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9/10/13 Tuesday Fudge it. Went ahead and ordered prescription eyeglasses online , last night. My poorly made one is stressing me out, breaking me out. 5:30 p.m. Winnie called from the shop to tell me that I need to change my order from mid-index to high-index lenses. I expected it. I was switching between the mid- and high-indexes last night because my prescription is in the high negatives. They'll let me know how much more it's going to cost me tomorrow. 9/11/13 Wednesday Winnie called and it will be 3000 on top of what i already shelled out. Excellent. It will be for the super-duper thin lenses, jargon is high-index 1-point-something. I asked them to email me the details. No more goggle lenses? Can't wait. 9/12/13 Thursday No acknowledgement of payment and email reply re:details of the extra charge so I called them. Payment was received and my order papers already sent to the lab, but she'll get back to me when they get the papers back. 9/17/13 Tuesday Rec

8.22.13 Thursday. Pissed off Turned computer on, booted, logged in, few minutes in, hardly started - nothing running really - when it restarted by itself. It booted ok. I didn't log in but clicked "restart" instead so it can fix itself. It, again, booted ok; logged in, saw prompt re:"recovered from serious error" report - typical report when it restarts itself. Then a few, maybe two, minutes later, it froze. Manual restart -- error, can't boot, system32 config missing, repair with os disk, etc. Manual restart again -- nada, no post: fan on, cpu light on; but no beeps, no display. Repeated off/on attempts produced same results: fan runs, no beeps, no display. No joy. (The man told me later that I shouldn't have kept turning it off/on. I'll keep that in mind next time.) Reminds me of last year but without cmos error: October 2012 cmos battery change and hardware cleaning when we discovered the mobo's bubbled capacitors. Recommendation back then

Two days of non-stop rain and we have floodwater in our street -- the water was high enough to get in part of our garage this morning but it went down before noon. Other places are sadly, badly affected: impassable roads, flooded homes, motorists needing rescue, households moving to emergency shelters. It's still raining right now but very lightly. They're calling this storm, Maring. It's dark, rainy and gloomy.

oh, was so happy because my package from amazon.com arrived. compared to my past experiences with their expedited international shipping, in 2009 and 2010 , this latest purchase and philippines delivery was -- wow! timeline/details: * july 30, tuesday - ordered one cd-rom (game) sold by another seller but "fulfilled by amazon" with expedited international shipping. * august 6, tuesday - package delivered by dhl. hurrah! that's only five business days . excellent. the total expedited international delivery cost increased to include a separate "import fees deposit" of $4.18 -- this showed up during checkout. it was most probably added when they switched to dhl (i remember my previous packages went through a local receiving company). and this time, tracking was available: i knew when it left the states and when it arrived in manila; i knew that it was out for delivery as early as monday morning on august 5 but it was raining badly then so i assumed th

this morning, a cat was meowing and scratching at my window - from the inside! obviously, it managed to squeeze in through the metal frame and close the glass panes behind it so it was stuck between the glass and screen. it was big and orange. i thought it would at least be panicking that it was trapped but no, when it heard me, it looked at me, purred and sat down like it was satisfied! so, we opened the glass panes and it squeezed out the same way it came in. with the excitement of the day over and told, here's food --

hello, package -- timeline for this order Friday, madaling araw - checked out and received email confirmation Saturday, hapon - delivered via xend i think this has been my quickest, completed zalora online order to date. nice. so, they're shipping orders in my area through xend again. they're charging 200 pesos for deliveries outside MM now (still free for purchases 1000 and above). zalora cart combo i was supposed to shop two weeks ago but i couldn't get past the order summary/payment page. that has happened before and when i asked zalora philippines about it, they said one of the possible reasons was that an item in my cart was not available even if their site stated otherwise. so, two weeks ago, i was taking out and putting items in my cart to get a combination that would go through payment but no joy so i stopped trying. i went back friday - the stuff i needed were still "available" - happily, the order went through OK in one go.

last tuesday's silog -- the puppy's growing fast. she's eating a lot. she can stand, lean on and put her chin on the bed already. still no garbage collection so this is still here . when the local robinsons supermarket stopped selling the kdo sugar-free coffee mix, we started buying the only sugar-free mix that they had -- great taste white. first, there was a box of 10 sachets. then, the box was gone replaced with a plastic pack of 10 sachets. now, they don't stock it in packs - they're selling individual sachets instead! parang sa sari-sari store lang .

it was raining when i woke up. pulled the blanket over me and went back to sleep. it was what we would call stay-in-bed weather. two hours later i was up and hungry. had fluffy scrambled eggs, two pieces of tuyo , rice, coffee and a bottle of water. read on the kindle for a long while to let that big meal settle before i took a nap. i couldn't help it, i had to lie down again, the weather made me sleepy. i don't know how long i was out but next thing i knew, it was time to get up. so, i was up and about. had a bath, another meal - vegetables, grilled tilapia, rice, water, and homemade biko for dessert. there was an incident outside with the puppy and a big cat - the cat attacked her! she rushed in whining and hobbling with one leg obviously hurt. she didn't appear to have a break or wound so we calmed her down with soft words and cuddles. she hobbled back out but wasn't crying anymore so that's good. we'll check her leg again tomorrow.

played with a puppy after brunch. made a toy for her from an old canvass tote. we rolled and tied it up so she'll have something to chew on. she likes to grab things with her teeth and pull. the rainy season has eased up the harsh temps from the past months, though flood and heavy traffic have become problems in many business districts. i was planning on going out soon to a government office. in my case, planning an outing is stressful already, now i have to keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't rain on the intended day. happy to report that the ant problem is going away. a few ants make an appearance from time to time, but the bed has not been swarmed for two days straight. i am getting rid of old accounting textbooks. they have been unopened for more or less a decade so they will have to go. it's one pile (there's more but this is a start) but the bin outside is too small so we're waiting for the garbage truck to come by on collection day so we can just ha