So, the one working computer I have at home right now is unbearably slow, and crashes about every half-an-hour or so. Whenever we try to use it to do anything (and there are certain things we simply cannot do at all) we end up spending 10x as long just trying to get the damn thing to work than we would've spent doing the thing we were trying to do in the first place. It's unbelievably frustrating, but for right now, it's all we have, so we're making do. But it's hard to say whether this is actually an improvement over not having any computer at all.
After a week in the shop, they determined that the problem with my other, newer computer is that when I brought it in to be repaired the first time, they mistakenly installed a Wireless card that only works with Windows 7, in a machine that is running Windows XP. So, they had to send it back to the parts-shop to get a new, correct Wireless card installed. Still waiting for that to come back. All told, they will have had my computer for approximately six weeks. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is five weeks longer than this should have taken to resolve.
In the midst of all of this, Her mother gave Her some money for Her birthday, to be spent toward the purchase of a new computer. Trying to be thrifty, since we're a one-income household at the moment, we shopped around for about a week on eBay, trying to find the best computer we could get for the best price. Finally found one we both liked, and for the right price, and we won the auction! (It's the same model as my computer that's in the shop, but newer, and nicer, and running Windows 7. And for about one-quarter what I paid for mine.) And it arrived this weekend, about a week earlier than we anticipated. We were really excited.
But then when I started to set it up, I started noticing that certain keys wouldn't work. I never took a full survey, but after I determined that the "X," "C," "V," and "ENTER" keys didn't work, I knew it wasn't something we'd be able to live with. I spent Saturday downloading and installing every driver and OS update I could find, in the hopes that it was just a software glitch, but nothing helped. Today we shipped it back to the seller to have him fix it (at least he's reimbursing us the shipping costs), though based on past experience, I'm not exactly confident in his abilities.
Oh, and my DVR has started overheating at random intervals, as well.
I swear, if my PS3 breaks, I'm moving to a cabin in the woods.
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