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My laptop has sure gone through a lot of issues in its short little life.
- I lost its tablet pen and it took months of waiting before I replaced it because Gateway does not ship to Canada, and the stores that they told me I could order it from did not offer the product on their Canadian versions of their online stores. The physical stores would not special order it for me either. I eventually found a seller on ebay who did not list it at an expensive price.
- I killed it falling down on an icy hill with it in my backpack. The release button didn't work and I had to put tape over it to stop it from getting stuck shut. But with time, this seems to have magically fixed itself...?
- My charger broke and wouldn't charge it up. (The replacement charger I bought on ebay is kind of mean too, actually. I have to jiggle the part near the wall plug for it to work sometimes, even though I always pull the plug from the plug not the cord.)
- I broke the quotation mark/apostrophe key. It pops off constantly but luckily I can push it back in and it still functions as a normal quotation mark/apostrophe key.
- I spilt my GRAPES on it, which were slightly wet, and caused my computer to not be able to turn on for a few days. The touch pad was wonky but eventually started working normally. The memory card reader never recovered from that strange incident.
I only bought it in August 2006. O_O; My poor little lappy. He went through another harrowing experience a few days ago. I was in lecture, and my friend who was sitting beside me had her tea sitting between us on the armrest. At the end of class, she stood up to leave and her elbow knocked into the cup. Tea splashed all over the left hand side of my poor lappy. ;o; (My jeans took most of the blow thankfully. Hot hot hot though.). I immediately turned it and pulled out the battery. I took my lappy home and let it rest upside down for 24 hours before testing him, and he thankfully worked fine. T^T What a close one!
My friend was so worried and offered to pay the cost of any repairs which was very sweet of her. Luckily that wasn't necessary and the lappy lives on.
My lappy is immortal!
I got paid from my job at the fabric store. I was surprised because the amount I earned was larger than I expected. It was inventory season, which involved weighing every bolt of fabric in the store. Originally, Fabricgirls would be paid $8.00 an hour while Fabricboys would be paid $10.00 an hour. It kind of really sucked. It was expected that the Fabricboys would be doing more heavy lifting and should get more money, even though the Fabricgirls have to lift everything that the Fabricboys do when they weigh them on the scales.
The general system was that a Fabricgirl would run the scale. A Fabricboy would bring bolts to the Fabricgirl, she would weigh it, and then give it back and he'd put it away.
I ran the scale in the Home Dec and Fashion section. The fabric in the fashion section is a combination of Fall and Winter fabrics. Has anyone lifted those wool blend bolts when shopping? They're so huge and heavy! I know that the Fabricboys have to carry them for a longer distance, but the Fabricgirls have to carry the same bolts too.
There was talk among the Fabricgirls about how unfair this was but nothing was brought up to the manager about this at that time. I finished my time at the store and went back to my regular old scholarly life. Apparently while I was gone, there was a FABRICBATTLE. (Okay, the girls just talked to the manager, which is slightly less epic.) The result? We were given our extra $2.00 an hour for the inventory shifts. Yeah! <3