Dead Success - Miracle Edition

Too much of everything is just enough... One more thing I just got to say, I need a miracle every day.

Wow. That was painful. I don't know that it's ever taken me 40 minutes to get concert tickets. Honestly, after about 20 I usually give up, assuming the show has sold out. This time, thanks to my faith in the degree to which the ticketing servers were overwhelmed, I had a hunch that tickets might still be out there. So at a snail's pace, I creeped towards the promised land.

First, they assigned me seats, that was a good start. But I know well enough that one server crash or page load failure and those seats could be back in the nether. So from there, I had to plug in my info. I did it as quickly as possible and pressed go, but alas, errors abounded. Despite inputting my zip code, they needed me to click on the city/state button to tell them whether their zip code database was accurate. Specifically, I had to choose between Manhattan, NY and New York, NY. Essentially, that one asshole years ago who put it in his address as Manhattan screwed it up for the rest of us. So, with each page load taking 2-3 minutes, I had to confirm my city and state for both my shipping and mailing addresses. What a pain in the ass?!

So when I finally got through that, as I was putting in my CC info, I got a call from my brother-in-law Erik. He'd gotten that far, plugged in all his info and then had it fall apart on him. They'd told him he timed out... thanks only to the Pinto-pace of their servers. Still, I forged ahead, hoping my luck would arbitrarily be better. I hit go and watched it process. And process. And process until the final screen came up and success was achieved.

Through two browsers, four windows and about a hundred reloads, I managed to score 4 floor seats to The Dead at the Izod Center in Jersey on April 29th. Exhale.