Power to the People

Maybe you read about my experience with Half.com last week. Here's another adventure in online buying and shipping:

I thought it was a little whack that the QSC PLX 3002 we ordered on December 30th hadn't showed by January 14th. So, like the dedicated American I'm trying to be, I gave our good buddy Jeff at Dynamic Audio a call. I left a message, and sent him an email. After a couple days I tried again. A couple days after that, he called me to apologize.

Apparently he was on tour doing sound for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I was like...woah, in Trans-Siberia, huh? Since they probably don't have phones or email all the way over there, and even if they did, I don't know how you're gunna hear them over the din of the orchestra and the patter of the wheels across the train tracks...I forgave him.

Another couple days later, he emailed me to let me know QSC had shipped my amp to one of his job sites in Florida. I was like:

"...So what you're telling me is that Jeb Bush and a bunch of senior citizens are over there driving battery powered golf carts in circles around my amp???"

I didn't know what kind of effect that could have on the equipment, but it just didn't sound safe to me. So, like the dedicated American he's trying to be, Jeff had QSC send me a new one and it finally came around the 25th. Did I mention Jeff is a Texan?

Now...I'm thinking we should share a breif moment of silence. As soon as I get this thing hooked up, it'll be a good long time until we'll hear another. Yup, that's 3000 watts of power to the people...but we'll try to keep it down for you folks over in Florida. It's getting late, and you've got a big day ahead of ya.