An Adventure in Car-less-ness

Today marks day 4 sans car. It's also raining. I find most places I can get to by foot or by the motorcycle. So far, I'm not for wanting for the car, in fact I've only had one issue. I can't buy cake, it doesn't hold up well in a backpack. We'll see how this goes after 2 more days of rain.

Subversion Needs to Die

I'm sorry, it's time subversion was put out to pasture. I spent the better part of two hours recovering from the damage dealt from a subversion bug. The final solution was to give up, and recheck out the entire repository.

Frankly, subversion wouldn't even be *that* bad if not for it's issues as a resource hog, and speed. In this day in age, dead locking a machine during a sync, taking over 5 minutes to sync two dozen files, in general, being unresponsively slow just isn't acceptable for a version control system. Let's not even go on about handling of large binaries.

I don't advocate for Perforce, or Git. Both are better options. But this morning in between cursing subversion, I found myself actually saying. I'd rather have source safe, or a thumb drive. It's a quality of life thing. Give me fully functional version control, with easy to use branching, easy sandbox generation, or give me a thumb drive.

Amazon FTW

Me:According to the tracking number provided my order <redacted> is at my front door. In Las Vegas. That would be an issue seeing as how I live in California.

Reena:Hello, my name is Reena. I'll be happy to help you.

Me:Groovy, the tracking number attached is : <redacted>

UPS claims it was delivered

Reena:Clayton , do you mean to say that you din't receive the item.

Me:Well, Yes

I mean it was shipped to Las Vegas apparently

Shipping Information

To: NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV, US

Directly from the UPS tracking site

Reena:May I please take the order number ?

Me:First thing I sent

(First message)

<redacted>

Reena:Oh, yes my apologies.

Can you hold for a minute or two while I research this for you?

Me:Sure thing

Reena:Thank you, Clayton, I have checked the order and the delivery status shows that its in transit.

And shipping information is <redacted>, CALIFORNIA <redacted>

United States

Me:Despite the fact UPS' own website says delivered to Las Vegas?

Status: In transit

Location: Front door

From ya'lls

Reena:let me check with ups.

Me:UPS has a delivered on, proof of delivery

the whole nine yards

Dear Customer,

This notice serves as proof of delivery for the shipment listed below.

Tracking Number: <redacted>

Service:UPS Ground

Weight:8.00 lbs

Shipped/Billed On:04/06/2011

Delivered To: NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV, US 

Left At:Front Door

Okay, that would have been better with carriage returns <edit: i added them for the blog>

Reena:I understand your concern however the estimated delivery date is 8th April so you will need to wait.

Me:I get that, I'm saying UPS clearly says it was delivered

that blob of text up there. That's the Proof of Delivery for it.

Reena:And if you still don't get the item we will consider it as lost and then create an replacement for yoyu.

Me:http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track#

Past in the tracking number above

it shows delivered.

Reena:Yes, I have seen that but we cannot create replacement until the estimated delivery date is not passed. I am so sorry about this.

Me:/facepalm

So, since the estimated date hasnt passed, the fact it got shipped to the wrong state is irrelevant?

Reena:Clayton, there might be some confusion but please don't worry you will get the item by 8th of april and else we will refund you.