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shadowkatAuntie N told me via mother, to write down the things that I felt anxious about and then rip them up. Or write down negative things and positive things, and rip up the negative ones. It's apparently how she's been coping with all her health issues and anxieties of late. (Auntie N has breast cancer, and cyrossis of the liver, which had to be fixed.)
Mother: So write it down.
Me: Kind of already doing that...and making fun of it.
Mother: that works too, but it's better to tear it up afterwards...
I'd been stressing over whether or not I'm moving my office from Queens to Manhattan.
Me: Hear anything?
Breaking Bad: Nope.
Me: Guessing no news is good news?
Breaking Bad: Yes, that's the universe we live in now. Down is Up. No News is Good News...
I need to stop talking to the folks in the cubicles around me about it. It stresses them out - mainly their fear that they will be moved instead.
Which is possible.
Also been stressing over receiving Xmas gifts being delivered by Amazon to an Amazon Locker in my building. These are gifts sent to me by my family members. I have a small immediate family of four people that I'm close to - but who live a long ways from me. One lives in Montana. Two in Upstate New York near the Massachustus border, and one in South Carolina on an island.
We're not very good at living close to each other - very nomadic and free-spirited, my family.
Amazon has installed "lockers" in my apartment building. They are allegedly safe, secure, and reliable. But also a royal pain. The last time I sent something to myself via Amazon Locker, it ended up being delayed because there was no room in the locker, and never made it to me. I had to re-order it. So I'm understandably concerned. I'm told that's not a problem. If it's not picked up by the recipient within two days, it gets sent back to Amazon.
Except, what's not clear is according to Amazon, the property manager is supposed to clear out the lockers for apartments, while Amazon just does it for non-apartment lockers. Yet, my Super states only Amazon has access to these lockers and they clear them out. That a tenant told her they pick them up after two days. I'm hoping this is true.
Super said you can't have anyone else use the lockers. Which is confusing. I contacted Amazon. I asked the question bot first. "How do I pick up a gift sent to a locker from a friend?" Amazon: Use the security code or email confirmation that we send you and in your app - click and it will open the locker. Me: What if I didn't order it and it was sent to me from a friend? Amazon: What order did you get? Me: I don't have an order - I want to know how to pick up a gift from a locker - sent to me by someone else. Amazon: Please choose an item below. (None apply). Amazon: Ask Rufus.
So I ask Rufus, the AI bot, long story short? I get nowhere. Except: I can't answer that question.
So I have Amazon get a customer rep.
Me: My mother is sending me a Xmas gift from Amazon on Friday. It is being delivered to the Amazon locker in my building. How do I access it?
G: What's your order number?
Me: I don't have an order number - I didn't order it. My mother is sending me the gift to the locker. Am I talking to a real person?
G: Yes, I am a real person. Transferring you to our locker personnel.
Amilyah shows up.
Me: My mother is sending me a Christmas gift via Amazon. It will be delivered on Friday to my Amazon Locker. How do I pick it up?
Amilyah: Can I have your order number?
Me: I didn't order it. I wouldn't have one. I am receiving a gift from a family member. The gift is being delivered by. Amazon to a locker in my building. I need to know how to pick it up.
Amilyah: Is it locker with a screen for a code or a bluetooth?
Me: Bluetooth - I had to hold my phone up to it, last time.
Amilyah: "If you want to pick up your package, simply ask your mother and brother to forward the delivery confirmation email with the Start Pickup button to you. Then you can go to the locker and click on the start pickup button.You will be able to pick up your package.You will need a smartphone with Bluetooth connection and the latest version of the Amazon Shopping App."
I miss the days in which all I had to worry about were package thieves. Or wrapping presents and figuring out how to cart them back to my apartment via plane.
My mother's is allegedly arriving on Friday - so we shall see what happens. My brother's is allegedly arriving by Sunday.
***
I really wish I owned a crystal ball sometimes. I want spoilers. But they aren't forthcoming. On the other hand, maybe I'm better off without the spoilers?
**
Update on the power outage that took out several train lines last night, resulting in Wales being stranded for hours and having to hail a cab home.
Explosion at electrical substation caused subway meltdown for thousands, MTA says.
["An explosion that blew a door off its hinges in an electric room that powers several New York City subway lines caused Wednesday night’s service meltdown for thousands of riders, highlighting the transit system’s aging infrastructure and modernization needs, according to MTA officials.
Riders were still experiencing a variety of lengthy delays across the subway during rush hour on Thursday morning, after a hellish commute during the Wednesday evening rush due to the power loss. That disruption left some 3,500 riders stuck in tunnels for hours, officials said.
“We had a 90-year-old electrical substation that had a fire and an explosion of some kind because the door was off the hinges,” MTA Chair Janno Lieber said at a news conference on Thursday morning. “That speaks to the urgency of making the investments to the very old pieces of our system.”
Lieber said the transit agency had already put the substation on a shortlist for necessary upgrades."]
According to another report..
People were peeing in between the cars. People were passing out cookies. It became a little community thing." [They were also sharing water.]
And this link.. Power Outage Leaves 3500 NYC Subway Riders Stranded
"The trapped riders were eventually led off the stalled trains by firefighters into dark subway tunnels and up service stairways that led to trap doors in the middle of Brooklyn sidewalks, according to photos of the debacle shared on social media.
“Trapped in an unpowered rush hour F train with no a/c for the last 70 minutes til FDNY got us out through a damn maintenance tunnel at Smith and Atlantic,” one of the evacuated riders tweeted alongside a photo of people walking up a steep, graffiti-covered stairway.
[So, needless to say, Transit was not having a good day. At all.]
Governor Kathy Hocheul is asking for a full review from both the MTA and Con Edison to ensure it never happens again
Mother: So write it down.
Me: Kind of already doing that...and making fun of it.
Mother: that works too, but it's better to tear it up afterwards...
I'd been stressing over whether or not I'm moving my office from Queens to Manhattan.
Me: Hear anything?
Breaking Bad: Nope.
Me: Guessing no news is good news?
Breaking Bad: Yes, that's the universe we live in now. Down is Up. No News is Good News...
I need to stop talking to the folks in the cubicles around me about it. It stresses them out - mainly their fear that they will be moved instead.
Which is possible.
Also been stressing over receiving Xmas gifts being delivered by Amazon to an Amazon Locker in my building. These are gifts sent to me by my family members. I have a small immediate family of four people that I'm close to - but who live a long ways from me. One lives in Montana. Two in Upstate New York near the Massachustus border, and one in South Carolina on an island.
We're not very good at living close to each other - very nomadic and free-spirited, my family.
Amazon has installed "lockers" in my apartment building. They are allegedly safe, secure, and reliable. But also a royal pain. The last time I sent something to myself via Amazon Locker, it ended up being delayed because there was no room in the locker, and never made it to me. I had to re-order it. So I'm understandably concerned. I'm told that's not a problem. If it's not picked up by the recipient within two days, it gets sent back to Amazon.
Except, what's not clear is according to Amazon, the property manager is supposed to clear out the lockers for apartments, while Amazon just does it for non-apartment lockers. Yet, my Super states only Amazon has access to these lockers and they clear them out. That a tenant told her they pick them up after two days. I'm hoping this is true.
Super said you can't have anyone else use the lockers. Which is confusing. I contacted Amazon. I asked the question bot first. "How do I pick up a gift sent to a locker from a friend?" Amazon: Use the security code or email confirmation that we send you and in your app - click and it will open the locker. Me: What if I didn't order it and it was sent to me from a friend? Amazon: What order did you get? Me: I don't have an order - I want to know how to pick up a gift from a locker - sent to me by someone else. Amazon: Please choose an item below. (None apply). Amazon: Ask Rufus.
So I ask Rufus, the AI bot, long story short? I get nowhere. Except: I can't answer that question.
So I have Amazon get a customer rep.
Me: My mother is sending me a Xmas gift from Amazon on Friday. It is being delivered to the Amazon locker in my building. How do I access it?
G: What's your order number?
Me: I don't have an order number - I didn't order it. My mother is sending me the gift to the locker. Am I talking to a real person?
G: Yes, I am a real person. Transferring you to our locker personnel.
Amilyah shows up.
Me: My mother is sending me a Christmas gift via Amazon. It will be delivered on Friday to my Amazon Locker. How do I pick it up?
Amilyah: Can I have your order number?
Me: I didn't order it. I wouldn't have one. I am receiving a gift from a family member. The gift is being delivered by. Amazon to a locker in my building. I need to know how to pick it up.
Amilyah: Is it locker with a screen for a code or a bluetooth?
Me: Bluetooth - I had to hold my phone up to it, last time.
Amilyah: "If you want to pick up your package, simply ask your mother and brother to forward the delivery confirmation email with the Start Pickup button to you. Then you can go to the locker and click on the start pickup button.You will be able to pick up your package.You will need a smartphone with Bluetooth connection and the latest version of the Amazon Shopping App."
I miss the days in which all I had to worry about were package thieves. Or wrapping presents and figuring out how to cart them back to my apartment via plane.
My mother's is allegedly arriving on Friday - so we shall see what happens. My brother's is allegedly arriving by Sunday.
***
I really wish I owned a crystal ball sometimes. I want spoilers. But they aren't forthcoming. On the other hand, maybe I'm better off without the spoilers?
**
Update on the power outage that took out several train lines last night, resulting in Wales being stranded for hours and having to hail a cab home.
Explosion at electrical substation caused subway meltdown for thousands, MTA says.
["An explosion that blew a door off its hinges in an electric room that powers several New York City subway lines caused Wednesday night’s service meltdown for thousands of riders, highlighting the transit system’s aging infrastructure and modernization needs, according to MTA officials.
Riders were still experiencing a variety of lengthy delays across the subway during rush hour on Thursday morning, after a hellish commute during the Wednesday evening rush due to the power loss. That disruption left some 3,500 riders stuck in tunnels for hours, officials said.
“We had a 90-year-old electrical substation that had a fire and an explosion of some kind because the door was off the hinges,” MTA Chair Janno Lieber said at a news conference on Thursday morning. “That speaks to the urgency of making the investments to the very old pieces of our system.”
Lieber said the transit agency had already put the substation on a shortlist for necessary upgrades."]
According to another report..
People were peeing in between the cars. People were passing out cookies. It became a little community thing." [They were also sharing water.]
And this link.. Power Outage Leaves 3500 NYC Subway Riders Stranded
"The trapped riders were eventually led off the stalled trains by firefighters into dark subway tunnels and up service stairways that led to trap doors in the middle of Brooklyn sidewalks, according to photos of the debacle shared on social media.
“Trapped in an unpowered rush hour F train with no a/c for the last 70 minutes til FDNY got us out through a damn maintenance tunnel at Smith and Atlantic,” one of the evacuated riders tweeted alongside a photo of people walking up a steep, graffiti-covered stairway.
[So, needless to say, Transit was not having a good day. At all.]
Governor Kathy Hocheul is asking for a full review from both the MTA and Con Edison to ensure it never happens again