Nothing for day 4, so now it's day 5. I missed the fedex dropoff, they came at 11am, as if someone would be home then. They left the door slip to sign and they'll leave it tomorrow if nobody is here. There probably will be, but you never know, so hopefully I"ll have it tomorrow.
Otherwise, nothing new. The monitor is still en route from CA, with no new tracking information, and the stuff from Buy.com has not been shipped yet, as far as I can tell. I've bought stuff from them before, and it hasn't taken so long to ship, so I'm a bit bummed. It's not a big deal really, but I would have liked to work on the system this weekend, and it is a little difficult without all the pieces :)
More if it happens
Not a whole lot new today. My packages from Newegg.com shipped. There are two packages, presumably one is the case, and one is everything else. They left CA on July 26, 12:02pm, and are currently being held in Indianapolis, IN (as of 2:04pm, so they may have moved again without the site being updated). The delivery estimate for both is July 29, before 4:30pm. The monitor is slowly moving along, but it appears to be going by mule, as it is due to arrive August 2nd. It has left CA, but I don't know where it is now.
The items from Buy.com don't appear to have left the warehouse yet. So far things are progressing about as expected: I'll be waiting for the sound card. Oh well, I'll have most of it this weekend.
I spent a little time earlier today uninstalling software from my current computer that I don't use anymore, and making a list of what I do use so that I know what I have to do to setup the new machine when I have it built. There's a fair amount of software to install, but it could be worse. I certainly don't have to do it all in one sitting, there are only a few things that I consider manditory.
Until tomorrow...
Today I went to CompUSA very briefly, and got the video card. We didn't waste any time in the store, just went to the case, said we wanted it, paid, and got out. There's no reason to stay in there longer than necessary. I worked there years ago, and know first hand that most of the people that work there are not especially helpful. So anyway, I've got my first item sitting around waiting for the rest to arrive.
The only other update is that the monitor has shipped, so that should be here fairly soon. So that's a pretty good day for CompUSA, surprisingly enough. Both the other sites I ordered from are still processing at the warehouse. Newegg.com says that it is sealed and ready to ship already, so hopefully that'll go out tomorrow and be here in a few days. I predicted as soon as I put in the orders that I would be sitting around waiting for Buy.com to send the sound card once everything else was here, and I think that's going to be correct. Hopefully it'll all be here this weekend though, and I can spend my days off doing assembly.
More as it occurrs...
Well, I've finally decided to put my months of browsing computer parts to use, and ordered everything needed to build my next computer. I had hoped to be able to build 2 at the same time, so that Sabrina and I could both have one, but we decided to do one now, and one later, so that I'll have mine ready to go when school starts up again in september.
I'm planning to document everything as I go, so here's what I've done on 7/25/2004.
I bought parts from three sites, depending on what was the best deal at the time.
I also have one more purchase to make at CompUSA, but I have to wait until I can actually to the store, and use the gift card I got from CitiBank with my rewards points.
As stuff arrives in the mail, or I buy it, I will make updates and take pictures. It's been a while since I assembled an entire computer, but hopefully it will go relatively smoothly.