Yes I am Booli, thank you. Incredibly we still have electricity and internet. I'm sitting here listening to the wind , eating Oreos for lunch, watching the radar, and playing my ukulele. I understand the benefits of buying a ukulele from someone who will set it up, and I understand all the about the manufacturers, but seriously, dealers shouldn't have to set them up. There are a lot of products manufactured under the same conditions, and they work fine right out of the box. Just saying. My skylights are leaking too. I don't think that they were built to stop water coming in sideways.
Glad to hear you are ok. It's been raining pretty hard here all day in NJ, and we had to power go out 4 times, the first 3 were about 10 mins apart, and then about an hour later power was out for about 2 hrs, and the neighbor who knows folks that work for both the town and public utility co., said that 4 transformers were blown, in a sort of domino effect...4 mile radius was dark from it, but the neighbor told us that the folks needed were working on fixing it...
and once we got candles lit, and everything settled, and I had a glass of whiskey next to me and uke in hand, just as I strummed the first chord, all the power came back, and looking outside all the neighbors have lights on now, whereas before, you see the faint glimmer of, and flickering from candle-light only, from their windows.
I would agree with you about the ukes coming ready to play, but we have so many choices of vendors now, that it is usually only the newbies that dont know any better to ask questions that are getting burned by ukes that are unplayable out of the box, and ironically, those are the folks that need ukes playable from day one, otherwise they will be more likely to give up not knowing that high action, rough frets, and poor intonation CAN in fact be fixed - they will just thing that these badly-setup ukes are too hard for them to try and play...seen it happen many times with both guitar and ukes...