What made you frown today?

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Sorry about bad dreams Kelly...hope you get lots of good down time. Wear sunscreen! Er...do puppets need feltscreen? Sunfelt? Felt lotion?

Hope you are soon financially independent, Bob. I wouldn't move back in with my parents if you paid me to.

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I went to get a flat tire fixed and then was told that I should replace my front tires because they were worn down on the outside. The thing was, I did that last year, for the exact same reason and thought I had had the adjustment realigned. So, bought the new tires and made a note to call the mechanic (after my dad) to set up an appoinment to get the aligmnent adjusted. My dad also thought we had gotten the alignement readjust, so he suggested I ask the mechanic if he had a record from last year of an alignment appointment. When I called him, lo and behold, he did. So he's gonna look at tomorrow and see what went wrong. So it worked out but it was just kinda agravatting all around.

I had a video shoot today, but I was rushed through a lot of it, and I ended up losing a LOT of concentration and focus because my mind was on the time and not on the scenes, so I have to basically start all over again tomorrow.

Oh I'm sorry about that, that's always frustrating. What was the shoot for?

I'm finishing up Steve's latest YouTube video that I've been working on for about a month now, lol. It has quite a bit of on-location shooting, but unfortunately, it's very time-pressing.

Another thing that made me frown today: TN's been ranked the second-least peaceful state in the country... sadly, I believe it, this state is NOTORIOUS for drugs, crime, tension, etc... it's dangerous.

I have an EX from TN. It's all true. Hahahahahahah!

*ahems* Anyway, what made me frown today....and burst into a tourettes syndrome-esque tantrum was the idiot drivers on the road today who all seemed to drive HUGE cars that they just HAD to peel out to jam in between mine and the car infront of me...only to go 10 miles under the limit and ending it abruptly in a blinkerless turn.

Ohhh there aren't enough little bleep stars on this web page to conceal my rage! YAR!

Guh! I started feeling poorly when I got home from work today. I reeaally hope it's allergies and it'll lessen or go away by tomorrow. I am not fun at work when I don't feel well, plus I have a script I have to line and that will not happen if I can't concentrate.

If where YOU are is anything like where -I- am, then it probably IS allergies. The trees are out of control. It's pretty ridiculous.
I'm gonna drink to you getting better....since I'm not big on booze...let's hope this strong coffee does the trick for ya. I wont mother ya but you know the drill. Vitamins (EXTRA C), fluids, rest, yadda yadda blah blah blah.

Feel better!

Not so much 'frown', as 'seriously weirded me out', but there isn't a thread for that.

Around 12:30 or so, two guys I've never seen before pull into my driveway. One gets out and comes up to the porch, does nothing that I can discern, then gets back in and drives off. About 1:20, they show up again, pull in to the driveway backwards and just sit there for the better part of an hour, until I get up the courage to open the window and shout, "Excuse me!", a couple times, at which point they take off. I get back from picking my brother up from school and there is a package on the porch addressed to my dad and a note on the front door supposedly written by him, telling the deliverer to leave it there. I bring it in and email my dad, asking if he ordered anything and we get to back-and-forthing about how we should call UPS and ask. Just as I'm about to jot down the tracking number, the guys show up again. This time, the other one rings the doorbell and tells me that there was a processing mix-up and somehow his package got sent to our house with my dad's name on it. I give him the package and they take off. Now, the more I think about the story, the less it makes sense, the more I'm thinking I just wound up in the middle of something illegal that could be traced back here and the closer I come to a full-on panic attack!

Could somebody please tell me if such a mis-addressing could actually happen before my blood pressure hit critical?

In all honesty, just reading your story left me scratching my head... maybe it would make more sense if I lived it or at least witnessed it myself, but yeah, I really can't figure this out.

For myself, apparently, I'm the "Director from ****".

So your dad did not remember ordering anything?

Not a thing.

ZeppoAndFriends, two questions about your previous post:
1. So there was a note that appeared to be written by your dad, but your dad didn't write it?
2. Did the guys come in some sort of delivery truck or just a normal car?

1. I knew it wasn't my dad's handwriting (probably should have noted that) and besides the fact, he's currently in another state (long and complicated story) and couldn't have written it anyway.

2. It was just a normal car, with a temp plate that I couldn't make out.

The current train of thought is that they thought our house was empty and had the package delivered here thinking nobody would be here to accept it.

A better question is was the package itself delivered by a delivery truck but if he was out when it came he wouldnt know.

If such a mix up could occur, why did these guys not just know of your door before it arrived instead of acting all sketchy. It sounds like they wanted to head off the delivery so that it would not reach you and when that failed they waited until you were gone. They obviously came back to put the note on the door.

I find it hard to believe that if they were dealing in something illegal like drugs they would have it shipped to some random person's house.

The only logical thing that I can come up with is identity theft but even that seems strange as most people would not have whatever they ordered shipped to the persons house

For the sake of clearing things up, here's what we think is going on.

These two guys, for whatever reason, don't want their package (which was from AT&T) delivered to their house, so they pick a house they think is unoccupied and/or empty most of the day within driving distance and have it sent there. They come to the house and leave a note (which was what the first visit was about) and decide to come back later. When they do, the package isn't there, so they decide to wait. When I made myself known (should've gone with my first instinct and called the police), they take off. They then get an email or instant message that says it had been delivered (he showed it to me on his phone) and come back to find that it's not on the porch, so one of them rings and asks about it while the other one keeps the car far enough away that the license can't be seen. I ask some questions, he gives answers that only make sense as long as you don't think about them, and, like a sucker, I buy it and hand the package over.

The theory is they stole somebody else's credit card number and/or are planning on balking on the payment and wanted to make sure it couldn't be traced directly back to them.

EDIT: I had started this post before the previous post was made, hence the reason this theory was posted after another similar explanation was.

This is sort of an odd explanation I came up with, but:
Maybe the guys ordered something that they didn't want delivered to their house, possibly they didn't want someone to know that they had ordered it. So they thought that no one was living in the house, and had it delivered there under your dad's name. They found out that this delivery was going to be delivered soon, so they thought they'd better make sure that no one lived there. They sat outside of your house hoping that if someone was there, the person would come out to see why they were there, which you did. They left, and then later you left. They returned and put a note from your dad out, just in case the package would be delivered before they returned, then you wouldn't notice anything suspicious. They returned to find that the package had been delivered, so they made up the story that it had been mixed up, so they could take the package with the item they ordered.

Being excluded from everything for being one year too young.

I am so unbelievably disgusted with Bono and U2 right now. I'm sorry, but anyone who claims to worship God but then mocks Him in their songs not five minutes later immediately goes on my bad list. Boycott ahoy!