No good deed goes unpunished

Remember the couch we had in our old place? The Friday before we left Colorado, Salvation Army was to come by and haul away our couch since nobody else seemed to want it. They arrived and told us they didn't have room for it in the truck. WTF? If you know you can't do it, don't even bother showing up. Also, this had been scheduled weeks in advance so there's really no reason they should have failed to have room. They'd promised to pick it up the following Monday. We were moving out the day before, so we had no choice but to leave it in the driveway for them with a sign on it. They hadn't left us time to make any other arrangements.

We heard from our former landlord yestereve that they had never come to get it, and that he eventually had to have someone come in, chop it up and haul it away. The cost of this came our of our security deposit, of course. So our attempt to donate to goodwill has cost us an unspecified amount of money. The next time I have something to donate to Salvation Army, I will instead hack it into pieces and throw it in the garbage. That's apparently what's going to happen anyway, and if I do it myself I won't have to pay for it.

Also, we discovered that after saying they wanted to take it with them, the movers had unceremoniously chucked the mattress boxes behind the dumpster. The garbage collectors refused to take it like that (it's huge), so now we have to either haul it away or chop it up. I plan to call up both Salvation Army and National Van Lines and bitch at them. It won't do any good, but it needs to be done.

Hopefully pictures from Lassen will be posted this evening.

Lassen Volcanic National Park

This past weekend and earlier part of this week, we were on a mini-vacation to wine country and Lassen Volcanic National Park. The pictures are posted here. Note that this my web page has moved. I've moved all the earlier pictures to the new site as well. There should be redirects in place.

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