this week i've been spending a lot of my time tracking things i ordered last weekend. this is why i do not order stuff over the internet very often. many people use the internet to shop to save time. it doesn't work that way for me. the order may not take long, but as soon as i get the confirmation email with the tracking number, i can't help but repeatedly check to see where my package is.
this week was especially exciting because i ordered three things last weekend. i don't know if i've ever had three packages to track at one time. it's so exciting! well, not that exciting. when you track roughly every hour, most of the time you don't see any movement. as the adage says: "a tracked package doesn't move" or something like that. nothing is more disappointing than to see that my package is still in palatine, illinois, just as it was 45 minutes ago when i last looked.
well, i guess some things are more disappointing.
anyway, last weekend i ordered a laptop, a wireless router and a backpack (that was supposed to come with the laptop, but instead shipped separately). the laptop didn't ship until wednesday. or at least that's when my tracking first picked it up. its first scan was actually in the waning hours of tuesday. when i first tracked it wednesday morning, i puzzeled over the location "C.K.S. Airp" it said. for the state it listed "TW." then it came to me: chang kai shek airport in taipei, taiwan. this was not good news. i assumed it was shipping from california or something. especially troubling was the fact that i had opted for "ground" shipping. how exactly was it supposed to get to me from taiwan by ground? damn my cheapness!!! the last log entry remained "C.K.S. Airp" all day wednesday. i imagined the truck circling the island, looking in vain for a bridge to pennsylvania. when i bought a whole new laptop, why didn't i throw in the extra $18 to have it shipped by air?
but the next morning i got a pleasant surprise. between the time i left work wednesday and when i checked in thursday morning my package went from taiwan to ankorage to indianapolis to philadelphia. it was waiting for me when i got back from arabic last night. now i'm glad i didn't pay the 18 bucks.
so now i have a new toy, but it's not complete until i get the router. the router shipped before the laptop, but it seemed to sit in illinois forever. as the router hung out with the corn the laptop raced passed it and managed to reach me before the router left the state. today, at least, it finally reached philadelphia. but not until the afternoon, so i don't think it will reach me until monday. i guess that's the shipping i should have splurged on. so much for my dreams of setting up the wireless network this weekend...
this week was especially exciting because i ordered three things last weekend. i don't know if i've ever had three packages to track at one time. it's so exciting! well, not that exciting. when you track roughly every hour, most of the time you don't see any movement. as the adage says: "a tracked package doesn't move" or something like that. nothing is more disappointing than to see that my package is still in palatine, illinois, just as it was 45 minutes ago when i last looked.
well, i guess some things are more disappointing.
anyway, last weekend i ordered a laptop, a wireless router and a backpack (that was supposed to come with the laptop, but instead shipped separately). the laptop didn't ship until wednesday. or at least that's when my tracking first picked it up. its first scan was actually in the waning hours of tuesday. when i first tracked it wednesday morning, i puzzeled over the location "C.K.S. Airp" it said. for the state it listed "TW." then it came to me: chang kai shek airport in taipei, taiwan. this was not good news. i assumed it was shipping from california or something. especially troubling was the fact that i had opted for "ground" shipping. how exactly was it supposed to get to me from taiwan by ground? damn my cheapness!!! the last log entry remained "C.K.S. Airp" all day wednesday. i imagined the truck circling the island, looking in vain for a bridge to pennsylvania. when i bought a whole new laptop, why didn't i throw in the extra $18 to have it shipped by air?
but the next morning i got a pleasant surprise. between the time i left work wednesday and when i checked in thursday morning my package went from taiwan to ankorage to indianapolis to philadelphia. it was waiting for me when i got back from arabic last night. now i'm glad i didn't pay the 18 bucks.
so now i have a new toy, but it's not complete until i get the router. the router shipped before the laptop, but it seemed to sit in illinois forever. as the router hung out with the corn the laptop raced passed it and managed to reach me before the router left the state. today, at least, it finally reached philadelphia. but not until the afternoon, so i don't think it will reach me until monday. i guess that's the shipping i should have splurged on. so much for my dreams of setting up the wireless network this weekend...
