<p>Oh, Aries, I'm so sorry!! (((((HUG)))))).</p>
<p>Aries, I am soo sorry to hear about your loss </p>
<p>{{{{{{{{{{{BIG HUGS to YOU }}}}}}}}}}}}}}</p>
<p><em>reaches across the miles</em> :::::hugs:hugs:hugs:::::: Bad things happening to wonderful young kids; just never can have enough hugs for that.</p>
<p>Thank you all. </p>
<p>Give your kids a hug, too - and, be happy that, admist all the college angst, they made it this far and will be irrationally estatic come September. </p>
<p>Ugh - long week. </p>
<p>Thanks again to y'all.</p>
<p>Aries - deep breath. Take care. Hope you don't mind if I give you a hug and then bring out the Silly String.</p>
<p>Katwkitten's boy is going to Princeton! Congrats to Kat and hers!!!!</p>
<p>Orange beer all around.</p>
<p>aries, (((((hugs))))) to you</p>
<p>and love to kat. I'll take an screwdriver though!</p>
<p>Thank you, SBMom.</p>
<p>Congrats to Kat!! :) Good news is always welcome - never been among those who thinks that misery loves company. I much prefer that everyone around me be happy - supportive, always! - but happy in their own lives.</p>
<p>::::slugghuggs:::::aries:::: ;) And, congrats to Kat and her Tiger kitten! </p>
<p>I'm in the middle of tracking down a bicycle that was shipped from Phoenix to Sacto, and then, for some inexplicable reason, Fed Ex shipped it to Toledo. Last year, I had to retrieve a box that Fed Ex delivered to an office building down the street. But, I didn't have time to run to TOLEDO this week to get my %@!! bike! </p>
<p>I know where the bike is. Fed Ex is "tracing" it. I asked them why they couldn't call one of the three Kinko/Fed Ex shipping stores in Toledo and have them pick up my bike and just ship it to me, since it was Fed Ex's fault that it got sent to Toledo, and this is what their Kinko places do. Nope, that would be too easy. The Fed Ex Claims lady who called me from Tennessee has to trace it, first. Grrrruff...I'm running out of vehicles! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Holy Toledo! May your bike in the sky resurface in short order!</p>
<p>Slugg,</p>
<p>Damn, I am glad that April is almost over because May has got to be better. So much for when it has to get there over night! But, overnight carrier did find your package faster than that other company found mooties.</p>
<p>I'll set the 2 of you up for the next round so you can share your tale of overnight shipping woe.</p>
<p>Just hope that someone in toledo doesn't decide to ride your bike to you.</p>
<p>Ooooh sybbie, go knock on something wooden, I hope you didn't jinx us! Never mind that old "maybe lost box" from last fall: We're waiting for FedEx to deliver <em>TODAY</em> the airline tickets that were "misplaced" or "misrouted" or something, so H can leave <em>TOMORROW</em> for a European business trip during which he is in contention for an "Inventor of the Decade" award, the ceremony for which he is NOT allowed to miss. (Says me.)</p>
<p>Go FedEx! Bicycle to slugg, airline tix to us... anyone else waiting on them today?</p>
<p>:confused: There must be a reason why a techno-advanced gang such as mootfamily is using paper ticket instead of e-ticket? But jmmom can't think of it.</p>
<p>PS I guess he's not one of the guys on American Inventor, huh? (Well, I know he's not 'cuz I've seen him and them). Inventor of the Decade is awesome! (Does it fit in a breadbox?)</p>
<p>Apparently has something to do with airline rules on late overseas flight purchases? H has been overseas on business for all but 3 of the last 35 days, and the office assistants "forgot" to get the e-tickets until Thursday. Or that's what I understand anyway. (I thought it was weird, too.)</p>
<p><em>IF</em> the "Inventor..." thing happens, I'll come back here to crow about it with a BIG FROSTY ONE, but no sense setting up more jinxes today. Suffice it to say he's one of 3 nominees in one of 6 categories, so he's taking the attitude that he already won at least Third Place! We have no idea if there will be a trophy or plaque involved or something else, but have decided not to speculate. We <em>DO</em> know there is free food involved. :) (And sadly, it was too much travel and too much expense for me to buzz over there to watch.)</p>
<p>That's cool, Mootmom! Goodluck to MootH!</p>
<p>Slugg, MootMom:
While you're waiting for Fed-Ex to deliver (sorry), you could practice singing this in chorus (sung to the tune of "Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What you gonna do...")</p>
<p>"FedEx, FedEx,
What we gonna do?
What we gonna do
While we waitin' on you?</p>
<pre><code>FedEx, FedEx,
There's this bike, you see
That you sent to Toledo
Instead of sendin' it to me.
FedEx, FedEx,
Air tickets, I say,
There really is a reason
To get 'em there next day.
FedEx, FedEx,"
...but you get the picture. Add your own verses from this point on.
Oh, and MootMom - since your husband will be hitting the airports soon, you may want to pass this on to him:
</code></pre>
<p>opt- Excellent!!!</p>
<p>Oh my opdad, I don't think I'll play that theme song for him, his blood pressure may go up, LOL! But I think you may have a second career as a lyricist ahead of you!!</p>
<p>NOW in good news, FedEx just handed over The Envelope! We're clear here: how 'bout you, sluggy? Bike show up yet?</p>
<p>I am so glad the ticket showed up at your door and we're still cool :)</p>
<p>But I did have a good laugh at the song. Now for the bike</p>
<p>so this is sinner's alley, eh? Where's the bar?</p>