Anticipation always seems more exciting — as exciting as waiting can be — than actually receiving something. This being said; it seems all I do these days is wait. It’s running on 9 months for my bike and 2 months for my PC upgrade. Unfortunately in both cases there is nothing much I can do about it as I’m relying on other people.

In my bikes case, I have to rely on other people to fix it since I have neither the tools nor the expertise to do it myself. Even so, given the tools I’m sure I could have done a better job. One thing’s for sure though, it would not have taken me 9 months (this is assuming that my bike gets fixed in the next 2 weeks, otherwise I could easily see it running in 10 months or even a year).

Just a quick update: my right fork has a 0.2-micron kink in it. Rad. It might have been 2 micron actually, but I can’t remember. Either way it’s small, so I don’t know how that should affect my oil seals, but this is the reason given for my constantly leaking forks. This bit of information was given to me 2 weeks ago and I haven’t heard a word since.

In my PC’s case, I’ve had to rely on quite a few people who essentially wasted my time. I was initially getting my PSU and graphics card from the states through someone (if you’re reading this, you know who you are). Both the items were high demand; but this point clearly escaped him as I went through the process of telling him what to order and when at least 5 times. That wasted a month or so and needless to say, I went elsewhere. Keep in mind that they were both high-ticket items and he would have been making quite a chunk of profit for not doing much at all.

After having another order delayed for my 7900gt from the states, I eventually just bought one locally on Friday. The card was only added to the dealer’s pricelist on Thursday, so I guess waiting worked out for me in the end. It’s still more expensive and not as good as the one that I was getting from the states, but at least it only took me a few hours to organise and collect — even though I was again relying on someone else partly; at least he was willing to help, unlike some others.

Another PC delay was my PSU. This was very odd though and this is why: Zalman ZM460. The dent is rather curious; only the rear grill is pressed inwards, and not the edge where it meets. There is no other damage to the PSU, not even a scratch where it’s dented. Additionally there was no damage to the box or its contents, and when packaged, the grill lies flush with the one side of the box, so there’s no chance of having the contents cause the dent. Besides, that grill is steel… it’s going to require quite a significant amount of force to dent it like that. Which leads me to believe that it was a manufacturing defect, or it was dented prior to packaging. It was sent back to the dealer (Frontosa) who claimed that it was damaged during shipping. There was no scarring on the box, so I’m pretty sure this is just a way to shift blame, as dealers are wont to do these days. Anyways, a few emails and just over a week later I had a brand new replacement at no extra cost to myself; this included having the dented one overnighted back to them and the new one overnigthed to me. So I guess some people do still believe in service — thanks to Sybaritic for this — their prices are decent (as I’ve mentioned before) and in my experience the service is good.
Now I’m waiting for the motherboard… that’s another long story; in summary it’s been delayed by 2 weeks so far. Let’s see how long this one lasts. At least I’ll be saving somewhere in the region of R300 by doing this though so at least it’s still worth it.

Lastly, I’m waiting for my car; though this one is entirely my fault :].