F3 addenda

After this morning's fiasco, the third day of telephoning the La Poste service numbers and getting shoved from phone to phone, and finding they all know nothing, or, only what WE know, (nothing), and spending this afternoon trying to get on with our project here in Slovenia, and calling the company we ordered aggregate from Monday, and being told tonight, 'ena ura', one hour, I stayed around the site, till well after dark, set up lamps so the delivery would be hassle free, and, no, with about eight degrees of frost, and a three hour wait I gave up, went home to the apartment where, with two heaters going and a power cord melting down when we switched a griller on to finish a fine cheese souffle, and the temperature just creeping over 15°C, I decided I just can't give a fuck anymore, about anything, and glimpsing on the CNN news the major industrialists of the civilised world have just put up a proposal to do something about climate change by 2050 and I think...yeah, who gives a fuck? But they stymied Donald Trump's attempt to build a golf course on a fine piece of bird country in Scotland, so, someone up there does..... I've been rained out on all my attempts to get to Scotland, DT too...... nuff said

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We've been awaiting the arrival of a new computer, being sent from France, for a variety of good reasons, and the freighters have a very cute blobby window which pops into our life and allows us to track our parcel; well, that's the idea, however, the tracking blob does not seem to be attached/connected to any sentient lifeforms at the other end, and for a week we've watched a 'no progress' situation develop in our heads, mainly, as phoning Slovenia and Germany, the two likely transits, get us zero, and the French end doesn't know anything at all. Wouldn't you like to be able to sell a well-decorated box of nothing to some freight giant for half a million, and go out and pose on the proceeds? There are too many such events going on for me to be content with the state of affairs. What really troubles me is having shown us an apparently 'instantaneous' update of our progress, the process of being compensated for these idiots losing our computer will take three months... you don't believe it? That's what it took to get recompensed for a digital camera sent France - Italy, when the clerk INSISTED we describe the contents, a detail specifically to avoid at all costs when sending to Italy, and which brings me to the obvious; shouldn't all our purchases be in plain brown wrappers instead of blaring to all what's inside? Well, we don't get to control how something is wrapped, but we'd sure like to change how ALL of the freight systems in Europe operate, but don't hold your breath for positive news.... Nuff said.