Oh Happy Day! Our air shipment arrived last week and was a welcome sight. Hard to believe that little box contained 500 pounds of stuff (though technically, it was about 420 pounds because they count the weight of the container).Our box came with tech--the computer, the printer, some transformers, region free blu-ray player, and the Wii--as well as Twisted Swister's and AAB's little stereo units, some shelving (can't have too much storage space), Swisker's scratching post, and a few other miscellaneous things.
All the tech is now basically up and running, including Netflix and Hulu+! That in itself was a bit of a project, but it's been nice.
Some things are running on transformers. That's ok until one goes, which happened to C Wlast night. Now that was exciting! It seemed to be an older model (we'd gotten from a friend). CW was trying to plug in AAB's stereo for bedtime music and as he's fiddling with cords, he turns around and there's some and some crackling coming from it. CW immediately unplugged it, but it sure stank up the place. TS asked if the fumes were toxic--CW explained that we weren't going to breathe them just to perform that little experiment.We understand the main shipment arrives in Germany on the 5th. After that, it should be about two weeks before it arrives in Switzerland.
The Volvo is supposed to arrive on the 13th (in Germany as well). CW received a bunch of forms today, all in German, about the process for the Volvo. Not terribly helpful. At CW's request, they at least ran the email through Google Translate, which helped. But not the forms, which they apparently expect CW to fill out and return with payment, though they didn't actually specify a total price or any bank instructions. Ah well, we suppose this will work itself out. But not without wailing and gnashing of teeth on CW's part.
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