I’m starting to write at 10:03 and I’m not sleepy. Today I finish blogging early or die in the attempt. Right after writing that I yawned.
On Wednesday I went to the Met game with Alan. For reasons I’ll get to later I was late. I didn’t arrive till the second inning. I hate that. It didn’t help that the 7 train wasn’t running express and that I didn’t find that out until after I didn’t get on the first local train. Signs up saying that there were no express trains would have been nice. They were doing construction.
The Mets were playing the Phillies. It was a matchup of the two best pitchers in baseball, Jacob deGrom and whoever is facing deGrom. Jacob leads the major leagues with a 1.68 ERA, but his record is only 5–4. The Mets do not score for him and their relief pitchers blow his leads. I just checked and was shocked to discover he has only the 20th worst run support in baseball. To make things worse the Mets fielded a particularly bad lineup without Brandon Nimmo, by far their best player. Alan and I predict the final score and compete to see who does better. I was going to predict the Mets losing 2–1 but decided that was over-reacting and changed it to 3–2. Jacob deGrom pitched 8 innings and didn’t give up a run. He left the game tied, the Mets didn’t score either. The game ran true to form. Nobody scored in the 9th. We went to extra innings. In the tent Mets got two players on with two outs and Brandon Nimmo came in to pinch hit. Guess what he did. Come on guess. He hit a HOME RUN! Alan had the Mets winning 3–2 so he won our game within the game, but it was worth it for the team’s victory. Even in a lost season I root for the Mets to win.
The reason I left late for the game was that I was on the phone with the Amazon and the Post Office. I wrote about this before, a quick recap. Last week I ordered something from Amazon; it was supposed to arrive on Thursday. I got a text from Amazon that delivery was attempted but I had been home all day and they didn’t come. The Post Office said they left a tag in my mailbox, they didn’t. I talked to Amazon via chat and was told that it would be redelivered on Monday as I was going away for the weekend. When I was in New Bedford I got a text that they attempted redeliver, when they weren’t supposed to. On Tuesday I called Amazon and explained what happened. They put me on the phone with the USPS. I was told it would be redelivered on Wednesday.
I waited until the end of the business day and called Amazon again and explained what happened. Once again, they connected me to the post office. The person I talked to said that he put in a ticket for redelivery for Thursday. I told him that’s what I was told the day before, but he said, “no this was a different kind of ticket.” He said that he would fix things. That talk was why I was late. The Amazon Rep told me that if I didn’t get it Thursday that I should call Amazon and they’d overnight me a new order and I’d get it Friday.
Yesterday I got a call in the morning from the post office about the order for redelivery. Unfortunately, it was the Columbus Circle Post Office where I have my PO box. My package was in the Bronx. I had gone through all this with the guy I talked to on Wednesday. The guy that was going to fix everything sent the order into the wrong post office. Columbus Circle told me that they’d forward it to the right one. It was too late. I didn’t get it. It was a week after I was supposed to receive it and I hadn’t. I called Amazon. The customer rep said he’d ship out a new order and that I’d get it on Saturday. I told him, I was promised it would be overnighted and I’d get it Friday. I was going to stand my ground; I had been through too much. He checked with his supervisor. It wasn’t available to be sent overnight but he’d tell the post office to resend the original. I told him that I had enough and that I wanted the new order sent too, that I’d get on Saturday and I wanted to not pay for it. He said, that I beat him to it and that was what he was going to offer. He then went further and told me that I would be refunded my entire Amazon Prime subscription. That’s over $100. I told him that he did a great job. When he asked if there were anything else I could do I said, “Kill somebody at the post office.” He laughed and said that he wished he could. That’s how you do customer service.
Yesterday I went to Jane and Bernie’s to clear out the rest of my things. Jane drove me up to Melissa’s, I forgot her nom de blog, who had my other things stored and I left my winter clothes at her house and picked up some other things that I had left there. Now I have to unpack. I discovered that the coffee I had ordered had been sent to Jane’s. I thought I had it sent to my PO Box. I was wondering where that was. I am almost out and not having coffee would be a tragedy. I could buy at Trader Joe’s but Ahrre’s is better. It is the official coffee of Wise Madness. That’s because I love it. I should start selling sponsorships; John Deere, the official tractor of Wise Madness. I’m not sure what I’d do with a tractor. Maybe Tesla will give me a car if I say they are the official car. Ice cream and chocolate companies should be falling all over themselves to be my sponsor. I would do it for free ice cream.
I had been thinking of having a birthday party but found that I already had plans the weekend after my birthday. In fact, I had plans every day but my birthday. Then yesterday I found out that Tomoko Omura’s new band is playing that night so I’m going to celebrate by seeing them.
Yes! I’m finishing this before 11. My reward is breakfast.
Wise Madness 