It's a Good Week to be a Backpacker

I got news this week that my backpack has shipped!  Woohoo!  And...as if that isn't exciting enough...my tent arrived today!  It's shocking light and small.  It fit in the mailbox with room to spare.  If the tent didn't need to be staked, I would have set it up in the living room already.  Way too hot to set it up outside.  Maybe tonight when it "cools down" into the high 80s.  Just realized that I should have purchased the optional tent pole.  A trekking pole can be used in place of this tent pole, which is my plan when on the PCT, however, I hadn't planned on purchasing trekking poles until after my hike in September.  So, I'm going to need a tent pole soon, or will need to purchase trekking poles ahead of schedule.  It would have been so much easier to just order the pole with the tent.  Oh well.  Me and my crazy attempts to save a little money.