When I bought my laptop from Best Buy oh so many years ago, I opted to get the extended warranty. It wasn’t too much and the guy assured me that I’d need a new battery, hard drive, ram, something within the first 3 years. Why not?

So in the last month before that warranty ran out, nothing had happened. The only thing that happened was the hinges had cracked and the screen wasn’t sitting upright as well. I decided to go ahead and send it in so I wasn’t wasting money. When I did send it in they sent it back with the hinges still cracked and put a note that they had ‘tightened’ the hinges. I sent it back again, then it came back with a new case.

About a month later I’m here with a dead laptop that won’t boot. I took it in to Best Buy and I told him that I think it’s more than just a coincidence that it was shipped back and forth and now it won’t work. The guy insisted to me that it was a waste of my money to fix it and that I should just buy a new one. I insisted back to him that the problem had something to do with them. Finally, he agreed to run a diagnostic on it without charge. That diagnostic came back and said the hard drive had failed. So he then told me that I shouldn’t bother to replace the hard drive because more things were going to break and it would be a waste. The fee to replace the drive was $40 and the price of the drive itself was $120.

I brought the laptop home without getting the service and called my brother. He sent me the link to an $80 hard drive and said he’d replace it for me. He also said that a laptop should last 5+ years, especially in capable hands.

So Best Buy can shove it.

I have a few blogs that I’ve allowed to slip. I always thought it was lack of interest, or time, or motivation, or maybe a combination of all. But today I had an epiphany. I say epiphany because this thought came to mind randomly, completely without reason.

The reason I’m not active in my blogs like I’d like to be is because they’re not what I wanted them to be. I know nothing ever ends up exactly as you planned, but they’re nowhere close. So yeah, it is a matter of lack of interest, but the lack of interest is with what they’ve become, not the sites themselves. I’m grabbing a notebook right now and making plans for what I want on each of these sites and how to make it happen. Especially since Anna <3 is currently available to help with the graphical aspect.

I haven’t lost my interest in the internet or in creating websites, I can tell because I’m always thinking about things I want to do with them. I’ve lost interest in the half assed sites I’ve built. What does this mean? I hope it means some real kick ass sites are coming soon. If nothing else, it means I’ve opened my eyes a bit more and everyone can benefit from that.

This site included.. so I guess it’s time for a revamp!

Recently Square-Enix came out with a new Final Fantasy 7 game for the PSP. I thought that before I invested money in it and played it, I would play the original and watch the movie again. I want to have a fresh recollection of them before starting the new ones. I’ve been searching everywhere for my copy of FFVII so I can play it, but it’s nowhere to be found. I found the case.. and I even found my copy for the computer. Unfortunately, the computer version doesn’t work on any machine I have (other than a really old one that’s in the closet).

While I was looking I did find a few other things, too. I found a ‘To Do’ list I had written out with plans for websites (new and re-doing old ones) and it’s given me a little spark. I think I may attempt to get some of them going. I also found a notebook from when I was going through some shitty times and trying to find out why I was so unhappy. It had a list of things I could do and how much they’d help. The next page has a plan for weight loss from 2 years ago that lists my weight at 228lbs. Geez.. was I that big? My brother showed me an old photo from that time.. I barely recognize myself.

Have you ever done this? Gone through old things or happened upon some things from your past and said ‘Wow, I was so different..”? Tell me about it.

I was reading my email in Gmail today and I saw this link at the top that said:

“Just 25 Cents - We have a great idea! Will you support us with 25¢?”

Of course I assumed this was some sort of charity, but my curiosity is just sinful, so I clicked. Good thing I did, because they just paid how much for that link? Anyway, I went to the website and I clicked ‘Why?’ - I’m sure you all want to know why you’d want to give away your money, too. So why should we give him our money? Well, because he has a great idea and because you can trust Paypal! Oh sure, why not? This website assures me it’s not a scam so I might as well give it my Paypal username (which would include my full name) so it can guess my password and whatever else. I don’t know, seems incredibly fishy to me.

Incase you’re curious, I’m not linking this site because I truly believe it’s a scam and I don’t want to send you there. However, if you’re an idiot like me, you can feel free to Google it. Make sure to click on his paid ad so he has to pay for your click. However, I did put my Paypal referral link in this post incase you’re thinking of signing up with them. *evil*