A few months ago, I posted a short update regarding my yes-dammit-it-still-hasn’t-arrived-or-even-apparently-shipped Shroud of the Avatar box, with all of its attendant feelies:

Ostensibly, according to the last Update of the Avatar from 2018, some people on the list of Phase 2 recipients have begun to receive their boxes. Mid-January was specified as when the major portion of Phase 2 shipments would be sent out. Mid-January was specified those of us who are still awaiting our physical backer rewards are bidden to watch our email accounts for a message from Stamps.com confirming that something is being shipped to us. To date, I’ve not received any such shipping notification, and obviously I haven’t received a boxed copy of Shroud of the Avatar. Part of me wonders whether I should just order one via Amazon; would it arrive before the copy I should have already received for backing Shroud of the Avatar on Kickstarter back in 2013?

All of the above remains true; Phase 2 shipments have gone out to many backers, many of whom I’ve heard from…but I have yet to receive even a notification as to the status of mine. And I continue to contemplate ordering a box from Amazon the next time I have to travel to the US for work, just to see if I get that one first. In fact, if I remember to do so, I will probably try and arrange for that; Amazon is ostensibly handling fulfillment of any such orders, and I’m a Prime member. It wouldn’t be difficult to have a box shipped to whichever hotel I end up staying at.

But, I digress.

My patience has worn thin, and so I’ve added a new widget to the site header, which is counting up the hours since I shelled out the additional international shipping fee, the one that was supposedly the barrier to my Shroud of the Avatar box shipping during Phase 1. I realize that Phase 2 didn’t begin until some months after the deadline for the international shipping fee, but that’s the date I’ve chosen.

And the counter will also serve as a canary; if you see it disappear, you’ll know that the package I’ve been awaiting — now, unfortunately, with steadily diminishing enthusiasm — since 2013 has finally arrived.