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11-10-2010, 05:41 AM | #2621 |
Smells Lemony
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Gads... I leave for a few days and miscreants try to move in. Well, time to roll up the sleeves and clean house.
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11-10-2010, 05:52 AM | #2622 |
Smells Lemony
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Oh, and eBay reviewed my case for my overdue and broken rolling thunder. Full refund! Score!
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11-10-2010, 07:53 AM | #2623 |
Bovine Excrement Viper
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Cool. I tried several times to get un-ripped off on eBay (beat up "MIP" stuff, loose transformers, unplayable, scratched-to-hell video games) and I always got told that it wasn't their problem. Of course, things have changed since 2001... like me ever buying anything there.
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11-10-2010, 08:53 AM | #2624 |
487121987219863.2
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or me ever selling anything there again.... 25% loss to ebay and paypall feels? what the hell is that? Good news Hicks, you gotta send the thunder back? Or is it keepsies?
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11-12-2010, 04:51 AM | #2625 |
Smells Lemony
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As the user is no longer a registered user, I'm not too concerned about sending the Rolling Thunder back to him/her/it. Plus the boxes return address was damaged beyond my being able to read it.
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11-12-2010, 07:50 AM | #2626 |
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If only the schmuck woulda used a popsicle stick crate for shipping...
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11-12-2010, 08:15 AM | #2627 |
487121987219863.2
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Victory indeed.
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11-12-2010, 09:19 AM | #2628 |
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Ok, gonna post a book here because I feel like it. This is part venting, part thought organization. I'm just going to detail my itinerary for the next few days. It is now 8am-ish. I got up for work at about 7pm, and I got home from work at 5:30-ish. Today, I get to go get stuff out of my storage unit. While I'm out, I need to pick up a few little things I keep forgetting about, like a clip fan and a belt pack. When I get back, I have to go through it all and catalog everything that's coming with me Sunday. Then I get to re-pack everything that's staying and find a temporary home for it. I have to design and print out signage and stuff for the table. (Yeah, I coulda done this earlier, but I'm a master procrastinator.) I'm going to try and stay up most of the day and go to bed in the early evening in a likely fruitless effort to switch my body clock around (thankfully I was able to take a vacation day from work). My girlfriend may stop by after class though, which should make the day suck a little bit less.
Tomorrow, I get to call in a few favors and get some friends over to help me with my attic. It's just a wee crawl space, but it's a wee crawl space crammed with plastic tubs filled with toys. I get to crawl up there and deconstruct the 3D Tetris field, passing the pieces down to my unfortunately height-challenged friends. One of those pieces is a Joe HQ with Hicks's name on it. Once it's all down, we get to sift through it all, figure out what's going and what's staying, and catalog what's going. What's staying gets re-packed and lugged back into the attic. What's going gets re-packed as compactly as possible for transport. I'm guessing this'll take about 6 hours or so total. At some point late in the morning I need to go pick up the rental van. After all the lugging and sorting, I have to print out the catalogs (hopefully not more than a sheet or two of paper for each type) and get together all the materials and stuff I need for Sunday. Then I need to run out and snag some bottled water and hoagies and stuff. On Sunday I have to be up by 3am or so, shit/shower/shave, load the van, and meet my friend at the hotel by 5am. Then I get to figure out how to arrange all of my stuff on (and under) a 6x3 banquet table and a few cheap shelves I picked up. Then starting at 8 I get to watch total strangers pick over my toy collection and have mixed feelings every time something is or isn't sold. That'll go on for the next 9 hours, at the end of which I'll hopefully have sold enough to make everything worth it. At 5pm we start packing up (which should be much quicker than setting up), then home, unload, and pass the hell out. Monday I need to take the van back, figure out what's left and where its home should be, and put it wherever it ends up going. Go to the bank, deposit the money, then vegetate until it's time for the game. So yeah... busy weekend. Last edited by Hellion42; 11-12-2010 at 09:26 AM.. |
11-13-2010, 05:30 AM | #2629 |
Bovine Excrement Viper
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Can I kill a thread or what?
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11-14-2010, 01:37 PM | #2630 |
Smells Lemony
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I know, popsicle sticks are a superior material for crating. I picked up two more boxes just the other day.
Hey did I see my name in that long winded recounting of the weekend's event? Okay, so I tried to steal Hellion's signatre to use as my desktop background... Now, my old computer would play .gif images in the background. Is there something I'm doing wrong with this mew version of windows or has that feature been removed in the last... decade plus of software? Cause all I'm getting is a pair of pasty white hands over a touchscreen. |
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