Miscellany

[stoutfellow]

This week's entree has been a noodle kugel. My dictionary defines "kugel" as a kind of pudding, eaten as a side-dish or dessert; Moosewood puts it in the "Entrees" section. I suppose that if you make enough of anything, it's an entree. This one is, yes, a pudding, made from egg noodles, eggs, chopped apples, cottage cheese, cream cheese, and sour cream, appropriately spiced and sprinkled with bread crumbs; as usual, it's improved with age. (I made enough this time; I still have two servings left.) Good stuff.

I'm really rather pleased with my geometry students. We've just gotten into hyperbolic geometry proper, and they've been asking plenty of good questions. Two of the students are grad students whom I've had several times before - one of them is my current Masters' student - and they're performing as expected, but there are four or five more who are also absorbing the material pretty well. (There are always students who will mimic the smile and nod of comprehension, but very few can fake the abstracted look that goes with the real thing, with genuine real-time processing of what they're hearing. I'm seeing that look gratifyingly often this semester.)

The latest additions to my music collection are albums by Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and Sade. I already had a few of Stevie's songs, from the Motown: The Classic Years album, but I didn't have, for example, "Sir Duke", "For Once In My Life", or "I Was Made To Love Her". I'm not familiar with most of Marley's work, but, having enjoyed the Desmond Dekker album I bought a while back, I thought I'd get a little more reggae, and Marley's the obvious place to start. As for Sade, I know a couple of her chart-toppers - "Smooth Operator", "The Sweetest Taboo" - and like them enough to take a flyer on the rest. I'll be paying a visit to Amazon this weekend and plan to order a few more CDs, after which it'll be time to reorganize my playlists again.

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't. I suppose I should have, but I really don't know the ropes.

[filkferengi]

iirc, you have 90 days after the transaction to post feedback. It's recommended you try to work things out before posting negative feedback [which deducts one point from the offender's feedback score]. There's a button on the item to contact the seller. I assume eBay keeps a record of such communiques.

On the eBay site map, there should be a link to how to go through eBay itself to try to resolve things with sellers. You may have to dig a bit, but it should be there.

After the 90 days or so, you can no longer post feedback of any kind.

I'm sorry you've had a negative experience. I've done nearly a thousand transactions the last 8 years & only had one person not send the item. Some have egregiously ripped me off on shipping charges, not described the item correctly, etc., but at least they sent it. I've received a couple of defective items, but the sellers were all eager to offer a refund or other restitution.

Anyway, hth.

P. S. I suggest you talk to neonnurse; she's been a dealer on eBay for *years* & would know where the applicable links are. She might have other ideas about dealing with deadbeat dealers.

Hth.