Homerun!

Well, i bought the laptop yesterday from Best Buy. $399 plus tax, came with 1gb ram, windows vista. You can see all the specs here.

1:45mins of riding the bike to get to the Coral Springs store since the one closer to me had sold out of them. 2 and a half hrs to save money, worth it for me, not so good for my legs.

I went and bought a 1gb ram stick to upgrade it to 2GB, then i find out (at my tent) that both slots are taken!!

For those who may not understand, a laptop usually has 2 slots for memory sticks, if the laptop comes with 1GB of RAM and both slots are taken it means each stick is 500MB of RAM and you can't upgrade it to 2GB unless you have two 1GB sticks to replace what's already there.

I go back today making a pretty good case. I didn't want to return the laptop but the salesman had misdirected me by saying there was a slot open.

So what happens?

I had paid $50 for the 1GB ram at the other store, the one closer to me has a sale on the same kind of memory for $30!

Aha! i return the 1GB stick i had bought at the other store and then buy 2 of the ones that are on sale. So for $10 my problem is solved and i can probably sell the old RAM on ebay once i get a place to stay for the ten bucks and break even.

Besides that little event, i forgot to mentioned yesterday that i managed to do something for Darr which he probably appreciate.

The puppy in the family (Rex) has been pooping and peeing everywhere in the house, that and he has done damage to almost every area in their household. Every attempt by Derr to get rid of the dog was met with Mary's tears, their kids begging and the man was outnumbered.

So the night i spent at his house i started to work on Mary, telling her how the dog is making her life more difficult and told her i would go with her to return the dog the next day. She wasn't sure, but i had a good feeling.

The next day after all the kids were in school i went with her to give the dog to the humane society. All the paperwork was done, she signed everything and she was crying. It wasn't easy but i was there for her reminding about the stress and having to clean poop all over her house.

I left a voicemail to Darr later that day, i hope he appreciates what i did. Rex was really causing him a lot of stress because he would mention the dog almost on a daily basis.

Right now i'm transfering files from the old to the new laptop and trying to get used to it. Being online without having to wait it's great.