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17″ Flat Screen Monitor

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March 23, 2005

Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. Isn’t that the way it works?

I arranged to have tomorrow off. Those replace the car window before 9:00 guys did not show up here before 9:00. Assholes. So to take care of things, I asked if there was anything urgent going on at work and there wasn’t, so I arranged tomorrow off.

Amongst one of those things I will take care of is the fact that my driver’s licence is expired. I went to check on that today since they never sent me a new one from the time I was changing to the bus driver class. When I checked on it the guy told me that I’d have to go to a testing centre and do the whole eye test renewal thing cuz it’s been over a year.

So, get this. I’ve been driving with an expired licence for over a year. Not a good thing if you were to get pulled over. So tomorrow I will go up to a testing center not far from where I live and do that crap too.

As I was checking my email when I got home, I noticed that up in the top right-hand corner of my 17″ flat screen monitor, there were a whole bunch of stripey looking lines. I figured I’d reboot but instead I shut down.

Well, my monitor had a big rectangle of light and stripey lines up in the right-hand corner. I went through my receipt file and found the receipt. I bought this thing last March – just over a year ago, I think it was the 17th.

I also bought an extended warranty for $50 bucks. As I looked at the extended warranty tonight it had a checkmark beside “repair” not “replace”. So tomorrow I will also be taking my monitor to Staples to see if they are going to replace it.

The thing is, I don’t want a 17″ replacement. I now want a 19″ flat screen. So I don’t want that repair me buckos, I want a credit for a replacement and top it up to make it a 19″. I looked at the price I paid for this 17″ monitor just over a year ago and it was $479 before tax, plus the $50 warranty. Add the little $20 screensaver I also bought at the time and my bill was $646.25 for a monitor that has lasted a year. I’m not impressed.

Let me tell you all about what happens tomorrow after tomorrow arrives. For now I saw online that American Idol voting was fucked up last night. We missed it cuz we thought it wasn’t on til 9:00, and after our night of escapades, waited til 9:00 to turn on the TV and found it listed at 8:00.

But the good thing is that, because the voting was fucked up, apparently they’re redoing the show with half clips: half redone songs and leaving the voting for tomorrow night. So we’ll get to see the show after all.

I think I’m in a state of depression and I don’t know if it’s all about the car window break-in thing, but it’s another reason I wanted to take tomorrow off work.

I felt done in today like I just wanted to go to bed and stay there. Forever. I kept thinking about giving up my life and renting a room somewhere. Just a room by myself with my computer and large TV. Being a cashier at a grocery store or something and working all day, and going home to bed.

Other than my thoughts of becoming a recluse, I also thought that if I’d had a gun, I’d just shoot myself in the fucking head right there in the smoking room at work. Yes, that’s where I was having these thoughts. I didn’t even care whether or not the smoker-friends would have some grisly sight to witness, or a mess was left to clean up. Recluse/gun… decisions, decisions.

So anyway, I think it’s good that I’ll be off tomorrow and just take care of things that need to be taken care of. Maybe when I wake up in the morning – with, hopefully, mucho sleeping in time, I’ll be in a better frame of mind.

Oh, and one of my credit cards sent me a letter today to tell me that they’ve increased my limit. I suppose I could buy that iPod now if I want it.

WTF?

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