My laptop died about two weeks ago which is one reason my updates stopped. In the attempts to get Best Buy and Toshiba to honor the warranties it has become a bit of a hassle and what I realized to be a full fledged side quest in the spirit of Final Fantasy.
It more or less looked like this.
-Laptop broke.
-Slight angst but after a quick hunt found receipts and information for laptop.
-Call TW and get her to join me on a mission to drop of the laptop (and trip to the doctor afterwards for unrelated reasons)
-Attempt to deliver laptop to Best Buy.
-Stand in line at Best Buy with TW while having a very creepy and irate old man start to cause trouble.
-Watching for him to pull a gun I equipped the laptop and prepared to use it as a bludgeon tool.
-Creepy man was distracted by a manager so we survived the encounter and were able to be seen by a store clerk.
-Said clerk quickly diagnosed the broken hinges and dead hard drive as hardware failures and tells me I should have it back in about two-three weeks.
Time Passes...
-The laptop is sent to the factory, fixed and sent back to the store. However I am told I need to acquire: 'KEY ITEM Sacred Recovery Disk DVD'
-I balk. "Why am I required to find 'KEY ITEM Sacred Recovery Disk DVD'?" I ask. The clerk informs me that such KEY ITEMS are no longer included in the box when you buy computers.
-Slight angst and a scramble to find goods with which to barter with.
-After some hard work at brainstorming and using my chronic health issues and constant need for medication to my advantage... I put in numbers to have Insurance redeem all the Potions, Tonics and Tinctures I bought from CVS and credit my account with shinies.
-After a victory fanfare I sent TOSHIBA digital shinies and evidently will receive the 'KEY ITEM Sacred Recovery Disk DVD' in the mail sometime next week.
-Presumably after getting the disk I will go to Best Buy, attempt to give them the item and will have to fight off the combined forces of Cthulhu, Sephiroth, Kefka, Lavos, Giygas, The Archdemon, EX-Death, Zeromus, Ghaleon, Ganondorf, Sin, Izanami...and maybe a few kobolds or somethings to round things out.
-All of this so I might continue on my main quest of having a working laptop so I can finish my Main Quest of spreadsheet editing and get more shinies in order to repeat the above process.
Whew.
I will keep you posted as to how the final legs of this side quest will go.
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