My 360

WOO HOO!!!!! UPS called today and said they were delivering a package between 8 am and 7pm tomorrow. That can only mean my 360's is back in town.Me so happy!!

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In good with Lowes again

A few weeks ago, Lara and i went to Lowes to look at ceiling fans.Where we want to install them, we'll have to run the wires because  when the house was built ,they didn't put any ceiling lights in the whole house except  the kitchen.The house is 20 + years old.

We went to Lowes and told them what we wanted and picked out two fans.They'll install of course.They sent out a guy to get a quote for the job.He comes out and didn't stay for more than five minutes.Lowes would call us when he gave them the estimate.This cost us 35 dollars.

Lowes left a message on the answering machine,and i called them back. Talked to the guy who helped us before and he told me they don't do that kind of job. He said that Lowes will install but they don't run wires ( it's an electrical thing ).

Now when we first went,we specifically told them what needed to be done , run the wires and everything.Why in the hell didn't he tell us when we was out there the first time ! So we got charged 35 dollars for something they don't do anyway.Talk about burning your ass, i was mad as hell!..........SOB's.

Well , we went back to Lowes today to get our money back,and i was every bit prepare to get really, really, rude with these people.I wasn't going to put up with any of their BS.Got there,asked for the manager,he wasn't there,but got the assistant manager.  She was cool about it and agreed the guy should have told us then and there.And we got our money back.

I guess i won't boycott Lowes now.  All's well that ends well !

Posted by bunman @ 7:24 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

Red Ring of Death

I've been doing some thinking ( boy ,does my head hurt ! ),while waiting for my 360 to get back. You would think a company as big as Mircosoft  would figure out a way to prevent their console from doing a meltdown.I only had mine for seven months before the red rings started flashing. They wanted to be the first ones outta the gate but i think (there goes that word again ) they might have been a little too hasty.Especially for a next-gen hardware. I think they should have waited longer,and get more testing done to figure out a way to keep the console cooler.
No use in worrying now.What's done is done.Hopefully i won't have to send my 360 back multiple times.This.....wait......is ......killing........me.....I think i'll go cry in the corner now.

Peace !

Posted by bunman @ 10:40 pm EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Really is Hot as Hell

The weathers really been crazy the past couple of weeks.We've been getting a heat index of over 100 degrees plus.I know it's summer and all , but i don't remember the heat being like this.Needless to say , i haven't been doing much outside,especially with my asthma.
It's been rough at work too.Whatever the temp is outside,it's 20 degrees hotter inside.I surprised i haven't lost a hundred pound from all the sweating i've been doing .Still have the belly though.

Some areas around here have broken fifty year old records weather wise.

But we did have a cold front come thru the other day! It only got up to 94 degrees.

Peace Out !
 
As you can tell, i don't do much blogging.I've never blogged before until i joined 2old2play. First time for everything,right ?

Posted by bunman @ 12:47 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Technology sucks

For a while my wife has been wanting to get a laptop.We had a little extra money so we decided to finally get her one. We went on tax free weekend. A few days before we pre-shopped for one at Best Buy and picked out  two programs for them to install.They said the installation would be free.

We arrived,picked out what she wanted,got the programs.Everything was going fine until we started to check out. Now i don't know a hell of a lot about computers but the sales people were telling us that the one program she picked up was no good and tried to sell us a more expensive version.That led to this and that, oh, you need this,you need that. The laptop that we were looking at was around eleven hundred dollars( which i thought was a bit steep,but it was for my honey). When it was all was said and done,it was going to cost over eighteen hundred dollars!

I know they have to make a profit ,but damn, it got a little out of control.Like i said i don't know much about computers, and we may have needed all the BS they say we needed, but there's no way i'm spending that kind of money on a computer that's going to be outdated in a month anyway. And they were going to charge us for installation!

Needless to say , we didn' t get it.

I'm done ranting now.Thanks for listening.

Peace Out !

Posted by bunman @ 6:34 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments