Something to Do
Nov. 22nd, 2024 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI had not planned to build a new computer now. And then the Black Friday sales dropped and the bundle price of CPU and motherboard went down by a lot at Micro Center. Oh.
So I pulled together an order in my cart there, but Micro Center doesn't carry the type of case that I like, which is the Antec Silent series. But I knew that Newegg had a suitable case in stock -- the same one I used for the studio computer rebuild two years ago, so that would be just fine. I ordered up the case and went back to Micro Center to place my order for the rest of the parts.
It wouldn't go through. All of the parts were in stock, but the website kept telling me that one of the parts was out of stock, was highlighted, and needed to be removed from the order. None of the parts were highlighted, so following the instruction was going to fail dismally. Huh.
At this point, I started a chat with customer support. They suggested clearing my cache and using another browser to see if that worked. It didn't. Apparently, I would need to go to the store to place this order.
While waiting around for the chat representative to show up, I ducked into the bathroom briefly. It was at this point that the zipper on my jeans decided to jam open, despite my best efforts to unjam it. Malfunction was apparently the order of business.
Anyway, I made a list of everything that I would need to pick up and decided to head to the store tomorrow. With any luck, I will be able to pick up the remaining parts.
And I changed my pants and threw them in a load of laundry. Maybe the zipper will unjam after they are washed. In case it doesn't, I have ordered two new pairs of jeans.
I also ordered two USB hard drive enclosures to put the drives that I removed from the old computer into, because they should make perfectly reasonable backup drives for various uses around the house.
All this and it isn't even Black Friday yet...
So I pulled together an order in my cart there, but Micro Center doesn't carry the type of case that I like, which is the Antec Silent series. But I knew that Newegg had a suitable case in stock -- the same one I used for the studio computer rebuild two years ago, so that would be just fine. I ordered up the case and went back to Micro Center to place my order for the rest of the parts.
It wouldn't go through. All of the parts were in stock, but the website kept telling me that one of the parts was out of stock, was highlighted, and needed to be removed from the order. None of the parts were highlighted, so following the instruction was going to fail dismally. Huh.
At this point, I started a chat with customer support. They suggested clearing my cache and using another browser to see if that worked. It didn't. Apparently, I would need to go to the store to place this order.
While waiting around for the chat representative to show up, I ducked into the bathroom briefly. It was at this point that the zipper on my jeans decided to jam open, despite my best efforts to unjam it. Malfunction was apparently the order of business.
Anyway, I made a list of everything that I would need to pick up and decided to head to the store tomorrow. With any luck, I will be able to pick up the remaining parts.
And I changed my pants and threw them in a load of laundry. Maybe the zipper will unjam after they are washed. In case it doesn't, I have ordered two new pairs of jeans.
I also ordered two USB hard drive enclosures to put the drives that I removed from the old computer into, because they should make perfectly reasonable backup drives for various uses around the house.
All this and it isn't even Black Friday yet...