Success: So I was out on my bike today. The excursion was disguised as exercise, but it was mostly just a waste of time because I was too hasty to check a map. Normally I’m not like this, but I was going straight from class and was in a hurry.

I’d just been wondering yesterday where my new Palm off eBay was, until I saw the notice that Canada Post had left for me. Seems it was a big enough parcel that I needed to go pick it up at the Albert Street Post Office. Now I’d remembered seeing one a twenty minute cycle away at the shopping mall, and I’d thought the mall was on Albert. And since the post office on the slip was listed for Albert street, yeah, you get the idea. Turned out the one they meant was just around the corner from where I’m staying. Hilarity… for everyone except me. : )

There was some poor guy at the office mailing out a parcel (lingerie, I think) almost the exact size and mass as mine. His was going to BC by groundmail and was costing over $20. Mine came from Virginia by airmal and cost US$6. Of course, there’s the possibility that I would have had to pay import duties, but I guess they didn’t check it or didn’t care.

Anyways, it’s all picked up and working famously, now. So that’s good. Left a positive for my seller.

Failure: Well, not entirely. But definitely approaching it. So yeah, two weeks ago on Sunday I ordered Star Wars off FutureShop.ca, thinking I could get the first day special price and receive it as soon as possible without having to trek up to the mall to buy it.

Thursday of that week rolls around, and an email shows up in my inbox declaring that there’s a problem with my credit card. Now, don’t get me wrong here, I definitely appreciate that they take the time to validate this stuff and not bill some purchase to me that’s being shipped off to Venezuela. But the fact that I didn’t get a ‘we shipped it’ notice until the following Monday was a little annoying. And now it’s the Tuesday a week after that, and it’s still not here.

Not that I particularly care. I should be studying instead of watching Star Wars anyways. But the great irony of all this is that I’ve actually been at that Future Shop store not once but TWICE in the period since the movie came out. The SMC router that I purchased there at the beginning of the term was garbage — according to online support forums, Mike and I ‘overheated’ it by downloading too much too quickly. Whoops. I think he was on Kazaa and I was grabbing Service Pack 2. On the other hand, it was a $20 unit, with the rebate.

The slightly more expensive entry-level D-Link from CampusTech seems to be functioning well, though, so all is well.

Mike

thinking I’ll hit WCF retreat this weekend

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