I know, I know... excuses are for the weak. We all die anyway. So yeah, anywho... I have this great story, so use those skills taught to you in Boy/Girl Scouts and build a campfire, toast some marshmellows, grab a log to sit on, and we'll get started.
It's been quite some time since I made a submission. Not only have I had prolonged poet's block, but the ideas I was juggling around with (I was pretty far along with some of them) were all saved in a nice, cute, dainty notepad file. I dunno what it is... I like to get things as close to perfection (in MY mind) before I release them to the general public, so believe me when I say there were quite a few ideas floating around in that file. Anywho, yeah... my harddrive decided to fail suddenly. This was about two months ago, by the way. So, I naturally sent the unit away in hopes that my harddrive wasn't beyond repair. I received a call about a week later telling me that it indeed was, beyond all repair. So, I would have to get a new one. Yeah... this blows donkeys. So anywho, they had my computer for two months before returning it to me, JUST so they could put a freakin' harddrive in it. Does it take two months to do that? I called one day to check in on them, a Monday in fact... "uhh, yeah. We just got the shipment of harddrives with the one you requested this last weekend and I'm working on yours as we speak." Right, right... good job techie. Two months without my baby... so yeah, I finally got it back two days ago and I'm still in the process of getting all of the settings back to how they once were. I called a place called DriveSavers and received a rough estimate of how much they thought it would cost to rebuild my tattered harddrive from the inside-out. The end result was somewhere in the range of 500 to 1700, and that was only because I'm a college student, and was referred by a friend. It would've been even worse otherwise. I mean, the thing had a lot of important data on it, but it was only a ten gig... so I have to really ask myself if it would be worth it. The instant answer I tell myself is "YES!", but I know the moment I did it, I would regret losing all of that money and begin thinking of all of the other things it could've gone towards. Ah well, that's life... something I need more of.
So yeah, that's my story in a nutshell. Hope you're all as pissed off at CompUSA as I am. I hear their technicians eat babies.