January 28, 2009
Location: Taos, New Mexico

So I'm waiting on a package from hell. Not actually from hell just a package that I'm having a hell of a hard time receiving. A month and a half ago a small but important lever broke on one of my lighter tripods. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a replacement part in Denver but finally had to call the distributor out in California. The crew out in Cali was great and had my pieces in hand and ready for delivery within moments of my call and for the low low price of 8$ plus shipping. At the time I was on my way out of Denver so I asked them to overnight it to the Taos US Post Office. The only problem was that the address I found online was incorrect and with all good intentions the shipper sent the package FedEx overnight. And so it began...

I've been waiting on the package for over a week now. Since the address was incorrect FedEx has been holding it in Santa Fe(where ironically I was on my way except to wait for the package), now here in Taos all 'General Delivery' packages go to a main sorting building before going to the main post office. In all my attempts to find the package I've been driving the people at the main post office Postal ;-) They've been sending me to the main sorting office who have been sneding me back to the main office.. and FedEx has been just trying to do their job but are dealing with conflicts between the USPS and FedEx information and delivery systems. And now finally when I've figured it all out.. the package is on a truck from Santa Fe to Taos.. I can't go get it until tomorrow because once it gets to Taos it needs to be sorted and then routed to the main office by USPS.. Lol!!! And even better the woman at the main post office informed me today that I will be charged USPS shipping on any package delivered to them by FedEx. Anyways.. maybe all this is just designed to keep me here in Taos so that I can get another interview with Brian Shields of Amigos Bravos.. or maybe there's a bigger plan I can't see.. in any case I'm trying to approach it all with laughter in my heart since sometimes it takes longer then expected for things to get where they are going.

Yesterday I bought one of those fridge magnet poetry kits.. and stuck all the words to my van.. let's just say it's an art experiment in honour of the upcoming death of my brother's famous furry blue car. I thought about plastering my van exterior with art of all kinds.. but sometimes drawing too much attention to yourself can be a bad idea. In any case this is a nice idea and perhaps people will leave me poems.

peace,
d