Does anybody read these?

Or maybe not?

My computer is now making some very odd noises when I turn it on. It sounds very much like it did around the time my hard drive melted last year.

When that happened, my computer guru friend told me that they needed to replace the broken fan that caused the overheating, the melted hard drive and the processor which probably when wacko from the heat.

Our good friends at the Carnival of Incompetence we call Hewlett-Packard Tech Support fixed the hard drive and the fan.

Me thinks the processor is finally calling it quits.

I am digging my practically worthless receipt out of the trash and calling the bozos at the "extended warranty" place this evening.

Oh, and I'm telling them that I borrowed a friend's power cord (I didn't, but mine's taped up with electrical tape) and that the connector is still bad, so they'll fix that too.

So, the laptop will be good as new. Assuming they don't do anything bad to my computer to punish me for going off on their phone support dude.

And I pray to God he doesn't answer when I call tonight. If he does, maybe I'll hang up and call back.

Or maybe I'll stay on the line and apologize for being a bitch.

Which reminds me. The girlie phone broke. (Already. Yes, Razrs are big pieces of crap, just like everyone said, but too late now.) However, my friends at Motorola said they'd replace it because it's three weeks old and shouldn't have broken.

Unlike T-mobile, who told me it was my fault, but they'd give me a new one for $50. The guy was nice, but he told me there was "no way" it was a warranty repair. Apparently Motorola thinks it is.

Thank goodness I hadn't donated my v330 to the domestic violence shelter yet. I can't go phone-less for a 10-14 days.

posted by Laura at 11:41 AM