The ents go marching one by one, baroom baroom
The ents go marching one by one, baroom baroom
The ents go marching one by one
Saruman went and did something dumb
Now they all come marching out
Of the wood
To destroy Isengard
The ents go marching two by two, baroom baroom
The ents go marching two by two, baroom baroom
The ents go marching two by two
The willow one scrapes some orc off his shoe
And they all go marching out
Of the wood
To destroy Isengard
The ents go marching three by three, baroom baroom
The ents go marching three by three, baroom baroom
The ents go marching three by three
Fangorn stops to wake up a tree
As they all go marching out
Of the wood
To destroy Isengard
The ents go marching four by four, baroom baroom
The ents go marching four by four, baroom baroom
The ents go marching four by four
It's been long since their last war
But they all go marching out
Of the wood
To destroy Isengard
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One of my friends mentioned that he always thinks of the ant marching song during that part of the movie, so this is what I came up with.
Just thought I should post a note somewhere, anywhere, about my recent experience with NIS America's customer service. They done good, and I want to document it.
I pre-ordered Ar Tonelico from the NISA online store so I would get the artbook and OST. The game shipped out using UPS on Feb. 2nd.
So...it's now Feb. 9th, and I don't have my game. I check the UPS tracking page and there's no information after Feb. 3rd, yet it does tell me "This package is in transit and on time" with a scheduled delivery date of the 9th. I should have it by the end of the day, right?
Not at all! At 6 PM it still said the same thing. I didn't check it on the 10th, but on the 11th, I checked it that night. Status was something like "retrieving billing information" or some such. Bit annoyed, so I send NISA an email.
"Do you have any idea what's going on with my order? On Friday, the UPS tracking page said Ar Tonelico was on time to be delivered that day, but I didn't recieve it. It's been over a week since it was supposed to have been shipped, it should've gotten here by now."
In the morning on the 12th, I've got a response back from them.
"Thank you very much for taking your time to contact us, NIS America, Inc.
We are very sorry to hear that you have not received your order yet.
We contacted UPS to trace your packege, and found out that they have lost tracking after 2/3…
We have request to investigate on the package and it may take up to 1-8 days to complete.
Meantime, I have arranged an over night delivery to send you a replacement."
They used FedEx this time.
The game was waiting for me when I got home today.
So, I'm happy for Rich that his blogging tools are up, working, and being used by people. That said, I don't like blogs.
I humbly submit the following quote from a Dilbert Newsletter:
People who are trying to decide whether to create a blog or not go through a thought process much like this:
1. The world sure needs more of ME.
2. Maybe I'll shout more often so that people nearby can experience the joy of knowing my thoughts.
3. No, wait, shouting looks too crazy.
4. I know - I'll write down my daily thoughts and badger people to read them.
5. If only there was a description for this process that doesn't involve the words egomaniac or unnecessary.
6. What? It's called a blog? I'm there!
The blogger's philosophy goes something like this:
Everything that I think about is more fascinating than the crap in your head.
The beauty of blogging, as compared to writing a book, is that no editor will be interfering with my random spelling and grammar, my complete disregard for the facts, and my wandering sentences that seem to go on and on and never end so that you feel like you need to take a breath and clear your head before you can even consider making it to the end of the sentence that probably didn't need to be written anyhoo.
