I have a friend at Fedex ;-)
2011/06/10So there I was yesterday, placing an order with Digikey for some spacers, LEDs, pins, etc. It’s 4:50pm on Thursday, and the parts aren’t exactly time-critical, but I go with the company-standard Fedex Economy (2-day), expecting them on Monday or so.
Then a couple minutes ago (1:25pm Friday) through my headphones I hear somebody shouting outside, competing with the lawn equipment grinding away nearby. Headphones come off, and it sounds like my name…. Huh? Then I recognize the local Fedex driver’s voice and run downstairs, apparently I missed the doorbell (gotta find a solution for that).
He hands me a Digikey box, and I’m thinking “was there another order before this I forgot about???”. He points to the “Monday” on the box and says he’s just “getting a jump on things”. Out comes the leatherman, and out come the parts I ordered 22 hours and 25 minutes ago….. These early deliveries are becoming a common event with this driver, and I’m definitely not complaining <g>
Making it even more amazing, one of the parts I ordered was a replacement for some parts Digikey mis-picked for the big assembly order. I got a call from them around 5pm yesterday and he said he’d try to make sure the confusion with the parts was dealt with before the order shipped out. I only got the shipment notification from them at 10:51 this morning.
Hi,
I read your post here:
http://marjandeveloperelectro.blogspot.com/2008/06/tis-clock-pro-nearly-useless.html
and I would like to know if you may share with me your C routines and spreadsheet for the CDCE913. I want to do some similar and I hope to save some time with yours ;-)
Thanks,
Alex
I’ll see if I can get something out shortly, even just the alpha version of the spreadsheet for now. I found that there’s something wrong with my calculation code, so I’ll have to revisit it and figure out what’s up before there’s any point in releasing that. Hopefully I can find some time shortly.
Hi again,
anu progress with your spreasheet?
Thanks,
Alex