New Computer
I bought (well ordered) a new computer for myself today. It needs to get shipped now, which means I won’t get it till June 27 or so (that’s my guess).
It’s not really a “new” new computer. It’s refurbished. And of course, it can’t possibly be an ordinary computer, crazy Unix Geek that I am. lol I need my occasional fix getting fairly uncommon hardware (and running fairly uncommon OSes on it). While this might be a little bizarre to the ordinary person, I consider it — for the most part — a quite harmless trait of mine. My wife may beg to differ, of course.
But just think, schveetie, how much worse it could be. I could spend all my money on alcohol…err…wait, did I just go and buy an “emergency pack” of beer yesterday? — Never mind, then.
The computer I am getting is a Sun Blade 2000.
Let’s hope shipping goes better this time than it did last year. I attempted something similar in February 2006 and got a busted computer chassis delivered. UPS must have dropped it and dropped it good. The vendor was so nice to ship me a new chassis, but after swapping the guts from the busted chassis into the new one, nothing worked. I subsequently gave up and shipped everything back. Getting the money back from the vendor fortunately not a big deal. But then the 8 month ordeal with UPS began. That’s how long it took them to finally refund me GST/PST and brokerage fees.
This time it’s going to get shipped by FedEx — and by a different vendor. One I’ve (successfully) bought from before. We’ll see what happens. I am optimistic.
