Well, another delay. Frustrating. "The delivery date will be provided as soon as possible." There is no bad weather here today. Sigh. My gut told me something was up. Tomorrow is the worst day for me to be here waiting for a delivery. Sigh.

Our UPS driver left a package on a pile of ice burgs (our snow has turned into frozen chunks of ice) at the end of our drive.  Only saw it this morning and didn’t get a notification it had been delivered.  Not sure how long it had been sitting out there but damn, this is a bad time to get stuff delivered.

Thats crazy torture. Driver probably took the 845 tube over to his homies house thinking he scored a new bong.
I'd be out driving around looking for the UPS truck. They must be stopping downtown at local businesses ?

Well, once again a re-delivery notice, the packages are now separated with due to arrive in the 1:00 to 5:00 zone and another in the 5:00 to 7:00 zone. One package arriving doesn't help me, I need both. . . . We'll see. My confidence is not high.

I've had bad luck doing that here. The place they say it would be is 45 minutes away. The one time I did do that years ago when I got there . . . it wasn't there. It had not been held, and was delivered two days later I'm not inclined to repeat that. I've wasted a lot of time talking to these people on the phone as well, to no good outcome, in the past. UPS sucks imo. I would have chosen to have this delivered by USPS, which has delivered mail here every day this month, if I had been able to choose, but I was not given the chance.

IF the packages don't arrive today I'll be forced to do that, contact them and see what the next step is. We'll see. I'm frustrated mainly because I'm excited for the product, but my life goes on.

Roads in the area here are very well cleared, have been day after day during this storm, and UPS drivers have no problem just parking on the road and putting their flashers on (more's the pity)--they don't pull into driveways. I don't know what the issue is other than I think they are dealing with a backlog and our neighborhood is always the last area they deliver to before returning to the hub so if they get behind we are sacrificed. Perhaps they are short drivers from the weather or perhaps yesterday from the nationwide "boycott." From the start I waived signature necessity for these packages so that is not a contributing factor.

Yeah! Glad you (finally) got it Lon. Looking forward to your adventures.

I was equally surprised by the size and the brightness and the heat of those 10V triodes. You only have one of them, you can imagine the scene with two.