My life as a rollercoaster
1.) You MAY NOT ship beer through the post office. They will however offer to ship the empty bottles if you remove the beer. How exactly that's helpful, I have no idea.
2.) After that disappointment, I arrive at work to find that I've been offered a talk, on behalf of the collaboration, at Moriond QCD. Exactly 15 ns later I had decided I wanted to go. Italy. In the alps. How cool is that?