe? (For the folks who don't know me in real life: I've got acrylic on the three nails of my strumming hand that get the most wear from the guitar strings, and on occasion I've played right through the acrylic and exposed the natural nail in a single (busy) weekend. The six bucks every couple of weeks that this costs is an expense like guitar strings or batteries, a cost of playing in a large Celtic band with a lot of Scottish tunes in the repertoire. My natural nails pretty much grow fast enough to keep up with average wear for other kinds of music.)