I got one of those salmon-colored slips in my mailbox telling me I had a package waiting at the P.O. When I got down there to pick it up, the above is what they handed me. (I knew it was a Folio Books shipment).
I immediately said, "Oh, no, I hope this doesn't mean the box broke in transit" (because Folio Press and I kind of have a history of that.)
The Post Office lady assured me that no, this is "policy" for packages out of the UK (Apparently it's a Customs thing. The Customs slip was marked "Gift" even though I am paying for a couple books in there....I guess arguably the majority of the "cost" was "Gift" because it was my several-free-books-for-re-upping deal).
Here is is, off the box. It's pretty big - almost 3 feet by 2 feet. I'd be tempted to make SOMETHING out of it because frankly, I think it's kind of cool. (One way in which I am a geek? I am an Anglophile geek.) However:
1. It's made out of that weird woven-tiny-strips-of-plastic stuff that would probably gum up the sewing machine (and melt under the iron)
2. The thought of how many trains, planes, and trucks (lorries?) it probably booted around in the back of makes the germophobe in me twitch a little.
Still, I haven't thrown it away (Maybe I can use it to store my garden tools in for the winter, in the garage) because it is, frankly, one of the more weird-cool things that's come in the mail.
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I'm going to make a concerted effort to only post once a day in the future. (We'll see how long this lasts). Someone (someone not in my "friends") was asking on Ravelry, "Can I turn off the links to certain of my friends' blogs without de-friending them? One person I've friended posts too many times a day and that effectively spams my friends blogs page."
This is where I have a hard time judging situations...I don't know if someone griping about that is totally off base or if it's a total annoyance to have lots of blog posts show up on a page or a feed reader. So whatever, I'm going to try to keep from (potentially) annoying people.
But I'm feeling shaky enough other wise (it's a bad, bad pollen season here) that the thought I might be upsetting someone with spammity spam spam posts bothers me and makes me unhappy.
4 comments:
Your posts are not spammity spam! I was home today, and it was really nice to pop open bloglines and see you there. On school days, it's great seeing your posts when I get home from school and then another or so as I work in the afternoon.
I think she's off base.
I don't think your posts are spam at all! I enjoy reading them. If the person on Ravelry was referring to you, she wasn't being very nice. If she is a "friend" and feels that way about you, she should take it up directly with you, not post it somewhere. If your many posts bother her, she can unsubscribe to whatever service she thinks is being clogged up with them. It's definitely HER problem, not yours.
I am in firm agreement with both Lydia and Charlotte. I enjoy your posts, and I don't find their frequency of appearance in the Ravelry friend blog box annoying in the slightest. If anything, it's a pleasure to see a new post, and then a tiny bit of guilt that I post so rarely myself.
ok, I agree about the posts, but what prompts my comment is the cool royal air bag. C'mon, how can one not be geeky about that? I recall seeing similar woven bags on some garden show (holding dirt or seeds/birdfood??) and they talked about re-using them. I am sure there are different types, but I recall them talking about some becoming brittle if exposed to the elements too long. And not exactly the same, but i saw Martha Stewart sew those non-tear mailing envelopes into "trendy bags". (My daughter and i were car-less for almost 2 months this summer - hgtv and i became close pals ;) )
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