u/random_wonderings

I just need to vent and my cat is sleeping so she won't listen.

I frequently have clients ship me products and ask me to do some work for their marketing departments before I either send them back, or forward them on to another service provider who will do some work on them, etc., etc. FedEx both ways, always.

Tuesday afternoon (2:41pm) a client had a 5lb package picked up by Purolator (my direct client didn't know why Purolator when I asked when I replied to their 'it's on the way' email, but neither of us figured it would be a problem. lol) in Montreal to be shipped to me over night to meet a deadline for Friday.

It arrived at the Etobicoke sorting facility early Wednesday morning and sat there for almost 24 hours until 4:52am on Thursday when it arrived at a Toronto sorting facility & was "Out for delivery" at 7:38am. Cool. It's a day late, but I can still just hit that Friday deadline if I wait until the weekend to sleep.

Good fucking luck.

Not so much as walking across the street to get a coffee, I was in all day waiting for this delivery. Checked tracking countless times until, at 6:07pm it was updated to "Unable to deliver - new delivery date required" - and a notation that I'm the one who needs to arrange a new date.

I get on a live chat and am ultimately asked if I want them to attempt redelivery tomorrow or if I want them to hold for pick-up. I swear I didn't type-swear at the chatbot, but I absolutely did wake the cat up. I clarified; You mean attempt delivery. You can't REdeliver something you have not attempted to deliver. And....hold for pick-up WHERE!?!? It/they rattled on some more speaking the 'RE' tense and after asking again WHERE? was given two options, both of which are FUCKING CONVENIENCE STORES. The cat is WIDE awake now. Wait. So you CAN'T deliver it to ME, but you CAN deliver it one one of TWO THIRD-PARTY LOCATIONS?? What the actual fuck.

Jesus Christ. You're already a day late. Just bring the fucking thing tomorrow - this time actually make an effort. Fuck, at this point, call me and I'll come out and get it so you don't even have to get off your fat ass.

Anyway, deadline; not a chance. Client; pissed, but understanding. Purolator; Fucking Useless.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Over the past couple of months I've bought my first fishing kayak and have it all dialled in to the point I'll be ready for launch when the local water temp gets above the mid-40s (I'm on one of the Great Lakes, so it never truly gets 'warm').

I have a Garmin 95SV (running on an 18Ah LiFePO4 battery) and wonder the hive mind's opinion on sun shades (like Sonar Shield as an example), primarily for the ability to run lower screen brightness and ease of viewability. I'll be taking all of my mounted accessories off the boat when I store it between trips, so the sunshade will be a bit of a hassle to keep in a case of some sort with it still on the head unit.

Are they worth the price of admission or are they money well wasted?