Brown Paper Of The Soul

The 'Doctor Who' DVDs have been sold, and I don't mind at all. 'Doctor Who' has always been such a marginally acceptable series here in Quirky Muffin world that it's amazing that so many discs accrued over time. However, reclaiming a massive amount of space is not the primary topic here so much as the horrors of wrapping up the parcels. Good grief. How on Earth has parcel wrapping never somehow been made easier? It's almost an exercise in endurance hyperdimensional geometry!

In the aftermath, it seems as if most of the sellotape in the Western Hemisphere has been used, along with a kilometer or two of brown paper and bubble wrap, and now we're just left with some very weighty packages. It's unsatisfying. More fussing can not be imagined, after so much one-handed fumbling of tape, springy cardboard and five dozen flaps all coming loose at the most inopportune times. Thankfully, it is now done. Thankfully. Except for Parcel Force.

Oh, for goodness sake, Parcel Force's website is still to come. The most miserable rigged website in the world, perhaps, that requires you be using all three of Windows, Firefox and Adobe PDF reader in order to allow you to do anything. Why not force us to write on the screen in chalk as part of the procedure too? It's incredibly frustrating, especially as there are cashback options for paying online, and cashback is to be hoarded, or completely ignored.

Selling things really is difficult. How on Earth do businesses keep with all these things? How does it happen? At least in this case, a whole crate has been cleared for games and DVDs, which will be nice. Now, the temptation is to fill up the box with yet more marginal things, and it must be resisted! It must! Actually, it's very likely that 'JAG' will up the space, as will the remainders of 'Quincy, ME' and 'The Rockford Files'. That seems nice, and of course there is still a little 'Doctor Who' left, with Smith, McCoy and a smidgen of Hartnell still in the mix. Oh, and 'The Flintstones' or 'Night Court'. These decisions remain for the days to come.

That's a wrap!

O.