Late last week I determined that I didn't want to listen to headphones on the way to Hailey and/or Boise. Not only do they impede my hearing, but the truth is that even on full blast I can barely hear it (oh, and I think it's illegal to boot). Having no music makes a drive take at least twice as long, so it was worth it to have the package overnighted and to include the difference in the considered expenses of the trip.

So I went online and found the model I was looking for (more on that in a minute). Unfortunately, the first couple of places that I ordered it required that the shipping and billing address be the same. The problem being that I'm not home during the day (and do not want it left at my doorstep). If I sent it to Eel's, someone would be more likely to be there and I could get it.

So I went to the first vender that did not require identical shipping and billing addresses. I wasn't off the site five minutes before they gave me a call saying that they needed the addresses to be identical. I asked why they had two seperate places to enter the addresses and they said that they just changed their policy. Can I cancel the order? For a fee.

But it all worked out in the end. I got it on the second day after they gave me a chance to write down that I wanted them to leave it at the office.

I decided to take a chance and order the same kind of player that I had in hopes that I could just pop the faceplate on my old player. If I had to install this thing myself I figured that could be problematic. Unfortunately, my instruction manual had two models on it and I wasn't sure which one was right. The only difference between the faceplate was where the Sirius logo was. So I closed my eyes and imagined the old faceplate for a logo that I'd actually thought that of a competing company, took a chance and ordered the one that seemed more righter.

The gambit paid off. I plugged the faceplate in and I'm good to go.

Woohoo!