An Explanation
I haven't been posting much lately. Here's why:
While we were in Houston, the screen on my Toshiba M100 started to flicker and then went blank. The computer still worked with an external monitor, but upon our return home, I took my laptop to be repaired (it is under extended warranty*), and I was stuck using an old clunker [a 5-year-old Toshiba Satellite] without much of my software on it.
Meanwhile, I convinced the econ dept to contribute considerably toward a new laptop since they hadn’t ponied up for one for over 5 years (my old clunker). This new one is a bit small, but VERY light and it has a super crisp and bright screen, so I love it (aside from its having some keys in the wrong place, dammit!). It's a Toshiba R500, which weighs only 2.4lbs and has a very crisp screen.
Then my other laptop (the M100) came back from repairs [Future Shop, in case you're interested; they even kept it an extra day to bench test it to make sure it had been repaired properly!].
The screen was dead, remember? So what did the repair depot do? Replaced the friggn hard drive! Fortunately I had backed up all my files before I took it in (I do this at least once a day.... whew!), but I still lost all my regular software and will have to take the computer back to the univ to have it all reinstalled...grrrr (remember, I'm on leave this year and have been avoiding the place as much as possible). And then when I got the computer home (an hour's drive each way), the screen went blank again, after less than a minute.... double and triple grrrrr. I was so angry, I called them and yelled at them, as if that would do any good. So I had to drive back to London on Monday to return it to them.
For my trouble, they gave me a $15 gift card -- whoopee!
So for a week I was trying to get my clunker back up to speed, and then at least a weekend trying to get my new one up to speed. I can't wait to get back to economics, blogging, etc.
*Btw, I ordinarily think extended warranties are a big rip-off, but I’ve never had a laptop last 3 years without SOMEthing going wrong, so I always buy them for laptops.
While we were in Houston, the screen on my Toshiba M100 started to flicker and then went blank. The computer still worked with an external monitor, but upon our return home, I took my laptop to be repaired (it is under extended warranty*), and I was stuck using an old clunker [a 5-year-old Toshiba Satellite] without much of my software on it.
Meanwhile, I convinced the econ dept to contribute considerably toward a new laptop since they hadn’t ponied up for one for over 5 years (my old clunker). This new one is a bit small, but VERY light and it has a super crisp and bright screen, so I love it (aside from its having some keys in the wrong place, dammit!). It's a Toshiba R500, which weighs only 2.4lbs and has a very crisp screen.
Then my other laptop (the M100) came back from repairs [Future Shop, in case you're interested; they even kept it an extra day to bench test it to make sure it had been repaired properly!].
The screen was dead, remember? So what did the repair depot do? Replaced the friggn hard drive! Fortunately I had backed up all my files before I took it in (I do this at least once a day.... whew!), but I still lost all my regular software and will have to take the computer back to the univ to have it all reinstalled...grrrr (remember, I'm on leave this year and have been avoiding the place as much as possible). And then when I got the computer home (an hour's drive each way), the screen went blank again, after less than a minute.... double and triple grrrrr. I was so angry, I called them and yelled at them, as if that would do any good. So I had to drive back to London on Monday to return it to them.
For my trouble, they gave me a $15 gift card -- whoopee!
So for a week I was trying to get my clunker back up to speed, and then at least a weekend trying to get my new one up to speed. I can't wait to get back to economics, blogging, etc.
*Btw, I ordinarily think extended warranties are a big rip-off, but I’ve never had a laptop last 3 years without SOMEthing going wrong, so I always buy them for laptops.
Category: Blogging Posted on
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 7:44pm
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