The fact my remaining package for now is running late. Was shipping to the same address I have...across the county in a different town!

This is not a first time thing.

The way the post office is, they can't read zip codes or town names.

Several ups and downs at work (the ups were fine, but the downs were really annoying), both yesterday and today. Then grocery run with mom (bit of a pain in the behind after the day I had). Then home to two hours of gardening work. 8 hours or so between lunch and dinner, head has already had multiple brain farts between the last few hours at work and now and is overtired, plus my feet hurt.

Two things: first is that fewer and fewer people are writing post codes correctly (e.g. putting the spaces in the wrong place) so there's inconsistencies now and I get the joy of fixing them before the system has a meltdown. Secondly, the place I went to for brunch was really sad considering the price. Like when we booked we specifically said 1 person is vegan and the rest aren't so why are we getting everything fully vegan? Don't even get me started on meat replacements and fake cheese. Either give me the real stuff or provide a nice menu with vegetables and legumes. It's not hard. And then just generally poor service like giving us the wrong drinks, dropping the soup etc.

Yesterday, my boyfriend and I were on our last day in Berlin. We went to see Käärijä perform - it was the opening night to his European tour.

The gig was on Sunday, and we were leaving the country on Tuesday. We knew Tuesday was going to be a long, difficult and PITA day because we still had lots of stuff to see, but our transportation ticket expired so we didn't have as much access to public transportation without paying extra for the additional tickets - we had to walk a lot. And I have been walking a lot already these days - the tours, sightseeing, museums...

I had a bad night's sleep and I was hella groggy. We had to check out by 10 and our flight was scheduled for 8 o'clock in the evening. My boyfriend kept walking faster than me the entire day and that irritated both him and me. We arrived at the airport where I had I think my second chance to sit down that day. The Starbucks only served grande and venti (medium and large), and was of course more expensive than a Starbucks outside the airport.

I went to the bathroom, and by the time I was back, my half-full cup was gone. I left my boyfriend to mind our luggage, and he was sitting next to me, but there were two separate coffee tables. I guess he didn't even notice that the waiter came by and picked the cup up (despite there being luggage all around the coffee table...). Oh well, half of €7 down the drain I guess.

Oh, I forgot - the airline kept pushing back the departure. The flight was over an hour and a half late.

Anyway, the time has come - only one hour until our flight! We went across the airport to our gate.

And then... 10 minutes before the rescheduled departure, the flight disappears from all screens everywhere. "The flight has been canceled. Pick up your luggage and report to the AAS kiosk next to the Starbucks."

All of a sudden, I'm not only tired anymore - I am furious.

We storm to the Starbucks, but there's no AAS anywhere. We talk to the barista who's closing up, "oh, there's another Starbucks, outside of clearance."

A hole begins forming on my over-shoulder bag because it's overstuffed. I hope the bag won't fall apart by the time we get back to Croatia.

We finally found the fucking Starbucks and the AAS, airline assistance. "Sorry, but Croatia Airlines customer support works only until 8, and it's past 9 now. They have two additional numbers listed, but the first one is busy and the second number does not exist when we dial it."

The AAS didn't know anything! When the next flight would be, whether we should find accommodation on our own or from the airline - nothing.

We booked some random room somewhere near downtown Berlin. Of course, we slept through the night because the airline customer service is not there until 8 in the morning.

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Today's the next day, they told us to keep our receipts for food and accommodation. They scheduled us on a flight to Frankfurt first, with a connection to Croatia. We should be back in our country by 10 in the evening.

I guess I'll never book a flight with bloody Croatia Airlines ever again, unless I plan coming back from a vacation, like, one week before work or something. I missed a day's work now, and I've barely managed to get these two days off for the gig.

I've flown Ryanair and I've NEVER had this much shit and to be left stranded with no info at all. An international airport that closes all services at 9, but serves flights that take off way later than that??? So if a plane crash landed into the ocean, we gotta wait for the representative to wake up, make coffee, sit down and pick up?

The CA representative, once we were finally on a call, confirmed that we'll be reimbursed. She asked, "I hope that the airport at least gave you a place for stay." No they didn't, but the representative was very kind probably because we didn't yell at her (we had just woken up) and expressed concern and kindness.

Currently, we're chilling at a cat cafe. In short, a day wasted because half of it will have to be spent at the airport because the flight was canceled two hours past its scheduled departure.

The weather was nice-to-ok (a warm sunny day with a small rain that happened around 1 in the morning, way past we would've returned back home if it hadn't got canceled).

I ended up disassembling and erasing my homemade video player from phone parts and I have to send it back to Amazon.

My 37th birthday is coming up and I am having my annual sushi feast with a tiramisu cake.

One thing I dread is that video player machine was a step forward, but it quickly went back when I found out how bad the condition of the parts were found to be poorly refurbished

I know it doesn't mar my ability to build, but I started building something.

Also got an email from Amazon saying my package of soda exploded. Not surprised. This is the second time it happened to me. I was ordering Cherry 7UP. Hard to find canned.

Internet problems, again!

Having trouble connecting to things I need, if I am to continue updating my story projects. Although I can get online, connect with MTS, Syms Asylum, Nraas, TSR and other sites I use a lot, nothing else seems to be working. And, crucially, I cannot connect with imgur, which I need in order to upload and access the images I will be using. I'm completely stymied, I can't even connect with Microsoft and get help from there, or with Tech Support Guy which has helped me before.

That means a journey into town to visit the Three Store, and I'm not very hopeful they will be of any help either. They'll just suggest a lot of things I've already tried.

I received my instant noodles, but the beef ones were in non microwavable cups. It was false advertising to sell old stock in the microwavable cup lot!

Panic over. It seems to have fixed itself!

I don't know what was wrong, or what fixed it. All I did was plug my router into my old Windows 7 machine, entered my security code and was back online. Everything worked just fine. So I concluded that the problem must be with my Windows 10 machine - a nasty little virus perhaps - but when I plugged the router back into it I found that everything is now working fine. I can connect with everything I had bookmarked, and browse as normal.

Well, that's a relief. I wasn't looking forward to another, probably fruitless, visit to the Three store.

^ A lot of computer (and technical) issues can be fixed by turning it off and back on again (or unplugging and plugging it back in, or resetting/restarting - whichever fits), so I'm not too surprised. If my computer is having some weird issue, it's the go-to fix when I can't find a solution, and most of the time it fixes itself (I've had a lot of weird ones with Windows 10).

Must be the season for computer issues although I don't think mine will be solved by turning it off and on.

My sims rig has decided to start shutting down with a error that the CPU is overheating and to make sure that it is seated properly.

This system has 6 fans. 3 on the front, 2 on the top and one in the back. I clean this system out regularly to keep the dust from building up on the fans themselves and the mesh or screen that is in front of the fans on the front and top. The fan in the back doesn't have a screen or mesh piece in front of it.

I downloaded a app called Core Temp to see wtf was going on at least temp wise. It isn't hot in the house. I've been having to turn the heat on at night and it's been in the 60s during the day. As far as I can tell, everything is seated properly, so I removed the glass part of the case and have a fan blowing on everything. I've read that people shouldn't boot a PC that throws this error, whatever. I also read that that fans start sounding like a airplane when this happens, but my fans are radio silent. They don't make any noise before the system shuts down. There is also a liquid cooling system. I'm wondering if that is the issue since the fans are not the problem. Every time it shuts down, I instantly think the power went out.

It needs to be looked at which is going to wait as it has been a expensive week. The fence done and paid for, I paid property taxes early. In between those there was a vet visit; Chica has a yeast infection in her left ear. Today Jingle goes to the vet for her yearly physical. Before I pack it up and take it somewhere, I'll have The Boy look at it as he went to school for this stuff.

If the whole thing craps out on me, I backed everything up yesterday to a external drive between shut downs. That was before I got had the idea of removing the glass and using another fan. I'm not playing sims or watching YT on said system as doing either of those will cause more problems heat-wise. Just sitting here typing it is now between 100-105 Fahrenheit with a fan and room temp being 73.

Wheeeee... computers are so much fun.

^ Maybe the CPU needs repasting (if you haven't tried that already)?