no new york times delivery today, so that means i am crabby. our newspaper delivery is really spotty here. about 5-10% of the time it either doesn't arrive at all or arrives too late for me to read it on the train to work. our neighbors used to subscribe to the philadelphia inquirer but canceled because the delivery was so bad. service actually improved after they canceled. they got a free paper most days for the rest of the year that they lived here. even now, three years later, we get an inquirer fairly often. (but not today)
i will give our paper delivery person one thing, he/she has balls. a few weeks ago our paper did not show up one day and then was too late for me to read before i left on the next. when it finally did arrive (around mid-day, i am told) there was a little card tucked in with the paper instructing us where to send a christmas bonus. i think the paper was late the next day too.
crab crab crab!