Part 2---the birthday gift. So a few weeks ago, the wife starts asking me what I want for my birthday gift. I had talked for awhile about getting a laptop, mainly so I can take my computer with me on trips, as well as having the ability to watch DVD's whenever we go anywhere. So we had been watching the ads, waiting to see if something interesting would pop up. Saturday night we went to the DELL store in the mall, got approved for one, but I thought it was a little expensive, so we didn't get it. The next day I saw an ad at Best Buy that had a SONY laptop for a pretty nice price with no interest for almost a year and a half. So I decide to call one of my computer guru's to get some advice. I call big bro to get some input:
"So, uh...given the choice....would you buy a DELL or a SONY laptop?" I ask.
"Oh hell...definitely DELL....good computer plus superior support services.
"Really....hmm...cuz I can get the SONY from Best Buy with no interest for a year and a half.
"Well....ya know, they have a good technical team at Best Buy too. Screw DELL.
Get the Sony. Ya know....all the damn computers are really the same basically."
That's what I like....a man who allows himself to be influenced by a key phrase.
Like....."NO INTEREST FOR 18 MONTHS".
So I go down to Best Buy with the wife, cuz let's be honest....I know nothing about computers. I've had one now for 7 years, and if you ask me to defrag one, the only way I would know is to call a friend and get the instructions step by step. (That's a hint by the way....someone send me an email with the instructions. PUHLEEZE!)
So we get there....and naturally after selling me on what a terrific deal the SONY is, the sales guy comes over and announces that they've sold out. Sold out? The damn thing just got advertised today! (Don't you love shit like that?) So he calls a couple of other stores to find out if they have one...and of course...they don't. So I offer to buy the one on the sales floor, and after some negotiating, we agree on a price. (Let's just say that I won't be paying for that 3 year full warranty thank you very much) So they go and install all their various insundry programs, I pick the thing up...take it home....and discover that the sales guy has given us the wrong wireless router. (Props to my man Greg the Cable Guy for discovering that) So Kim gets on the phone and calls the company that makes the router. She wants to find out if the wireless router for a broadband router will work on a DSL.....why yes it will. (which of course begs the question----then why the hell do you make two different ones????) We then discover that our next problem is the fact that the damn internet explorer on my computer still will not FREAKIN WORK!! Its only been 6 mos, but hey...who's counting?? Of course, now its really putting a burr in my ass because I need to go online to register my laptop at the wireless router site. Only one problem. I can't get online!! Well....I probably should phrase it like...."Kim can't get online", as I hear the gentle cursing beginning by the computer monitor.
So the guy from Bellsouth tries to help her figure out why the internet explorer isn't working.....for 3 and a half hours they try....and it ain't working. So the next day, I'm talking to the Cable Guy, who had burned me a copy of Microsoft Explorer download---only its not working too. So I go to the Microsoft site, and as CG is walking me through the process he utters these famous words.....
"....and so you see the thing about Windows Update?"
"Um...yeah."
"Well, as long as your there...you might as well update your Windows. When's the last time you updated?"
"Updated? Um....I'm supposed to be updating stuff?"
You could practically hear CG's hand slapping his head with the Homer Simpson
"DOH!" over the phone.
"Uh...I think we may have located part of the problem," CG says.
So then I begin the download....and CG asks me how long the computer is saying that I'm going to need to update....CG says his computer (updated weekly remember) usually needs a couple of minutes to update all the latest stuff. How long does it say its going to take my computer?
"Um....3 and a half hours."
"Call me later."
I guess my computer needed some updating. And today, I'm proud to say....the internet explorer.....still isn't working. See why I don't know computers?
Later,
Jeff
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