I'm back!

Wasn't that quick? Anybody miss me?

Yes, I have a replacement monitor now. On Thursday, I took my monitor into Future Shop. As I'm sure all of you know, I HATE that place. But, I didn't have any choice since that's where I bought the monitor. So, I took it in, they looked at it, and yes, it was indeed broken. Thank you, genius. So, I went to the customer service desk to see what they could do for me. It turns out, when I bought the computer, I paid for the service package for 3 years for the computer, but the idiot that rang it in, rang the service package in for only the CPU, instead of the whole package, idiot. So, she said I was out of luck there. Luckily, I had looked in the owner's manual for the monitor, and it came with a 3 year manufacturer's warranty. So, I mentioned this to her, and she did some clicking away on the computer, and sure enough, I was right. So, she said that I should call the manufacturer directly and they would help me. Either that, or Future Shop could do that on my behalf, but it could take up to 6 weeks. I said and I quote "I would prefer to deal with the manufacturer rather than Future Shop because I have had the worst service in the world with Future Shop and I will never buy another computer here as long as I live". It felt so good to say that! So, I took my monitor and left.

When I got back to the office, I called up NEC (the manufacturer). They said I had 2 options. I could either get a refurbished one (of the exact same model I had), or I could drop my monitor off at one of their depots and they would try to fix mine, but that could take awile, depending on their back-log. So, I decided on the refirbished one. And, it arrived today, I plugged it in, and it works! It is even better than the one I had because my old one had a burnt out pixel. This one is like new! Yippee!

Okay, on to more important things! I had a good weekend. Met up with MM and the nej in toronto for the "everything to do with sex" show. It was a lot of fun! Went to a seminar on exotic dancing and the instructor made us all get up and try the moves. It was a lot of fun, but I am going to have to practice I think! Practice makes perfect, right? I figured I should have something to fall back on if this engineering thing doesn't work out ;)