Woes x 2

Missed out on Dragonmeet because of my 'flu. 2 days off from work, and 1 day of my pleasure!

So thats 1 woe, now for number 2. The wife dragged me to TK Maxx with the consolation that we will finally be buying a new laptop for home. Got to PC World and found the machine I was after. Bought and paid for it, and then drove home. So whilst the wife was trying on a million and one new clothes she bought, I was quietly setting the laptop up, installing the software and going through the initialisation sequence.

Everything was going fine until I started using the keyboard and it had the most awful buzzing sound from loose plastic I had ever heard of. In fact the entire faceplate of the laptop "buzzed" extremely loudly no matter what I did. Being a bit techy, I opened the machine up as safely as I dare to see if there was something loose inside, but to no avail. So Ive packed the machine up ready for a free replacement, you bastards, because I doubt they will compensate me for wasting an hour of my evening setting it up for nothing.

One thing I did also notice too was the lid of the laptop closed, but there was ample room still for the lid to be closed further, which I find odd, as my Dell, and in fact all the laptops I have ever used closed completely.

Oh, and there is one more woe, I didnt mention. 'Flu = no game tonight (Sunday), which is a pisser as our Legend of the Five Rings game is turning into something even more special. The game is perfectly paced and pitched, and we are talking about more L5R adventures for the future.