After conducting some initial tests for the mapping project with AutoCAD 2000, I can finally get a real start on the project (and this site) now that my promised copy of AutoCAD 2005 has been delivered.

According to the label, it was shipped via FedEx Ground, but it actually arrived via airmail. While reading E-mail this morning, I heard a loud thud (bounding off the door) then a softer thud (settling on the doormat), followed ¾ second later by the sounds of a truck engine revving and its backup alert beeping, so ever briefly before it roared off, surely in excess of the local 15mph speed limit.

I’m so glad FedEx has saved the hastle of paying health and retirement benefits by outsourcing all delivery operations for its Ground and Home Delivery brands. They must have outsourced those divisions’ customer service monitors, too.