good and bad news

That's right, I've got some good and some really bad news. I'll start with the good:
I've got my mangas. It turns out they were delivered around the corner: same number, wrong street. I'm an honest lad, so I cancelled the replacement order. However: now I've lost my Archonia points... (not that it's such a big deal, but still)

As for the bad news: my Dell laptop has been delayed... again! And not just by a week, it's now scheduled to arrive October 9th! That's more than two months after I ordered it!!!
I feel like crying in a dark corner of my room...
so if you need me, that's where I'll be.

One week later, my order is still missing. Archonia was pretty quick to reply to my mail, saying that they had started an investigation with DPD. But after a week (and a lot of mailing back and forth) they still haven't found it. I've talked to the guy who delivered my order, but he couldn't remember at all where he delivered it.
Today I finally got a mail that said Archonia was also sick of waiting. They made a replacement order, but... some items are (once again) out of stock. Last time it took 3 weeks, normally it should only take 2. Two weeks would mean September 4th, a day after my laptop is supposed to arrive. No, that ain't true... you see, I've been mailing Dell as well: the laptop is now delayed some more. New estimated date is September 10th.
So yeah, I was expecting my mangas mid-august, and my laptop end-august. It'll now turn out to be halfway September for both. -sigh-
Thank The Force university doesn't start till September 27th....
Oh yeah, that's right, I'm officially a university student now *applause*. I'll be studying Informatics at the Universtity of Gent. Let's hope that works out better than my online shopping...

It's mobile, and yes it can run linux (and Doom)

I just noticed I never posted about a very important matter:
I bought a laptop :P

Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (Santa Rosa!!!) (2,2 Ghz, 800 Mhz, 4MB L2-cache)
2.048 MB 667 Mhz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
nVidia Ge Force Go 8600M GT (256MB DDR2 dedicated)
160 GB SATA (5.400 rpm)
Intel Pro wireless 3945
15.4" WSXGA+
Bluetooth 2.0

It's a Dell. A lot of people seem to be negative about them, I never really got why. They let me build my own laptop, they're not very expensive, THEY SUPPORT LINUX, and they make laptops with fancy colors :P (I built mine in Ruby Red).

I ended up buying this one after a long study I made of different brands/models and their capability of running Linux. I found quite a few nice ones, but most of the time I would find articles such as 'X and Y on this laptop don't work in Linux'. The only laptops that seemed to work most of the time were Dells. So there you have it, I configured a Dell Inspiron 1520 - at first I kept it cheap, but in the end I wanted more performance, so it ended up being €1760, whoops :P. I got a €50 discount and free shipping though. Nice.

But (there's always a but), it's been 'in preproduction' ever since August 1. The estimated shipping date is September 3 :(
That's the back-to-school period for ya.

It's been three weeks now since I ordered some mangas from Archonia (they didn't have them in stock for two weeks). I've been waiting for them to arive since Friday, I just went to have a look at the online tracking system of DPD (the shipping company). Apparently my package arrived yesterday at 12.50h, and was signed by ME!
Great, my package is lost ;-;

I don't know how to contact DPD, so I'll send a mail to Archonia. I hope they find it...