It's out for delivery

Published on October 13, 2005 By dharmagrl In Misc

My laptop is 'out for delivery', according to the UPS website.

That means it will be here today! Yay!

I've come to the realization this morning that I'm probably a geek. If I'm not a fully fledged geek, then I certainly have strong geeky tendencies. I mean, I'm getting giddy with excitement over a laptop computer and a wifi connection. I'm daydreaming of all the widgets I'm going to upload; I'm thinking about how cool it's going to be to sit in bed and read the paper online. Not to mention how handy it's going to be for the classes I'm going to start next month (medical transcription) and for my notary public duties.

The kids are pretty happy too. Until we can get them wireless connections for the older computers they have, I'm going to set them up a user account each on the desktop in the living room. They're all of an age where they're using the internet to research homework projects, so we're going to give them a crash course in Word this weekend so they know how to create documents and save them, and where the folders that they save them to are at.

From where I'm sitting, I can see the main street through housing. It's the only way in, and the only way out. I'll be able to see the UPS man coming.....

...gawd, I'm pathetic!

Comments

Chaos Manager

on Oct 13, 2005

Hehe. Welcome to the (geek) club, Dharma.

You do know, once you're stuck w/ that label you'll be scarred for life, right?

dharmagrl

on Oct 13, 2005

You do know, once you're stuck w/ that label you'll be scarred for life, right?

Yes, which is why I've been hesitant to admit it to anyone....including myself. However, now that I've made the first step and voiced my suspicions.....I feel so liberated! FREEDOM! SCHWEET GEEKY FREEDOM!!!!!

I am geek, and I am proud. I think that everyone should embrace their inner geek. Don't fight it, work with it.....

Dr Guy

on Oct 13, 2005

Dont you just love UPS tracking? I have found them tobe the best, but FedEx is not bad either. The USPS and DHL tracking suck tho!

Best of luck. My UPS driver knows my work schedule so he always schedules to be around my house between 5 and 5:30 (You might say I do order a lot off the internet).

Chaos Manager

on Oct 13, 2005

Just don't forget to feed the inner geek with copious amounts of grease (pizza and burgers work well) and caffiene (my inner geek like Mountain Dew, but any caffinated drink will do). Keeps him/her happy.

Chaos Manager

on Oct 13, 2005

My UPS driver knows my work schedule so he always schedules to be around my house between 5 and 5:30 (You might say I do order a lot off the internet).

The UPS driver here has gotten on a first name basis w/ me and my wife (both). He's Melvin.

He'll wave when we pass each other on the road. Even in other neighbourhoods.

Yeah, we order a lot off the 'Net (Amazon.com, mostly). Cheap way to get materials for homeschool. Why pay more @ a brick-and-mortar store ('specially when you have to drive there) when I get usually get 30% (or more) off the cover and free shipping? Yeah, $30/year for free regular shipping and one day shipping is only $3.99. Not bad.

'nuff rambling...

Feed the geek!

Oh, just remember something. Geeks are people, too!!!! I have to keep reminding my wife of this one.

Gene Nash

on Oct 13, 2005

My laptop is 'out for delivery', according to the UPS website.

That means it will be here today! Yay!

I hate UPS.

Last Christmas Eve, my new CD-R drive arrived in Bullhead at 3 A.M. I'd spent all night tracking its progress cross country. By 7 A.M. it was on a truck, tooling around the city.

I waited, looking expectantly out the window. And waited. And waited. 8 P.M. Christmas Eve, in total darkness, I began to give up hope.

2 Days later, the UPS site changed the status of my package to undeliverable. The next week I had to drive off down some dusty, unpaved road to a beat up single-wide trailer that serves as UPS central around here, strains of "Dueling Banjos" wafting on the breeze, and pick it up myself before they sent it back.

The dumb biatch of a substitute driver claimed my address didn't exist, even though they had delivered a package to my neighbor the previous day.

I hate them. I hate them with a passion. What can brown do for you? Remind you of shit -- that's what.

(Maybe I should go blog this out....)

FREEDOM! SCHWEET GEEKY FREEDOM!!!!!

I'm not a geek. I'm a techno-nerd.

Dr Guy

on Oct 13, 2005

The UPS driver here has gotten on a first name basis w/ me and my wife (both). He's Melvin.

He'll wave when we pass each other on the road. Even in other neighbourhoods.

Yep! Harry.

dharmagrl

on Oct 13, 2005

Dont you just love UPS tracking?

Why yes, I do.

I found Bawls at the shopette once and got really quite excited about it. As I type this I am eating leftover pizza from yesterday and drinking a Mt Dew. seems I've been living as a geek for quite some time, I just didn't know it.

The UPS driver here has gotten on a first name basis w/ me and my wife (both). He's Melvin.

Mine knows that I've had surgery so he usualy carries the parcels into the house fo em and puts them on the kitchen table. Really nice guy.

The dumb biatch of a substitute driver claimed my address didn't exist, even though they had delivered a package to my neighbor the previous day.

Yep, the driver at Ellsworth delivered my desktop one day but didn't deliver a box from my in laws the next - because the last name was spelled slightly differently. I had to go pick up that parcel from their office...and stood in line behind someone trying to haggle the price of a shipment to Denver for half an hour. Eejit.

I'm not a geek. I'm a techno-nerd.

There's a difference?

What can brown do for you? Remind you of shit -- that's what.

I've always thought that. Ever since they started that silly ad campaign. What can brown do for me? Stink up the bathroom. Remind me of baby diapers and dog piles.

dharmagrl

on Oct 13, 2005

Congrats on coming out of the closet, oh geeky one.

Thanks! It's kind of....refreshing!

Enjoy your new machine...i love 'em, they're like a brand new, blank journal...all those creamy white pages...er, I mean unused gigs of memory...lol.

That's what I'm thinking as well. I'm going to be able to personalize this one, make it all mine...have Napoleon Dynamite and sun clock widgets, personalized icons and screensavers and all kinds of other tweaks and gadgets on it without anyone else bitching about how they don't like it. I'll also be able to spend time on it when I need to...and not have anyone else complaining that they need to get on there to check email or pay bills or whatever else.

I think that these laptops are going to make the time he's away at school go by a little faster too. He won't have to wait to get on a public computer....if there's no wifi signal where he's at he can always plug in to a phone line and use our SBC/Yahoo dial up service. IM-ing isn't great, but it's better than nothing.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 13, 2005

Cool. But now you can't go to the bathroom, or he'll leave until tommorow, since you "weren't there to sign for it." Isn't that always when they arrive? I advise carrying around a mason jar with you at all times today, just in case.

I'm not on a first name basis with my UPS guy, but he sure as hell knows who I am. I've played leapfrog with them all around the neighborhood on my evening runs. Heh heh......you should have seen the expression on his face when he asked me what the hell he was delivering that was leaking (coal dust) inside his truck and I told him it was two hundred pounds of coke.

dharmagrl

on Oct 13, 2005

But now you can't go to the bathroom, or he'll leave until tommorow, since you "weren't there to sign for it." Isn't that always when they arrive? I advise carrying around a mason jar with you at all times today, just in case.

Dave came home at lunchtime and manned my lookout post for me so's I could go take a leak. The UPS man is usually around mid-afternoon....as in anytime around now, and if I DO miss him I'm prepared to jump in the truck and chase him down.

As long as he comes before 1600 I should be good...I have to pick up my daughter from Spanish Club this evening. Even if he hasn't got here yet, I can leave my 11 year old here with a note explaining that it's okay for him to sign for the package.

Dr Guy

on Oct 13, 2005

Damn! I was hoping for a story on you using the mason jar.

Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:

Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums.
Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
It's simple, and FREE!