{"id":2224,"date":"2015-03-20T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:06:43","slug":"friday-20-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/20\/friday-20-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 20 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:41 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara took the day off. She ordered a new mattress and wanted to get the bedroom cleaned out and be here when the mattress was delivered.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We&#8217;ll both be doing science kit stuff over the next three days. I&#8217;m trying to get subassembly inventories for all the kits built up before the summer rush. Today will be a first for me. I&#8217;ve never ordered 10,000 of something at a time before, but today I&#8217;m putting together a purchase order for bottles and caps. I&#8217;ve been ordering 15\/415 caps for 15 mL bottles in boxes of 1,440 at a time, but I&#8217;d figured I might as well order a full case of 10,000. They&#8217;re 20% cheaper that way, and we&#8217;ll certainly go through 10,000 of them in the not-too-distant future. I&#8217;ll keep ordering the bottles in cases of 1,100 to 1,650, depending on size, because that&#8217;s the largest UOM they offer and because our storage space is limited.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Amazon is behaving strangely. Yesterday, I ordered an ebook from them, which as usual I chose to download for transfer by USB. That worked fine, but I noticed that I didn&#8217;t get the usual email receipt for the order. So I checked on the Amazon.com site, where the order was showing as &#8220;Pending&#8221;. It stayed that way for several hours, even though I had successfully downloaded the ebook. Then, this morning, I got email from Amazon saying that my subscribe-and-save order for five 2-pound boxes of Alpo Snaps dog treats had been canceled. When I checked the item it showed availability of 2 to 5 weeks. This is the second time in a row that&#8217;s happened, so I canceled my standing order and just ordered the dog treats from WalMart.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:06 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> A victory. Barbara was going to have the old mattress hauled off, but I convinced her we should keep it downstairs. It&#8217;s about 15 years old. I think it&#8217;s perfectly fine, but Barbara says it&#8217;s gotten uncomfortable for her. I pointed out that when we relocate we may do so gradually and it&#8217;d be good to have a mattress in each place while we&#8217;re doing so. She said she&#8217;d actually thought about that, so it wasn&#8217;t that hard to convince her to hold onto it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:41 &#8211; Barbara took the day off. She ordered a new mattress and wanted to get the bedroom cleaned out and be here when the mattress was delivered.\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll both be doing science kit stuff over the next three days. I&#8217;m trying to get subassembly inventories for all the kits built up before the summer rush. Today will be a first for me. I&#8217;ve never ordered 10,000 of something at a time before,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/20\/friday-20-march-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 20 March 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}