A little long

[fluter]

Scottishrebel, you may appreciate this. Or maybe it'll make you feel better.

From the FedEx tracker: Jul 4, 2007
12:17 AM At local FedEx facility COLUMBIA, SC
4:22 AM On FedEx vehicle for delivery COLUMBIA, SC

It's ON THE TRUCK, where it will sit until tomorrow!

I have a US St. Andrews en route from SK too, should be here Thursday. It just popped back onto the tracking system in Charlotte tonight....

[mkmound]

http://www.district-tartans.com/kazakhstan.htm

Nice tartan.

"This artifact tartan dates to 2000 BC."

[pipesndrumsnun]

I must say, I love the Kazakhstan tartan! It would also be a great tartan for University of Michigan fans!!
Do you have roots in Kazakhstan?

[Kid Cossack]

Although ethnically Russian, my wife was born in Kazakhstan, and I worked there for several years in the late 1990s. Although it's listed as a Kazakhstani tartan, I regard it more properly as a "Central Asian" tartan, as the national boundaries in the area are very much a 20th century creation.

The gold and blue are heavily used colors throughout Central Asia, although frequently the blue is a lighter color. (Hmm, get it in "weathered colors"?)

Kazakhstan itself is about three times the size of Texas, has a population of about fifteen million, and is apparently the sole country on the earth that has every element from the periodic table.

It feels a lot like the American West, both in terms of geography and history. The Russian overlay is a very recent thing, Almaty was founded as a fort called Vernii ("Faithful") in 1842 . . . so it's younger than my home town of Houston.

From reading books by and about Roy Chapman Andrews, I know that in the teens and 20s of the last century a school of thought regarded Central Asia as the heartland of the world, and to this day it remains a tremendously vital and important region. (Kazakhstan's neighbors, for example, include China, Iran and Russia.)

I don't know if it's the heartland of the world . . . but it's a place that's near and dear to my own heart, yes it is.

[Warhoover]

Scottishrebel, you may appreciate this. Or maybe it'll make you feel better.

From the FedEx tracker: Jul 4, 2007
12:17 AM At local FedEx facility COLUMBIA, SC
4:22 AM On FedEx vehicle for delivery COLUMBIA, SC

It's ON THE TRUCK, where it will sit until tomorrow!

Oh that is the ultimate in frustration. I have experienced that many times and nothing seems to help with the anticipation!!

[Perldog007]

http://www.district-tartans.com/kazakhstan.htm

Very Sharp. That will make a fine set of garments for the family and it looks like it will be a looooooong wait. Kind of makes ScottishRebel's sportkilt jones seem less harsh just contemplating it. Speaking of jonesing, Jerry V. made me wait like 81 hours for my leatherneck box pleater just because it was a weekend and he didn't feel like driving to the beach.

bastage

I feel ScottishRebel's pain. I am a former perl programmer and I just can't understand why the hardware
guys can't figure out a way to zap the merch to the customer as fast as us coders zap the money to the vendor. Lazy
rascals I reckon.

[Bob C]

Or, worse, for your kilt maker's cloth order to be woven, and shipped, and received, so you can be placed in line waiting for your kilt maker to hand sew it.

Exactly. I ordered my tank at the end of April, a few years back. The tartan had to be woven in Scotland before my kiltmaker could even think of sewing it. Between that and her workload, I barely had my kilt in time for my wedding in September.

A week or so doesn't seem so bad.

[Riverkilt]

Ordering more kilts, or kilt accessories, is the only proven cure for the kilt jones.

The more you order, the more you have coming in from week to week and the less the jones.

It works. Give it a try if your plastic can stand it...

Ron

[Scottishrebel]

FedEx is usually right on the money in the delivery date they quote to you---so next Tuesday night, we want pictures! Is this your black one on the way?

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i cant get pics on tuesday because i will be at grandfather Mountain for the games i will get them up on the next tuesday

[mbhandy]

And I Thought my Buchanan was LOUD:





MrBill