The morning after the night before
Sep. 9th, 2010 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Had a nice visit from Sarah this morning. We had a pleasantly intellectual chat about biology. I hear so often at the moment that I 'just don't understand' as an excuse for not justifying viewpoints it's kind of nice to talk turkey with a molecular biology graduate and remember that actually I do know things, despite what I keep getting told.
The zen-master patronising superiority angle is getting old real fast, just FYI.
I have had an awful lot of coffee and not a lot of food today. Resultantly I have a steaming headache brewing but I'm kind of not hungry enough to want to cook anything more complex than a bacon sandwich and I already had one of those for breakfast.
Also today, the monitor is being returned. There was a bit of an argument between vendor and manufacturer as neither wanted to take responsibility for it (Vendor, as with many electrical equipment retailers, won't take responsibility for a faulty product if it has a manufactuer's warranty. Manufacturer don't want to do anything because JR wants it replacing, not mending, and that's "not what they do" even though it says on their documentation that if it's not fixable they'll replace with an identical or superior model. But this will take longer as it has to go through diagnostic testing and whatnot first. JR just wants it swapping for a new one.)
So there was a lot of backing-and-forthing between camps. Vendor finally admitted they will take it back, and that the message on their online returns form saying they can't accept returns on faulty monitors isn't actually there, it's because 'Firefox isn't rendering the page properly'.
Hmm.
See my cynical eyebrow lift.
He got them to generate a returns number over the phone though, and it should be picked up by courier some time between 3 and 5 this afternoon. (EDIT: Or not. It got picked up at 2:45 and the guy said he'd already stopped by earlier but got no reply. *blinks* Uhh...)
I'm tired and crabby and would quite like a little vacation from my life for a bit. But I have 50p and a Bueno to my name right now and no matter how much I would like to retreat to a little cottage in the wild and wooly nowhere for a week or so just so I can try and figure out what the fuck I want to DO with my life, it ain't gonna' happen.
The zen-master patronising superiority angle is getting old real fast, just FYI.
I have had an awful lot of coffee and not a lot of food today. Resultantly I have a steaming headache brewing but I'm kind of not hungry enough to want to cook anything more complex than a bacon sandwich and I already had one of those for breakfast.
Also today, the monitor is being returned. There was a bit of an argument between vendor and manufacturer as neither wanted to take responsibility for it (Vendor, as with many electrical equipment retailers, won't take responsibility for a faulty product if it has a manufactuer's warranty. Manufacturer don't want to do anything because JR wants it replacing, not mending, and that's "not what they do" even though it says on their documentation that if it's not fixable they'll replace with an identical or superior model. But this will take longer as it has to go through diagnostic testing and whatnot first. JR just wants it swapping for a new one.)
So there was a lot of backing-and-forthing between camps. Vendor finally admitted they will take it back, and that the message on their online returns form saying they can't accept returns on faulty monitors isn't actually there, it's because 'Firefox isn't rendering the page properly'.
Hmm.
See my cynical eyebrow lift.
He got them to generate a returns number over the phone though, and it should be picked up by courier some time between 3 and 5 this afternoon. (EDIT: Or not. It got picked up at 2:45 and the guy said he'd already stopped by earlier but got no reply. *blinks* Uhh...)
I'm tired and crabby and would quite like a little vacation from my life for a bit. But I have 50p and a Bueno to my name right now and no matter how much I would like to retreat to a little cottage in the wild and wooly nowhere for a week or so just so I can try and figure out what the fuck I want to DO with my life, it ain't gonna' happen.
