Yesterday, I was watching that UPS tracking page like a hawk. I mean, when I made my order for the laptop the online store provided me with a tracking number and every day I clicked on the link looking for some good news. While I was at work, I’m sure I was getting a little neurotic about hitting the refresh button every hour or so. See, I made the mistake of having the order delivered to my home address instead of work. So, I was hoping to keep an eye on the status to see when the package was on the truck. That way I could hustle over back home and be ready to receive it. At the end of the work day there was no update to the page except for the bit saying that it was at the last station before going out. I thought there would be no worries, and that I could just work from home and receive it. Well, when I got home I saw a notice on the door indicating that the UPS people came by but no one was available to receive it. Curses! What the hell was that? Of course, it really didn’t change anything in terms of receiving the package on the next available day. However, I was frustrated knowing that I could have had it a day earlier. It’s not my fault though: they didn’t update that damn status page.
Anyway, the UPS site says that for residential locations deliveries can happy any time between the period of 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Hold up…step back for a moment. Look at that time range. That’s a 10 hour window! What the hell is that? I’m lucky in that I’m able to work from home, but what about other people? Seems somewhat unreasonable to me, you know? So, I was up and plugging away at work from my couch from 9 a.m. It’s wasn’t a bad thing. I reckon I got a large amount of work done. Still, by 4 p.m., without any news of an imminent delivery I was starting to get antsy. I had a scheduled run this evening and I was questioning whether I was going to make it or not. Well, finally at 5:30 I got a call from the front door to my cell. The UPS guy finally made it in. Yeah, I’ll be honest, it was all I could do to just remain calm and under control. Upon opening the box I felt like I was a kid at Christmas. I was disciplined enough though to know that it needed a good charge before usage. So, I plugged it in and went for my run. And since my return I’ve been playing around with it and setting things up. This blog entry is actually my first from the MBP. Hopefully there will be at least a thousand more from here.
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2 comments
thethoughtherder says:
Fri. December 4, 2009 at 12:16 am (UTC -5 )
Bizarrely I am in the same position just a few days behind. I’m still on the ‘hitting refresh button’ stage and UPS aren’t updating enough to keep me happy. I’ve been in dire need of a new laptop for a while, my current one is slowly dying, so I’m making the bold move from PC to Mac, been meaning to post about it.
Jay says:
Sat. December 5, 2009 at 10:43 pm (UTC -5 )
Yeah, no kidding, eh? You’ll probably end up cursing the fact that their tracking seems to be a complete waste. However, once your new toy arrives all will be forgotten.
So funny. Exact same scenario.