curling yay!

First night of women's league last night. Won in seven ends -- largely, I must admit, because flt's sweepers were not accustomed to the weight at which she throws her hits. We got a couple of lucky steals.

But I got to use my new shoes, and they pleased me very much! Once I, um, stopped falling off of them, which took about three ends.

update from eBay land

So after the Lamp Seller left me negative feedback ("DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS BUYER! RECEIVED ITEM IN 7 DAYS AND LEFT BAD FEEDBACK!" -- which, ew, LIES, and I commented that he'd promised to ship within two days of receiving payment, instead shipped eight days after receiving payment, and I left NEUTRAL feedback -- but I'm not prepared to go through the whole Process of having things removed, because who cares that much?), my feedback score is -1, because I use eBay so vanishingly seldom. No biggie, right? Except that I go to buy something with a Buy It Now button, and I can't, because the seller has automatically excluded people with negative star ratings.

Fucking argh.

Fortunately, I am allowed to contact the seller and try to work something out. So I do, promising that I'm a decent buyer but infrequent user and this one seller was upset that I'd left him neutral feedback about how he never answered a single communication; and she got back to me within two hours to say she'd added me to the approved-buyer list and I should be able to go ahead. And I double-checked with her the shipping cost, which wasn't listed, and then went ahead and bought the thing, and paid immediately, and she sent me a message letting me know she'd received the payment, and then another message this morning that the thing had shipped.

Fucking YAY!

It's nice to have a positive experience to take the bad taste out of your mouth, no? I just hope she leaves me a positive feedback to bring my score back to 0, because if there are automatic consequences to negative numbers, that I can live without. (I won an auction three or four years ago where I left the seller positive feedback and she never left me a thing. If only! This recent yutz's negative wouldn't have caused me that much trouble.)

i don't want to talk about it.

Just, next year, someone remind me to take Metro on Halloween, willya?