Why Netflix doesn't have The Wire at my local distribution center

This is really annoying.

I've read in so many places how great a show The Wire is, and after watching Deadwood and thinking it's one of the best things ever on TV, I decided to give it a try. So I put the first DVD from the first season in my queue, and it showed "Long Wait" so it took a few tries to get it. That's fair enough. But, when it finally moved up into the "Shipping" part of my queue page, it said they expect to ship it tomorrow. Hmm. That's very unusual. And then I got an email that said it would be shipping tomorrow from a distribution center in another state. That never happened before. Well, I watched the DVD, and I thought it was interesting, so I put the 2nd DVD (which did not say "Long Wait") at the top of my queue. The exact same thing happened. It would ship tomorrow from another city. And would you believe that the third DVD is shipping tomorrow from a city halfway across the goddamn country?!? I do not live in Jericho, Kansas, people. I live in a major metropolitan area on the west coast. There must be at least two distribution centers within this major metropolitan area, and probably several more within the same state. Why do none of these centers have any of The Wire available?

Over the past few months, we've gone through more DVDs that usual, around 10-12 each month. It is possible that this is a form of throttling, but why with these DVDs, which do not show "Long Wait"? Why is it that most new releases which I put at the top of my queue ship right away, even if they do say there is a wait? I've never had any problems with Netflix before, so I'm not thinking about ending our business relationship over this, but it's annoying and I don't get it at all.

Why people don't clean up after themselves

This is one of my pet peeves. People can be so entitled, can be so unaware of what's going on around them and how other people manage to take care of their own business, plus that of slobs, that they never even realize it. Earlier today, there was birthday cake for a coworker, and the leftovers were put in the break room. Just now, walking through the break room, I noticed that the cake was all gone, but the platters were left out, full of crumbs and icing-covered plastic knives. Is it too much to ask that the person who takes the last piece of cake throw away the paper platter it was setting on? I asked this, rhetorically, of another coworker who was getting some coffee, and he sighed, and pointed to the half-full single serving container of creamer someone left on the counter. Are they trying to conserve resources in the hope that someone else who only wants half a cream will take it? Cause that will never happen. Or, more likely, they're just too much of a slob to bother to throw it away.

My SO said to me last night, "Hey, tomorrow's trash day, you better take the trash out." I gave him a dirty look, and he laughed, cause he knew I knew he was just playing asshole. It got me to thinking though, which would be worse, an SO who tells you it's trash day, and you better take the trash out, or an SO who has no idea when trash day is?

Buca di Beppo

I just went there for dinner for the first time. I got a $10 promotional gift card in the mail, and we figured we should give it a shot. It was pretty good. The gift card basically let us get a free dessert, and the bellini was very strong. There's nothing I don't get about the menu, it's your basic Italian-American favorites served family style. However, if you are not dining with your family, there is a small selection of single-serving dishes. They generally cost about $2 less than the "small" family portion (serves 2-3 people). I totally get why they put it on the menu, but why would anyone order it? For $2 more, you get to take half of your entree home for lunch tomorrow. Sounds like a bargain to me.

We had the baked pasta sampler (the small portion), a caesar salad (with real anchovies on top), and the chocolate vesuvio for dessert. All of it was fine. I'm not sure we'd go back if it's just the two of us, but I think it would be a nice place to go with a group, so that way everyone could try a lot of different things.