8404 Diorama Studios

When you are dependent on the timely arrival of items for your projects, shipping delays can be the source of endless frustration and aggravation. Case in point, UPS and the upgrade fiasco. Rather than rehash a boring and blood pressure raising story, suffice to say they didn’t do what they were supposed to; delivered the shipment to the post office “by mistake” and made the refund process to get the upgrade fee like a dog chasing its’ tail. Lesson learned, they’re jerks and if they need that $ 3.50 so badly that returning it is made so frustrating, then clearly they have far bigger issues in the way they treat their customers.

This is not the first issue I’ve encountered with them, I’ve always been a baseball player at heart (loved the game, too old and broken to play it any more) so with me you get the traditional 3 strikes. Unless you pull something so egregious I refuse to have anything to do with you again – I’m looking in your direction Supermart. Well, as of yesterday big brown took a big swing and a miss for strike three. Thanks for playing, take a seat; won’t be shipping with them any time soon, won’t be opting for anything to be shipped via them. Thank you, no.

For all its’ perceived faults (some deserved, some not), the postal service dropped off the shipment this morning a day later than needed or planned for. Yes, planning based on UPS delivering on its’ upgrade; had to work on another part of another project (Semper Gumby in action) so the time wasn’t completely wasted. Thankfully, in skimming the instructions for this build, it should go pretty quickly. Should being the operative term here, I’m told the build isn’t that trying, so fingers are crossed.

All that being said, let’s get down to actually building something, shall we?