{"id":3432,"date":"2004-07-29T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:31:12","slug":"t-minus-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/07\/29\/t-minus-1\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Minus 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/applebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; My stupid Troubled Loner site was down again last night. I complained to my host but was basically told &#8216;it&#8217;s just one of those things&#8217;. Since my Apple e-mail is forwarded through that site, I grew paranoid that any e-mails about my G5 might be getting bounced. In a panic, I tried to change my Apple account&#8217;s e-mail address\u2026but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how. I can change my ID name and password and billing information, but I couldn&#8217;t find a way to change my e-mail address. I changed my subscriptions for Apple news and iTMS news so maybe that&#8217;s good enough.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Meanwhile, there&#8217;s still no word. Still no change on my Order Status page.  Still no change on my credit card&#8217;s account activity page.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Looks like today is nothing more than the day to get through to get to tomorrow. &nbsp; <b>[3:15 PM]<\/b><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update<\/b>: Fuck.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I posted the above entry too soon. At around twenty after three, the guys on the Mac Rumors thread were starting to see their order status change. Mine stayed, but when I checked again at three:thirty it had changed too.<div style = \"margin:10px; padding:15px; border: 1px solid #000;\"><tt>2.5DPG5 CTO<br>Open Est. Ship<br>08\/20\/2004<\/tt><\/div>&nbsp; &nbsp; Looks like I&#8217;m stuck working on my PowerBook for another month. Looks like I might as well stop this countdown too.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Damn it.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; (I also figured out how to change my Apple default e-mail address. At the &#8220;My Info&#8221; page of the Support section.  Not like it matters anymore though.) &nbsp; <b>[3:36 PM]<\/b><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update<\/b>: Okay.  Get this.  Now <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=79590&#038;page=26&#038;pp=25\">people on the Mac Rumors site<\/a> are saying their shipping date has reverted <i>back<\/i> to &#8220;07\/30\/04&#8221;. So I check my Order Status page and <i>my<\/i> shipping date has reverted back to &#8220;07\/30\/04&#8221; <i>too<\/i>!  WTF??!! Even more puzzling, or troubling, the date bounced between &#8220;08\/20\/04&#8221; and &#8220;07\/30\/04&#8221; as I refreshed the page!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Seriously, <b><i>WTF<\/i><\/b>???!!!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; My stupid Troubled Loner site was down again last night. I complained to my host but was basically told &#8216;it&#8217;s just one of those things&#8217;. Since my Apple e-mail is forwarded through that site, I grew paranoid that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/07\/29\/t-minus-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-new-computer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}