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Parts have finally been received! My camera is being repaired! This is yet more evidence that our supply chain crisis has been resolved.
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Cats, charts, and politics
All crises really are local.
Same luck as Bush / Clinton. It's been this way all along. More suppliers available. Quick and easy. Supply-chain isn't the problem. It's when your gay husband comes in and sounds glad for the dinner you made him. He got a lot done today on the job, at 64. I made him a tuna noodle casserole for dinner, which he doesn't like very much but he'll eat it. But back to the point. We need some stuff. Someone else's got it. They'll make a trade..... and on and on. Why are we sucked into this conversation?
Mark Twain proposed that a hundred years ago in one way or another. He was not wrong.
But back to the point...honestly.
Our business, and our personal needs, have not suffered much, at all, since Covid-19. I wanted to buy a 1.5 liter juice container today, but it's not available. I can wait. In our business we have had to wait up to two or three weeks longer for certain items. It compromises our ability to extract as much profit but still, even a week or two late: we're doing great! Long term, things look shitty.
Maybe on some stuff Neal
This graphic within the story from CNN is telling
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/23/business/20211023-california-ports-animation/index.html
2 year comparison to shipping traffic into LA
Oddly enough, I just got an email this morning - a cabinet insert that was not expected till May has shipped and is expected to arrive in mid-November. Maybe some trickles breaking loose. Hope this doesn't mean they arrive just as our new windows show up. I didn't expect the supply chain problems to move to our driveway!
bottlenecks, like traffic jams, just keep moving down the line...
I am old enough to remember when the Evergreen stuck in the Suez was Biden's Katrina.
good times, good times...
Better times will be a rewrite of The Dude & Walter singing the theme to "Branded", but saying Brandon instead.
We'll need a bigger drone.
I wish this was Poe's Law.
Some crane operator at the Port of Long Beach the other day offloading a container with Kevin's camera parts didn't know it, but he had become the greatest hero in American history.
Looks like Bidens efforts are working.
Let's Go Brandon.
The supply chain is NOT in good shape
From China:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/china/covid-update-intl-hnk/index.html
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Authorities in northern China are reimposing lockdowns and other emergency measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, with health officials warning of a worsening outbreak after the country recorded more than 100 cases across 11 provinces over the last week.
"Since October 17, there have been multiple scattered local outbreaks in China, and they're expanding rapidly," Mi Feng, a spokesman at the National Health Commission (NHC), said at a news conference Sunday. "There is an increasing risk that the outbreak will spread even further."
The rapid spread comes despite about 75% of China's population -- or more than a billion people -- being fully vaccinated, according to Mi.
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China is one of those countries that has a zero tolerance for CV, and the Northern Provinces are not huge export centers but the fact remains that CV is not over, and can still impact our supply chains badly.
I think you got lucky with your camera KD.
What's the chance that this isn't anything more than somebody just clicked a box in Kevin's file to make himself/his employer look more on top of things than they actually are? In other words, according to his file the part has been "received" when "received" means it's in a container on a boat that just entered US waters.