Follies

www.abyss.com........
I tried this morning to order a DVD from shop.cycleworld.com: “The World’s Fastest Indian.”
I have two browsers: IE and Netscape 7.0. I usually try IE first, as occasionally Netscape locks up, plus IE has “autofill.”
The other night I tried to order two T-shirts online from www.whitehorsepress.com, and made it as far as confirming my order. Then we went into www.abyss.com.
The next morning I tried ordering online with Netscape, and completed the order.
But then I was worried about a double-order, so ended up calling their 800-number.
Sure enough, my Netscape order had to be deleted. My IE order had completed too, despite www.abyss.com.
“The World’s Fastest Indian” went to www.abyss.com too. I got as far as “processing order,” which was www.abyss.com.
No Netscape this time; I ain’t double-ordering. I guess I hafta call their 800-number — which of course is Schwarzenegger-time. Ain’t technology wonderful!? Every online-order goes to www.abyss.com. I might as well hit their 800-numbers first — I end up calling them anyway (“punch one for customer-service — punch two to bellyache; all our representatives are busy at the moment — your call will be answered in the order it was received. Please hold during the silence: ‘boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom-chicka......’”

More www.abyss.com........
I cranked a number of links into the “Food-Fight” story. Who knows if they work? The MarketPlace link is to a Yahoo map site — I guess the Honeoye Falls MarketPlace doesn’t have a site.
The Yahoo MarketPlace link had other links on it, but all went to www.abyss.com.
A second link was Florida’s Natural, but that went to a black site with a big white window. Cranked into Netscape (the browser I use with MyFamblee), it showed the same black window, and wanted me to download a FlashPlayer.
Pass! I already have enough FlashPlayers, and I ain’t that desperate.
So I don’t get the Florida’s Natural site — so what!

We went to the so-called elitist country-club this morning, without the dogs, to attempt cross-country skiing.
Not taking the dogs is very depressing — they would love it — but trying to hold back a leashed dog on cross-country skis would be impossible.
But cross-country skiing is nearly impossible too — we had to give up.
The bindings on my skis are almost impossible in the cold. Indoors they work easy-as-pie, but in the snow they’re impossible.
We got them attached in the parking-lot, and advanced the 50 yards to the Porta-John, but then they had to be removed to use the Porta-John. Getting them back on after the Porta-John was beyond-the-pale.
I’ve done it before (two years ago), but they’ve always been a challenge.
I guess we have to go back and get bindings that work in the snow. The ones I have make it impossible to ski.