Holy #### am I angry right now, even if it is my fault.
I ordered a WDTV Live, HDMI cable, wireless adapter for the WD box and another TB external HD from Dell online (see above). I get a notice that it's shipped with a ref #. Cool. I'm kind of excited to get everything set up and see if it's enough for me to dump my cable. Not

eedance: excited, but nonetheless. I get to the Purolator depot that's two blocks away from my condo, because of course, they try to deliver while I'm inconveniently at work. No biggie. First thing I think is "That's a rather small box for all that electronics." Well it was, because they delivered the very important wireless adapter first. The next day I get a call with a new tracking number.
I go in.
The HDMI cable has arrived.
I receive no further calls, but since it was around the weekend and during the one week where everybody and I mean everybody in this city is drinking their faces off I think no more of it until the next Monday. Doing nothing but getting obliterated and then spending the rest of the next day trying to stop my brain from leaking out my ear until I can start drinking again consumes a few days.
Finally about Wednesday, neurons start firing again and I think that it's very odd the other pieces (the functional ones for those that are keeping track) haven't arrived. Call Purolator... not particularly helpful, but the girl I talked to sounded Homerific, so I'm still in a good mood. Then Dell... hold... transfered to India where someone who's trying very hard to have a Midwest accent, but succeeding as well as Woz does in sounding confident and charismatic takes my order number... and then transfers me back to Canada.
They give me the tracking number for the last shipment. Back to Purolator's website, to find out that it had been
shipped back to ####### Dell that morning. I blink a few times and call Dell back. This time at least I have a direct line. The CSR says that she can have the new shipment out to me in 3 to 5 business days. Ok fine.
In 3 days I get a call that my shipment is in. I get the WDTV Live
Now, having learned an important lesson worthy of Diff'rent Strokes, I'm going to be more proactive and I get the tracking number for the hard drive, only a little miffed that it's taken 4 shipments to get everything.
Today I leave work early for lunch. It's a nice day, a 20 minute walk either way and I want to get this hard drive and put it behind me. Stopping by the Purolator storefront, I think how familiar this has become but how we're in the home stretch now. I get the box and think "Awfully light for an external hard drive..." but it's a couple of blocks from my condo, so whatever. I get home, open up the shipping box... AND IT'S A GOD DAMN WIRELESS ADAPTER!!
I don't even have words for how much I loathe Dell.