Feeling Ornery

I was put on this earth to learn patience, but I'm slipping. Last night I ordered a bunch of Kool Aid from American Candy in Oz. This morning I get an unpunctuated email from *someone* - they don't identify themselves - saying they don't know what I'm paying for. I have to go and look up the Paypal record to work out what's going on. I told them off and cancelled the order. Maybe it was yesterday's strain of being professionally polite to customers for four hours while struggling with the computer in the second-hand book shop, followed by the rude checkout chick at Franklins. 'Scuse me, I'm just blowing off steam.

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... just now, a *very* rude email telling me they won't refund my money until I tell them what I ordered. What the fuck?!

Images of war

CIA accused of link to Iraq prison torture

The pictures. Not pretty.

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... *another* rude email. Got the owner's email address this time, though, and cc-ed my response to him.

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... a refund, and no further emails. Judging by the names, I was talking to junior, and when I cc'ed daddy into the conversation he sorted the mess out.

Genesis 13

You'll find the text here. My notes to myself follow.

- Couple of mentions of Sodom and Gomorrah so far, though we're not up to the account of their destruction. That suggests their fate was well-known, even proverbial, so the text needs to explain this was before all that.

- It's so odd to constantly encounter modern place names, such as Hebron. It reminds you that this legendary-seeming world has a very real setting.

- A cheeky fellow on talk.bizarre claimed he had committed the sin of Gomorrahy, but IIRC wouldn't go into details.

- Mondy, something extremely interesting which you mentioned - the idea that this is *not* what it looks like, a history of the world. If you're still reading, I'd love to hear more about that!