Because it went to Oregon from Spokane WA and it’s taken 3 days to get to Eden. It’s now on its way to Houston TX.
It should get there Friday. We think.
And I delayed mailing it last Friday because I didn’t want it sitting in a truck in Houston all weekend.
The irony, it burns!
In the meanwhile, I’ve readjusted to the narrow keyboard on the older Latitude, and have my fingers crossed hoping that they don’t end up wiping the disc on the ailing machine. It’s so much easier just to plug the data back into a known structure. Reinstalls are a pita.
My new machine will get here on the 28th. They say. They told me I’d have the first machine back by tomorrow. Which I suppose conceivably might have happened had I mailed it last Friday, so it’s my own fault. But the question is would it have moved from Oregon last weekend, or would it have sat in a Fedex parking lot? At least I know it is going to get handed to a repair center on Friday. So it will set there until Monday at least. Maybe get fixed and air-shipped back. That will get it here, oh, maybe next Tuesday or Wednesday. Or Thursday. Or Friday. That means a get a few days to restore its files before I move them onto the new machine, and the old machine gets to play backup and road machine to the new one.
This epic road trip requires a theme song: Yakety Sax.
Yes!
Apparently you called Dell and talked to a tech support – my brother! He said you were very nice, for which I thank you, because sometimes people who call tech support are – shall we say – not in the mood to be nice!
I hope all your computer problems vanish in the wind and all is smooth sailing – okay, okay, we are talking about electronics here, but oh well. One can always hope.
agricola-ji, I hope your brother knows who he was talking to! If not, you should let him know…..maybe he’ll be as big a fan as the rest of us. 😉 (unless he is already.) But then, those of us who have had the pleasure of meeting CJ and Jane in person know what nice people they are.
Goodness me, in the ‘small world’ department, agricola! Your brother was a delight. And helped a lot, for one thing, in letting me know what was going on!
So the computer was on its way to Eden. Did it meet a band of wayward space hippies? If it left Eden, does this mean the computer was expelled like the rest of us? Hmm…. I suppose if it comes back wearing whatever well-dressed computers wear, you’ll know?
I shall be sure to wave to it as it passes through Houston today. “Hello, computer!” (Hmm, no, that’s for greeting an old Mac, by speaking into its mouse….) Ah well, we shall adjust. — Alas, I will not actually see it, as I am not a Dell minion or a courier driver. But one shall welcome it in spirit. That is, if computers have spirits. Hmm…see previous paragraph, one supposes until done. (So we don’t set up some sort of existential-transcendentalist temporal causality loop. …Oh, dear, too much Treknobabble?)
One wishes agricola-ji’s brother well, and thinks there’s some good chance a computer tech might like CJC’s writing. (That was, in fact, how I was introduced to her writing, many moons ago.)
I get the feeling talking to ker Capt. CJ would be like talking to ker Py or ker Hilfy about the computers on the Pride. … Though it’s a good thing Sandor’s brother (from Lucy) isn’t a factor with CJ’s computer. …Hmm, on my last reread, I thought it would be interesting how (or if) the new crew of Lucy adjusted to that being in the system. If, for instance, the juniors and kids among the (later) new crew (or the kids aboard to do cleanup) adjusted to that. A unique thing among ships, I’d think.
Eden is a small town of about 403 just north of Twin Falls, ID. I suspect that there’s a truck terminal there for FedEx. According to MapQuest, it’s just about 1,700 miles from Eden to Houston, or a couple of days by truck, depending on how many hours the drivers are allowed to be on the road. One wonders what they used to deliver it to Eden, covered wagon drawn by ox-teams?