March 26th, 2004 yoshers
Microsoft is not all bad. My 2 year old mouse Wireless Intellimouse Explorer broke and I found out via Fatwallet and Anandtech that I can call up Microsoft’s Supplemental Parts department and request a replacement! Lo and behold, a few days after I faxed in the request, Microsoft has sent me a new version of the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer! I hope people do not abuse this and for those of you that have a broken keyboard or mouse from Microsoft, give this a shot.
The United States Postal Service forwarding system is very erratic. I was back in Berkeley over spring break and found that Shareena and I had quite a lot of mail at our house in Berkeley. At least none of my stuff was very important (and I don’t think Shareena got anything important other than her bank statements), but it would be nice if things got forwarded properly. I know it is difficult to keep up with all that mail, but consistency would be nice.
Fixing a door is hard. The laundry door at the Berkeley house blew off during the last rain/wind storm. It was already not really fitting in the door frame as the door was slowly deforming and coming apart while the door frame (which I noticed when I tried to put in the new door) was not really done up to par. So my reward for trying to put the door in were 1) finding out the door is too small and the frame was not done properly in the first place, not to mention the hinges do not quite line up. 2) leaving the new door un-closed as there is too much space for a closing mechanism to be useful. So a temporary solution is in place (rocks to hold close the door as it doesn’t quite close on its own) and more fun when I get back in June.
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March 9th, 2004 yoshers
Well, I had been staying nicely away from Fatwallet most of my time in Chicago. Alas, it was not to last, but there were some tremendous deals last couple of weeks that I could not pass up.
First, it was a $25 Dual Format DVD writer (which does 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-R, and 40X CD-R writing) at Office Max. This was a slight price mistake that happened on a Sunday. At the end of that current week (Monday-Sunday), the price should have been $149.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate = $100. However, the register rung it up with next week’s price of $149.99 – $80 instant rebate = $69.99. So basically I got it for $69.99 out the door + $50 rebate = $19.99 plus tax. Not bad at all =). Too bad DVD media is still just below $1 per disc…quite expensive.
The second deal was just a normal deal, not quite as scorching as the DVD writer. Office Depot had a stick of Kingston 512MB PC2700 RAM for $99.72 – $20 coupon – $50 mail-in rebates = $30 plus tax, which is a good price for 256MB of RAM. Although I didn’t really need more RAM on my computer (already have 2×256MB = 512MB on only a 1GHz Athlon…yes, I should upgrade), I thought I would add it to my computer (it only has 2 slots) and add the remainder to Shareena’s mom’s new computer (price mistake from Dell via Fatwallet) that is a Pentium 4, but with only 128MB of RAM. It just seems so wrong to me even though the computer won’t be used very heavily.
So those are my misadventures recently…I think I have successfully convinced myself that I do not need a new computer…yet, but if the right deal comes along…
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March 1st, 2004 yoshers
- When you are young, getting older is great, because it gets you closer to certain “age limit” stuff like legal drinking…and (at 25), not having to pay more for rental cars!
- This is balanced by, being older = more responsibilities.
- Birthdays are a great opportunity to get stuff and having people treat you nicer.
- But when it is close to other special days (pity those late December babies), “two for the price of one” doesn’t sound so good anymore.
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