Jan. 11th, 2008

Bugger

Jan. 11th, 2008 12:48 pm
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I was being so good this morning. I did work before breakfast, and after; I answered e-mails; I was calm and efficient, not mad with impatience and desperate to get into town to collect the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection from the people who had tried to deliver it on Wednesday. I took my time. Even when I did go, I didn't run, I didn't even bustle.

I got there, I stood quietly in the queue, I handed over my delivery card.

And y'know what? It wasn't. The LHP. At this time of writing, I don't even know what it was: just a standard cardboard box containing something-or-other, I haven't bothered to open it. I am sooooo frustrated. And anxious now, of course, in a way I wasn't before. We are well within the delivery-window; if it hasn't come by this time tomorrow, I shall fret all weekend and compose anxious messages to send off Monday morning. This is so not what I wanted...

Box

Jan. 11th, 2008 01:44 pm
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Okay, I opened the box. Free stuff, from an eco-promotion: low-energy lightbulbs and an E-On Powerdown. All very welcome, but still. Not a laptop.

Also, of course, I had left the fish for tonight's supper in my bag with the box. Of course the cats got it. Well, one cat, largely. Probably. T'other was sitting by the wreckage conspicuously not eating it, all smug and telltaley...

Arse

Jan. 11th, 2008 02:49 pm
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I no can has Laptop of Heavenly Perfection!

The dealer I'd ordered it from was lying; they had none. And a desperate trawl through the internets keeps turning up other dealers advertising even-cheaper deals - and no stock. Someone more skilled or more patient or less miserable than me might be able to turn one up somewhere, I guess - but right now the only one I know about is the one in John Lewis in town, which is their display model and hence on special offer and still 50% more expensive than the deal I wanted. Which is such a deeply unattractive notion that I am not going to do that.

Maybe I'll just buy myself an Eee instead. But it will be no compensation, and oh, I am miserable...
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See me: although -after being so adult this morning! - I am like a child who has been denied his toy, I can still post links to other people's wonder.

Remember the guys who made the Battle for Helm's Deep last year out of candy?

Well, this year they've made the battle of Pelennor Fields. They should, quite possibly, get out more.

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