How very strange...

I have just received a parcel from DHL. The man saw me through the window and motioned to me to open the door (this is a regular slightly annoying occurence because we live on the ground floor!) He said "er yeah...er I have a parcel for a Naomi Turner? but there's no flat number". I said: "oooh I'm a Naomi Turner!" and signed for the parcel. How exciting!! I love getting parcels.

I walked back inside, slightly puzzled. It was from Blackwell's University bookshop, but I had not placed an order(?!) Perhaps a member of my family had been very organised with my Christmas present and had it sent ahead early...?

Imagine my surprise when out comes a piece of software entitled "MATLAB AND SIMULINK". Eh? It wasn't pink, certainly not fluffy and didn't even make a jingly noise when you shook it, so it definitely wasn't something that I could immediately interpret! The blonde braincells were ticking. Was it a gift from the Lord for the Trinity Growth Project?! Hmmm...

It includes:

MATLAB® Featured Products

* SimBiology™
* Link for Cadence®
Incisive®
* Link for ModelSim®
* Distributed Computing Toolbox
* Data Acquisition Toolbox


Simulink® Featured Products

* SimHydraulics™
* SimEvents™
* SystemTest
* Video and Image Processing Blockset

As you can see, I totally wouldn't get it! I called Blackwell's in a most CHRISTIAN manner, trying to explain their mistake, but they insisted that they didn't even have my details registered and kept exclaiming "Isn't that strange??" "YES!! YOU ARE very strange!!" I had to keep myself from replying. He then said "...and it's of no use to you whatsoever?" Do I sound like I would make use of SimHydraulics?! "Er...no".

"Well you could send it back to us but then you'd have to pay the postage and we'd have to refund it... Maybe you'd better just keep hold of it". Keep hold of it? Yeah right, it's going on eBay unless anyone CAN make use of it?! Shame he just wasted some £50 software because he couldn't be bothered to pay postage though. How very peculiar and lightly amusing in an ironic sort of fashion...