Whew – what a wild few days. the books finally arrived on Thursday. It was the hottest day of the year here in Central Oregon. Well over 100°.
The trucking company gave me a window that they were delivering in. That window was from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A friend of mine was familiar with LTL “less than truckload” shipping laughed when I called him and told him the window. He said from my experience it will arrive either at 10 a.m. or 3:00 p.m.
He was right!
Where I live is up a narrow dirt road are there was no way they would be able to deliver to my house. Because of that I have them delivered to the house of my co-author and editor, Jenifer Hood.
When they finally arrived it was in a full-length semi-truck trailer. At first they thought they were going to have to leave the palette in the street but it turned out there actually was room for them to back the trailer up Jennifer’s driveway.
I was actually surprised at how small the palette was. 3000 books only took up about 4′ x 4′ x 4′.
After I signed a bill of waiting we ripped through the plastic like anxious little children. opened the box and there was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in my life. My book in print.
So if the book arrived Thursday why has it taken until Sunday or be post this exciting news to my blog? Well the nature of business being what it is life created at a little setback for me after the books arrived.
With everybody running their air conditioners like crazy around here turns out we had a big powers surge. Unfortunately that power surge fried the motherboard on the computer that I primarily use. I do use surge protectors and stuff but unfortunately in this case they didn’t help.
The timing couldn’t have been crazier. The website is still a little bit unfinished. I still need to get the bonus material and audios posted up. The book will start shipping on Monday. And my fancy pants Gateway desktop decides that it’s just got off work for good.
I called my tech Mark Hasting (who owns PCHell.com) this morning and we went through the usual procedures but in this case the motherboard is completely fried. It’s in such bad shape that you can’t even get the bios to appear. The bios controller can’t find any devices to boot from at all, even though the hard drive and CD seem to be working.
I’m hoping I’ll be able to get the data off the hard drive primarily for bookkeeping entries that are in there. Luckily most of my work is backed up in several locations. Also lucky that I have a backup computer I can switch it for a while.
For those of you who are waiting for the book they are going to start shipping on Monday and I really appreciate the patience of those of you pre ordered and have been anxiously waiting.
Time for me to get back to shuttling computers and data around.
Joy
Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor
