08:41 – 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.
We’ll both be doing science kit stuff over the next three days. I’m trying to get subassembly inventories for all the kits built up before the summer rush. Today will be a first for me. I’ve never ordered 10,000 of something at a time before, but today I’m putting together a purchase order for bottles and caps. I’ve been ordering 15/415 caps for 15 mL bottles in boxes of 1,440 at a time, but I’d figured I might as well order a full case of 10,000. They’re 20% cheaper that way, and we’ll certainly go through 10,000 of them in the not-too-distant future. I’ll keep ordering the bottles in cases of 1,100 to 1,650, depending on size, because that’s the largest UOM they offer and because our storage space is limited.
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’t get the usual email receipt for the order. So I checked on the Amazon.com site, where the order was showing as “Pending”. 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’s happened, so I canceled my standing order and just ordered the dog treats from WalMart.
09:06 – A victory. Barbara was going to have the old mattress hauled off, but I convinced her we should keep it downstairs. It’s about 15 years old. I think it’s perfectly fine, but Barbara says it’s gotten uncomfortable for her. I pointed out that when we relocate we may do so gradually and it’d be good to have a mattress in each place while we’re doing so. She said she’d actually thought about that, so it wasn’t that hard to convince her to hold onto it.