What curmudgeon? I resemble that incineration.
Actually, I forwarded your kind (?) assessment from earlier today
of my disposition to my wife, who had to work today while I
didn't, and this was her reply:
"You can tell your entire list for me that you HAVE achieved
curmudgeonhood in a BIG WAY!!!!"
In any event, I have located a local one-hour E-6 processing
facility. It is a bit of a drive away -- about 45 minutes -- near
Emory University. But that's a very photogenic area, both Emory's
campus and the nearby neighborhoods, plus the CDC is just up the
street, where I might get some super macro shots of germs of mass
destruction, while hanging around waiting on my slides to be done.
Every silver lining had a cloud. Or something like that.
Walt
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:29:02 -0800
>Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>>Instead, the idiots of the United States Postal Service returned
the mailer with the unprocessed film to me today. Somehow, these
morons were unable to figure out that the address on the side with
the stamps and following the word "To" was where it was hoped they
would deliver it, not to the address on the back, following the
words "Return address." It's a shame their job is so complicated
and confusing, requiring the reading of the English language at
maybe a fourth grade level. Perhaps their lips get tired.
>>
>Thanks so much Walt, for providing such an excellent example of
>"Curmudgeon talk" as a companion piece to the recent
definitions ;-)
>An alternative viewpoint might be:
>
>On March 24, I sent a perfectly exposed and composed 36 exp. roll
of Fuji Provia 100F off to A&I for processing. I thought I ought
to be getting a little blue box of incomparable slides back in the
mail about now.
>
>Although I didn't receive what I was expecting, fortunately, the
United States Postal Service returned the mailer with the
unprocessed film to me today. I know mail sometimes goes astray
and I was lucky the last time that the recipient was kind enough
to return it to me. I count my blessings that this roll too is not
lost forever.
>
>I guess it's time I found a local E-6 processor.
>
>Anybody want to buy a dozen or so A&I E-6/Kodachrome mailers?
>Cheap!
>
>Moose
>
>"Expecting everything to go according to plan is a sure formula
for disappointment."
>
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