I forgot to mention that the token 1 GB of RAM I wheedled out of AppleCare arrived extremely quickly via DHL. I went to install it and realized that I didn’t have a #00 Phillips screwdriver (say, that explains how I stripped the screw on the memory door on the Powerbook…). I went to Home [...]
I don’t know if it’s because we ask her to repeat herself when we don’t quite get what she’s saying, or if it’s just fun, but Zoey loves to pretend that she can’t hear us. She’ll stare right in my face, usually after I’ve told her something she doesn’t want to hear (like “You asked [...]
This afternoon I grabbed Zoey and headed to the Apple Store once more, to return the broken replacement MacBook Pro and pick up its replacement. We drove, we parked, we sauntered on in. I set Zoey up “checking her email” at the kids’ computers, and was met soon enough by Genius Jeff coming on out [...]
I just got off the phone with AppleCare once more. I was finally able to discover that the replacement to the broken replacement to the lemon was delivered by FedEx to the Lynnwood Apple Store this morning. Their resident Head Genius is slated to test the computer when he’s back from lunch, to make sure [...]
It wasn’t all torture waiting on hold for AppleCare, thanks to Zoey and the new broken computer’s built-in iSight camera. See more photos on Flickr.
(A) Too Good To Be True
(B) Not Like They Used To
(C) Fury Of A Thousand Tigers
(D) Mercury In Retrograde
(E) All of the above.
I called AppleCare to talk about how the Brand-New Replacement Computer they sent me was not believing in its Brand-New Replacement Battery. I had already reset the Power [...]
All worries about Chinese New Year interfering with the delivery of the replacement MacBook Pro were needless, it turns out. This morning as Zoey and I were blearily strapping ourselves into Zoey’s minivan to make our way to preschool, I finally noticed the FedEx truck parked fifteen feet away from me in the street. The [...]
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When you absolutely, positively, have to have it in, oh, five or so days…
I finally got notification that the new laptop has shipped. Via FedEx. FedEx Ground. From Shanghai China. Sigh.
Oh well—at least it’s on the way.
Yep, we have all been sick for a long time now… I caught the cold/cough thing going around. I gave it to Zoey… Evan got a little bit of it and then went straight for the flu. Zoey developed hives from drinking Odwalla’s C-Monster juice. Evan got a super bad ear infection and now I [...]
Zoey just brought me the four colorful gingerbread people from her Collector’s Edition Candy Land game. She told me that the red one was named Speestah. I asked her what the other ones were named, so she rattled off the names Zodah, Spiddit, and Stinko. I shook their little hands and (in Zoey’s voice) they [...]
