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#99,442
Gaolee said:
Nope. It's just gone. Oh, well.
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less than a week ago I had a Fedex dude (in training) deliver something to me that belonged to the house 10 numbers up the street. Nice expensive electric Porsche go kart for ages 5 and down. I could have kept it had I chosen to. Next day, when they came around again I returned it to the relief of the trainee. Happens all the time..
 
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Gaolee said:
I just looked it up. The post office says the pedal was delivered on December 7. I never saw it, so I assume it was mis-delivered or stolen. That kind of thing has been happening lately. It's an expensive mistake or theft. Oh, well. I still have the fDeck, which works fine, but I like the idea of a low pass as well to tame fret click from my less than stellar technique. If it never turns up, I guess I'll save up and try again in a few months.
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That sucks. Sorry, sir. This is why I pay extra for signature on delivery on anything very expensive or hard to replace.
 
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Gaolee said:
I just looked it up. The post office says the pedal was delivered on December 7. I never saw it, so I assume it was mis-delivered or stolen. That kind of thing has been happening lately. It's an expensive mistake or theft. Oh, well. I still have the fDeck, which works fine, but I like the idea of a low pass as well to tame fret click from my less than stellar technique. If it never turns up, I guess I'll save up and try again in a few months.
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You need this...

Hilarious! Watch the entire video, entertaining and educational at the same time.
 
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#99,453
Bassmaticmatt said:
Question for the birdmen and bird women. What is your preferred string choice?
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Now there's a can of worms!

I have Bass Burners on the '15. So far so good, although they are not aging as well as I would have liked. Rotosound tapes on the '91 with Chinabuckers. It's a great combination with enough zing and a whole lot of thump. Black Beauties on the '01. They are holding up well and it's got some kind of pixie dust on it that makes it just a little better than everything else in all ways. I don't know how that works, but there you have it. I have been happy with Cobalt Flats in the past and wouldn't mind putting those on a 'Bird again in the future. The fretless 'Bird might have those on it, but I don't remember. They have been on there a while and are holding up well, whatever they are. The other possibility is that they are Chromes. I'm pretty sure they are Cobalt Flats, though. The bolt-on has Low Riders, and those work well on it. Right now, the P-Bird has the red version of Black Beauties on it. They may be stainless instead of nickel under the coating. We had that discussion and now I don't remember.

There have been endless other experiments with strings, and they work for some of us and not for others. We don't ever seem to get tired of talking about options for strings.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
That sucks. Sorry, sir. This is why I pay extra for signature on delivery on anything very expensive or hard to replace.
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Last week I had a wine shipment worth over $1000 scheduled for delivery to my house. In CA you have to be over 21, have a photo ID and sign for the package because of the alcohol. I waited all day at home on the scheduled delivery day. Late in the evening the package still hadn't come, so I checked the tracking status to see if it had been rescheduled. Nope, according to the tracker it had been delivered at 2:00 in the afternoon to my address and I signed for it. Interesting. I checked the on line copy of the signature and it wasn't even close to mine, they didn't even make an attempt to forge my signature, just some stupid curly cue one letter shape.

I immediately called the shipping company and told them what happened. They said they would have to talk to their delivery person to get his story on what happened. Three days go by and several emails sent to me from increasingly higher ups in the shipping company all trying to get to the bottom of it. In the meantime my neighbor from across the street knocks on my door and says she has a shipment of wine somebody delivered to her house that she signed for not knowing it wasn't hers. It was sitting under their Christmas tree for the last couple of days until somebody in the family noticed it wasn't their name on the box.

All is good now, I have my wine in time for the holidays. I called the shipper back and told them what happened, they apologized profusely and sent a currier over to get a copy of my signature for their files. They claim in the future they will not release my wine shipments at the door unless the signature matches the one they have on file along with the signature on the photo ID.

I guess the down side is I now have an electronic signature floating around out there on somebody else's computer system. Hey, what could go wrong with that.o_O
 
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Gaolee said:
A completely separate issue - how long does it usually take Broughton to ship a pedal, and how long does it take for it to show up after they ship it? The high/low pass never arrived.
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JJR58 said:
Canadian post has been a problem for Broughton, so shipments are backed up. That's the last i know. A lot of people are waiting for orders.
But it's something out of his control.
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Canada post has been on strike, so add that to the usual incompetence...
 
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Gaolee said:
Good to know. I know it was going by Canadian post, but I figured it was plenty of time by now. A couple other things have disappeared lately, which is unusual for the post office in my experience. Being patient sounds like a plan.
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Is there a tracking number? That is usually the best way to know if the package is moving. USPS and Canadapost have good data exchange so you can track through either website.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Last week I had a wine shipment worth over $1000 scheduled for delivery to my house. In CA you have to be over 21, have a photo ID and sign for the package because of the alcohol. I waited all day at home on the scheduled delivery day. Late in the evening the package still hadn't come, so I checked the tracking status to see if it had been rescheduled. Nope, according to the tracker it had been delivered at 2:00 in the afternoon to my address and I signed for it. Interesting. I checked the on line copy of the signature and it wasn't even close to mine, they didn't even make an attempt to forge my signature, just some stupid curly cue one letter shape.

I immediately called the shipping company and told them what happened. They said they would have to talk to their delivery person to get his story on what happened. Three days go by and several emails sent to me from increasingly higher ups in the shipping company all trying to get to the bottom of it. In the meantime my neighbor from across the street knocks on my door and says she has a shipment of wine somebody delivered to her house that she signed for not knowing it wasn't hers. It was sitting under their Christmas tree for the last couple of days until somebody in the family noticed it wasn't their name on the box.

All is good now, I have my wine in time for the holidays. I called the shipper back and told them what happened, they apologized profusely and sent a currier over to get a copy of my signature for their files. They claim in the future they will not release my wine shipments at the door unless the signature matches the one they have on file along with the signature on the photo ID.

I guess the down side is I now have an electronic signature floating around out there on somebody else's computer system. Hey, what could go wrong with that.o_O
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This one i can "like".
 
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JJR58 said:
What's all this about a wind storm in Seattle?
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TBird1958 said:
It's been a windy week, last Friday we had a storm move through that knocked out power around the western half of the state, especially the Olympic Peninsula - Not a hurricane, no comparison to that. Tuesday saw an extremely rare tornado touch down in Port Orchard, (west of Seattle across Puget Sound) causing a fair bit of damage locally. Yesterday (12/20) another storm moved through, mainly north of Seattle again with widespread outages due to trees and power lines being knocked down from winds.
I've been fortunate, no loss of electricity at Cas Veronica.
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Mt. Baker saw a gust of 117 mph on the 20th. We had sustained winds over 42 mph where I'm staying up on the Islands yesterday, and NOAA was reporting winds of 62 knots (72 mph) farther down sound and in the straits. We had lots of power blips, but never completely lost power.

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