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Oliver is fine. My computer is not!
Oliver is fine after is little drunken interlude New Years Eve. He
awoke the next morning and seemed his usual lovable self. If he did have a hang over he must have slept it off since he had his little drink early in the evening. My computer did no drinking but is in a bad way and is being sent off to Compaq for the THIRD time to get fixed. So Oliver and I will not be able to read news ;-( . Hope everyone is having a happy new year!! -- Margaret Fine |
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So glad to hear Oliver is fine. Purrs for your computer though.
Best wishes, -- Polonca & Soncek "Margaret Fine" wrote in message hlink.net... Oliver is fine after is little drunken interlude New Years Eve. He awoke the next morning and seemed his usual lovable self. If he did have a hang over he must have slept it off since he had his little drink early in the evening. My computer did no drinking but is in a bad way and is being sent off to Compaq for the THIRD time to get fixed. So Oliver and I will not be able to read news ;-( . Hope everyone is having a happy new year!! -- Margaret Fine |
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On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:11:04 GMT, Margaret Fine
wrote: Oliver is fine after is little drunken interlude New Years Eve. He awoke the next morning and seemed his usual lovable self. If he did have a hang over he must have slept it off since he had his little drink early in the evening. My computer did no drinking but is in a bad way and is being sent off to Compaq for the THIRD time to get fixed. So Oliver and I will not be able to read news ;-( . Hope everyone is having a happy new year!! Reminds of a friend a few years ago who bought a system that came in one of those cow boxes (for those who may not know, one of the US companies, Gateway, started out in a cow barn and ships their systems in black and white boxes). No local outlet, so he ordered through the mail. The friend got his new system, which didn't work. After calling and talking to customer service, they decided over the phone that the problem was probably either in the monitor or hard drive. They sent a tech, 90 miles away, out with a new hard drive and monitor. The tech checked out the sytem, decided that it was probably a problem with the motherboard. So, he boxed up the old system and took it back, but left the new monitor, still in the box, because it wouldn't fit in his car. After a couple weeks, my friend called and asked what was going on. The customer service rep couldn't find the status on the tracking system, so said they'd send a replacement. My friend said fine, but he didn't need a new monitor as he still had the one the tech guy left. After looking through some ads, my friend saw that he could now get the same system he'd paid for for a couple hundred dollars less, what with the planned obsolesence built into computers. So he called customer service the next day, and after some negotiating, they agreed to upgrade him to the system they were currently selling at the price he'd paid. Sounds like a happy ending, but there's more to the story - and I swear this is a true story, I actually know the guy, we were in a computer club together. About three days after his last call, he came home and his mother told him that his computer had come. He went into his home office and found that two new sytems had been delivered, the replacement (complete with the unneeded monitor) and the upgrade. While he's on the phone, finding out that the rep that arranged the upgrade hadn't canceled the replacement, UPS showed up with the original system. So, for a few minutes he had three complete systems, along with an extra monitor. LOL -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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