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I was going to use my Windows XP box to grab a couple images off of the card from my camera for you all to see, but Toby just now decided to chew through the cord to my second to last mouse (the last of which is connected to my Linux box). Fucker.
It turns out [...]

First, I would like to apologize to Brad and Matt for unknowingly forcing them to skip lunch. Time flys by quickly, I guess.
I have a ZiO! USB Compact Flash Card reader made by MicroTech. It cost me $35. It uses a USBAT2 chipset to communicate with the USB subsystem. This is the same chip embedded [...]

I told the sales person that I wanted at 49mm UV filter for the camera. He tried to upsell me into getting the full filter kit, which I declined. Somehow, he decided that that meant not to include any filter at all. It's not on the invoice, or in the box. No big deal though. [...]

It's here. Yay!

I just got home to wait for the UPS man. The InfoNotice claims the following:
We attempted to Deliver
1 Pkgs
Next Attempt will be made on [blank]
Approximate time of next attempt: [blank]
1st Attempt
Signature Required on delivery
In your absence the package(s) was left at:
Office
Comments: after 12:00
Yet, when I actually punch in the InfoNotice on their site, it says [...]

Going home to pick up package.
Woo!

This distribution center in Dallas will be giving me a call within one hour to arrange a redelivery to my apartment office, or to arrange a meeting between the driver and I to pick up the package.
I like UPS.

Fuck. They didn't deliver it because I wasn't home, even though they said they would drop it off at my apartment complex office. I am on the phone with UPS now. Blech.

Wow. They weren't lying. They actually shipped it.

       
PACKAGE PROGRESS
Date Time Location Activity
Mar 14, 2002  7:26 A.M. DALLAS, TX, US OUT FOR DELIVERY
   5:55 A.M. DALLAS, TX, US ARRIVAL SCAN
   5:28 A.M. DALLAS-FT WORTH, TX, US DEPARTURE SCAN
   5:15 A.M. DALLAS-FT WORTH, TX, US ARRIVAL SCAN
   3:00 A.M. GREATER ROCKFORD, IL, US DEPARTURE SCAN
  12:31 A.M. ROCKFORD AIR HUB, IL, US LOCATION SCAN
Mar 13, 2002 11:42 P.M. GREATER ROCKFORD, IL, US ARRIVAL SCAN
  10:09 P.M. JFK [...]