Shipping and Logistics

I’ve got a brand-new MacBook Air on my desk after some delays in shipping from Vietnam, and overall I’m very happy with it. I sprung for the larger 15″ model, and it’s taking some time to get used to the new form factor in relation to my old 13″ model (and even my work 14″ MacBook Pro). I used it to finish up and export a video this weekend and I was happy with the smoother previews and speed. It didn’t take long to set up and install my various accounts and software suites—I don’t migrate settings, but prefer to do clean installs—and with only a few short hiccups where I couldn’t immediately lay hands on a serial number, it only took a few hours. Then I carefully wiped the drive on my old machine and cleaned it carefully with cotton swabs before packaging it up for trade-in. I added both of these to the technology list along with the Chromebook. Along with that, I dropped another, heavier package off at the post office: I was contacted on the Binder Planet about some of my spare soft…