A Few Updates to a Few Posts...

Following up to I Bought A TV...
I just happened to stop by Best Buy yesterday after a long day of driving to see my future dog to see how things were going, and if my new TV was ready. It wasn't.
Lots of balls got dropped by Best Buy, apparently. Not only was my TV not put on the truck in Ft Smith to be mailed to me, but the TV was sold.

This made me ever increasingly agitated and stinky.

A bulk of the time was spent trying to figure out what happened. Eventually they start offering me options. I really didnt want to leave the store without a new, working TV, so the notion of waiting until sometime next week to mess up again. Er, get me another TV from... somewhere.

So my options became wait until next week for a new model of my tv to come from Tulsa, change out my TV for a similar model (an LG), or upgrade for $100.

I wanted the TV today, so waiting wasnt a real option... I really dont like LG (the salesman even said while trying to sell me on the LG that Samsung had a better picture)... and the idea of giving them MORE money didnt appeal to me. I was between a rock and a hard place, and couldnt think anymore.

I was forced to call my electronic financial adviser: My Dad. His only question was whether or not the upgrade was in fact a much better TV, and it was. So he told me to go for it.
Now I think I have, hands down, the best TV amongst my friends and family.
It looks great, dont get me wrong... I just went over budget. Wouldnt have been as much an issue, but since I saved so much the first time... I bought other things that now have me over budget. No big deal.

That's what student loans are for, right?


Now, remember that $20 that wandered off from the Hotel back in Work Frustration? Well, I told him about it, and while he knew he was going to get his $20... that wasn't enough. He wanted them to know that they stole his money. He came up to the hotel (while I was buying my TV) and asked about the money. They gave it to him, but it wasnt enough. He wanted the envelope it was in. I wasnt here for it, but things got real serious, apparently. So much so they had to call the police to escort him off the property.

Way to go.