et tu, Apple?

I'm being a little unfair in tagging this as "customer abuse" but hey, that's the sort of curmudgeonly guy I am. Anyway. Apple sent me a text message to tell me my shipment is on the way (tut tut, that's potentially a violation of the Irish data protection regulations, but I'll let it slide) and to check store.apple.com/irl/orderstatus for the status of my order.
So I did.
And it said:

Shipment Status

Your Order Number: W[number]

This service is currently unavailable, please try again later

staying healthy will be the death of me

I started my new gym programme this evening, which is basically the old one except with more focus on strengthening core muscles. By which I mean my stomach is wondering what the hell just happened, and every five minutes or so I twist my torso in some way that makes me stop and gingerly return to a more relaxed state. This better be good for me, dammit.

wait, what does my employment status have to do with my mail reader?

Can't view the graphics in this email or self-employed? Please see [here].

I... have no comment here. Bizarre.

odd (but good) compliment

I was shooting the breeze somewhat with one of our security folks today, and I jokingly said something like, "yes, but I'm crazy", to which he replied (approximately), "sure you're crazy, but you do things the right way".
Which was nice.