The Harlot is coming to Denver again. On Friday, April 4. I will be unemployed by then, so you know what that means... I'm going to Denver ;) Well, Highlands Ranch to be more precise. Yes, there is a difference. Highlands Ranch is on the south side of Denver, which means hitting Denver right about rush hour. Oh happy day. Then again, I will be unemployed, so I could leave early ;) Well, if I could get the hubby to be home early to pick up the munchkin after school, anyway.
I've posted in the Colorado Bloggers group on Ravelry, to see if anyone would be interested in car pooling. I know there are other knitters in my area (Loveland is home to Interweave Press, after all lol).
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
A need to knit
I have not picked up my needles since the horrifying trip over Vail Pass. I really need to take some quiet time and just sit and knit. I'm going to do a few more plain knit rows, but then I need to start the pattern of hearts. I am thinking I very much just want to do one heart each end. The munchkin won't care, and really, the sooner I finish this scarf the sooner I can start playing with the yarn that has been teasing me for months...
I think this will drive me insane, but I really want to try it.
I also want to try cables. I went to my favourite knitting site, Knittinghelp.com, and watched the video on cables and it doesn't look hard, really. We shall see.
I think this will drive me insane, but I really want to try it.
I also want to try cables. I went to my favourite knitting site, Knittinghelp.com, and watched the video on cables and it doesn't look hard, really. We shall see.
Monday, February 18, 2008
"Bust" Buy strikes again
I'm glad to see someone is finally taking a stand against them.
We bought a computer from them. Once. They talked us into buying the extended warranty. It was an HP. After a while, we started getting messages that warned us of imminent hard drive failure. We were glad at that point we'd shelled out the extra money. It's amazing how similar our story is to that woman's...
We loaded the CPU into the car and headed for the closest store, about 45 minutes away. They boot it up, and there's, of course, no message. Finally after booting it about 5 times, the message appears. OK. We have to send it to the service center in Denver and it will take about 3 - 5 weeks. (Now that I know better, I think, "What?? Three weeks to replace a plug and play hard drive??") But at the time we didn't think anything of it, and after all, we were heading to London for 3 weeks, so it was perfect timing.
We get back and no computer. For the next two weeks we hassled the store. At one point they freely admitted that they had lost it, but never offered us compensation. Finally, we discovered that our computer was in California. It had been placed on the wrong truck and had gone to Cali with a load of computers that were to be recycled.
So. Let's think about this for a second. The original store was in a town that was home to a huge HP plant. HP computer... One would think a hard drive would be easy to get a hold of. But no, we had to send it two hours away to Denver to have it fixed. Yet it ended up even farther away, in CA.
They truck it back to Denver. And we wait again, because it still needs a hard drive. Finally they put the new drive in. It doesn't work. They have to send for a new one. Days later the new one arrives, they put it in. Oh, and by the way, we can't seem to recover the data off your old drive. It's finally ready and they tell us that it will be another week before we can have it back because we've missed the weekly truck back to the original store. WTF??? Give. Me. My. Damned. Computer. BACK!
My hubby and I decided we didn't trust another truck anyway, so he drove down and got it.
I guess we were lucky, they found ours. But this article makes me wonder how many people go through this every year?
We boycotted Best Buy after our computer run in, we continue to do so to this day.
We bought a computer from them. Once. They talked us into buying the extended warranty. It was an HP. After a while, we started getting messages that warned us of imminent hard drive failure. We were glad at that point we'd shelled out the extra money. It's amazing how similar our story is to that woman's...
We loaded the CPU into the car and headed for the closest store, about 45 minutes away. They boot it up, and there's, of course, no message. Finally after booting it about 5 times, the message appears. OK. We have to send it to the service center in Denver and it will take about 3 - 5 weeks. (Now that I know better, I think, "What?? Three weeks to replace a plug and play hard drive??") But at the time we didn't think anything of it, and after all, we were heading to London for 3 weeks, so it was perfect timing.
We get back and no computer. For the next two weeks we hassled the store. At one point they freely admitted that they had lost it, but never offered us compensation. Finally, we discovered that our computer was in California. It had been placed on the wrong truck and had gone to Cali with a load of computers that were to be recycled.
So. Let's think about this for a second. The original store was in a town that was home to a huge HP plant. HP computer... One would think a hard drive would be easy to get a hold of. But no, we had to send it two hours away to Denver to have it fixed. Yet it ended up even farther away, in CA.
They truck it back to Denver. And we wait again, because it still needs a hard drive. Finally they put the new drive in. It doesn't work. They have to send for a new one. Days later the new one arrives, they put it in. Oh, and by the way, we can't seem to recover the data off your old drive. It's finally ready and they tell us that it will be another week before we can have it back because we've missed the weekly truck back to the original store. WTF??? Give. Me. My. Damned. Computer. BACK!
My hubby and I decided we didn't trust another truck anyway, so he drove down and got it.
I guess we were lucky, they found ours. But this article makes me wonder how many people go through this every year?
We boycotted Best Buy after our computer run in, we continue to do so to this day.
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