Have you had recent orders canceled?

[teoman]

The delivery services (for local stuff like supermarket goods over here were bad for a week then yhey immediately causht up. We have a lot of scooter deliveries amd delivery people. Scooters whizzing around everywhere nowadays. (Biiiiiiiig city).

[Xist]

In Constantinople?

American Factory Warehouse said that my pantry was delayed until January 27th, so I asked them to cancel.

I felt fed up trying to get my hands on a bookcase with doors--wait.

Walmart has a 24" bookcase for $30!

Sure! I will just make cabinet doors myself, why not?

I looked on HomeDepot.com for cabinet doors and found this plain $90 cabinet, which apparently fits in a closet, and this $200 kitchen cabinet, which would be okay. It faces the kitchen, but is deeper than it is wide.

Great.

By the way, this is a $90 closet door, which should work, but there would need to be modifications. It is 8" taller than the bookcase.

Fun.

I wonder how my day would have gone had I figured out all of that this morning. I thought that I could make a bookcase with doors, but when I looked for plans I discovered slide-out pantries:

That looks perfect! I didn't look on-line at the time, but I figured that this would be excessively expensive, so I tried to find plans. I finally gave up and tried to figure out how to make my own and encountered this:

That will do!

The thing is, before I found it Mom said that it would really help if we replaced a small set of wire shelves with one of the large wire rack shelving units that I have in the garage, the laundry room, her bedroom, and my brother's room.

Who knows how long it would take me to follow those directions, but they are surprisingly short. I would much rather do that than purchase a particle board cabinet or bookcase, but I would be tempted to see how far $30 gets me.

I would feel concerned with putting cans on particle board shelves, but it is supposed to handle books.

I ordered something that I mentioned here over a week ago. I have not received an update and I just checked.

It is backordered.

The latest recliner that I ordered for my brother shipped. At least I have that going for me, which is nice. The thing is, before I ordered it I showed him a picture and asked if he wanted it.

"No."

Mom had me order it anyway.

[teoman]

Yes Constantinople, but it hasn’t been called that for about half a millennia. And you would not gain any popularity with the locals if you called it Constantinople.

[Xist]

Are you saying that I cannot get a date in Constantinople?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by teoman

Which leaf blower did you get?

I got one to push my kids toys to the corner of the room. Pick them up at one spot (easier on the back) and also vacuum (with ryobi handheld vacuum) the cats fur combined with the wife’s hair.


During the pandemic i bought myself some ryobi toys . (I dont have a garden but the leaf blower is good to blow dust from electronics and the car.)

I bought an open box RY40470VNM 40v Ryobi. It has a variable speed trigger and is fairly quiet. Some might complain about the weight. I like it a lot and will probably use it weekly for clearing the decks/porches and garage. Found it clears cobwebs and dust from the high ceilings too.

I’ve got a Robi 18v vacuum I like pretty well, but I don’t use it too often since we’ve got central vac.

[Fat Charlie]

You can, but she'll be waiting in Istanbul.

Don't ask why, it's nobody's business but the Turks'.

[redpoint5]

I had an Amazon delivery from one of those Amazon vans, then about 40 minutes later a Nissan car pulled up and I got a 2nd Amazon delivery from a guy wearing an Amazon vest. I asked if his van was in the shop, and he said he is doing Uber Eats, which I guess Amazon is utilizing for deliveries too, only giving them a vest to look official.

No idea why both packages couldn't have been delivered by the same person. Amazon has been taking longer to deliver packages, but I rarely want things immediately. I choose a single day of the week for deliveries, and they still come in multiple deliveries. One guy said he was supposed to deliver another package, and I told him not to worry about it and just deliver it whenever. He came later that night to deliver the package. They can't be making money on my $4 items by making special trips like that.

[Xist]

They need larger vehicles!

[JSH]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I had an Amazon delivery from one of those Amazon vans, then about 40 minutes later a Nissan car pulled up and I got a 2nd Amazon delivery from a guy wearing an Amazon vest. I asked if his van was in the shop, and he said he is doing Uber Eats, which I guess Amazon is utilizing for deliveries too, only giving them a vest to look official.

No idea why both packages couldn't have been delivered by the same person. Amazon has been taking longer to deliver packages, but I rarely want things immediately. I choose a single day of the week for deliveries, and they still come in multiple deliveries. One guy said he was supposed to deliver another package, and I told him not to worry about it and just deliver it whenever. He came later that night to deliver the package. They can't be making money on my $4 items by making special trips like that.

Amazon's gig economy app is called Amazon Flex. They give you a set price to deliver a set number of packages. You pick them up at the local depot and use an app to show addresses and scan them on delivery. I used to see them a lot - Amazon warehouse 4 miles away - but I see more Amazon vans today.

The second package likely came from a different warehouse than the first. If their naming convention holds they have at least 9 in PDX.

[redpoint5]

I'm in Silverton now, so I don't know the nearest warehouse. I remember a distribution center being built near the county jail; was that Amazon?

I see a constant stream of Amazon vans, like one every 10 seconds, passing a side road near Wilsonville. I imagine most of my stuff comes from that hub.