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Boxing Day Expedition
Dec. 26th, 2010 07:03 pmLisa made one last try to see if she could get ActiveWorlds to work the way she wanted on the Sony laptop last night, and we found yet another reason this machine and the OS thereon is unsuitable.
( More about why Win7 is annoying )
I expected the return process at Fry's to be much more painful than it was. Instead of massive queues, we had almost no wait at all. We were quickly shuffled over to Service (they'll have to re-image the drive, of course), and then back to the Returns desk. They asked if we wanted to buy something comparable, in which case they might have been able to waive the 15% restocking fee, but Lisa declined. A few minutes later, we had our 85% refund receipt and were done.
Lisa had a look at the other computers there, but nothing grabbed her. Until they fix that "feature" in Windows, she just isn't interested. We'll make do with older, used machines for now. Heck, I might even be able to get one of my own older machines running again, and some of them are still going to give Lisa the added performance she's looking for, as they have faster video. (The video card seems to be the actual bottleneck on performance with ActiveWorlds, she says.)
Since we were already that far north, we went up to Bridgeport Village in Tualatin, where we'd been shopping for books just before Christmas but had balked at the hour-long queue to check out. Traffic was terrible. Parking was nearly impossible. We went through their parking garage and found no spaces. We ended up parking a km or two away in what probably was an area we weren't supposed to park for that center, but with all the other cars there, I decided it wouldn't be a problem. We got the books we wanted and then stopped for lunch. There's a restaurant there that makes a nice macaroni and cheese, which is always good on a cold day like today.
We started back to the van just as a very wet, very cold rain started dumping on us. We were not very happy by the time we'd made it back to the van. After our next stop at Cost Plus World Market to buy more scone mix and diet cream soda, Lisa announced that further shopping was canceled for today and we should just go home, which I was happy to do.
( More about why Win7 is annoying )
I expected the return process at Fry's to be much more painful than it was. Instead of massive queues, we had almost no wait at all. We were quickly shuffled over to Service (they'll have to re-image the drive, of course), and then back to the Returns desk. They asked if we wanted to buy something comparable, in which case they might have been able to waive the 15% restocking fee, but Lisa declined. A few minutes later, we had our 85% refund receipt and were done.
Lisa had a look at the other computers there, but nothing grabbed her. Until they fix that "feature" in Windows, she just isn't interested. We'll make do with older, used machines for now. Heck, I might even be able to get one of my own older machines running again, and some of them are still going to give Lisa the added performance she's looking for, as they have faster video. (The video card seems to be the actual bottleneck on performance with ActiveWorlds, she says.)
Since we were already that far north, we went up to Bridgeport Village in Tualatin, where we'd been shopping for books just before Christmas but had balked at the hour-long queue to check out. Traffic was terrible. Parking was nearly impossible. We went through their parking garage and found no spaces. We ended up parking a km or two away in what probably was an area we weren't supposed to park for that center, but with all the other cars there, I decided it wouldn't be a problem. We got the books we wanted and then stopped for lunch. There's a restaurant there that makes a nice macaroni and cheese, which is always good on a cold day like today.
We started back to the van just as a very wet, very cold rain started dumping on us. We were not very happy by the time we'd made it back to the van. After our next stop at Cost Plus World Market to buy more scone mix and diet cream soda, Lisa announced that further shopping was canceled for today and we should just go home, which I was happy to do.
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