So…we finally got a confirmed (theoretically) shipping date from Lenovo. May 10th.
But Rei, you ask, wasn’t the shipping date originally supposed to be April 6th, making this shipping date more than a month later than what they originally promised?
Yep. Real glad we paid for that two-day shipping.
On the one hand, it IS nice to at least finally know when my computer is being sent, so that I can stop wondering…but on the other hand, well, I think the other hand is fairly obvious. Also, on the other hand, Lenovo doesn’t treat their customers great — they didn’t even bother sending us a shipping delay notice, so if Briggs hadn’t been the type to check the site for shipping status every two hours, April 8th or so would have rolled around and we would have been wondering where the heck my package was. Apparently the bad customer service isn’t an anomaly — Briggs was trolling and posting on the Lenovo message boards and not only was everyone else having similar problems, one poster directed him to forums for previous Lenovo releases, informing him that the problems are the same, each time a new product comes out.
If there were a comparable product available, we would probably cancel our order and buy from someone else, but as it is, Lenovo holds the position of a hot chick who knows she can string guys along and treat them like crap and put them off about putting out because no one around has the rocking body she does. Regardless, some guys will decide she’s not worth it and hook up with a sweet, nerdy girl with a great personality and feel they came out the winner…and I understand some other customers are doing the same — one guy who was ordering one for himself before putting in a company order is pretty much decided on taking a step down in power for better customer service from another company.
But I WILL persevere.
Now that I’ve ranted endlessly about my computer and regurgitated what Briggs has related from his forum experiences, do I have anything else to talk about? Um. Briggs and I had salmon for dinner on Sunday. Briggs brought home enough salmon from the store that we were physically unable to finish it all, and my raccoons, Vincent and Violet, got the bit that was left over.
The weather keeps fluctuating and it’s driving me mad. I know this will sound silly and girly, but I’m having wardrobe difficulties. I was starting to get into my spring clothes and step away from my warmer winter wear, and a glance out the window at bright sun and blossom-speckled trees makes me reach for light-weight cottons and flowy dresses, but the temperature has been flipping back and forth between spring and winter…so I’m trying to get back into a California clothing mindset, wearing at least a couple layers when I go out.
My Design and Technology teacher hated all but one of my proposed logos for the project we are working on. Apparently, he likes things really simple, which is bad news for me. And even the stuff that was simple (a couple I liked pretty well) he didn’t like/get. *sighs dramatically with hand to forehead* I’m so misunderstood!
I am probably going to see Kick Ass this weekend. I’m pretty excited about it.
Briggs gave the cats their monthly dose of Advantage this morning.
Yeah, I’m out.
Yay! I named your raccoon. Now let’s just hope we got the gender roles right. So the weather here has been just a fickle. We will have a glorious 70 degree day, with sunshine and a light breeze, only to have hail the next day. Of course, for the last few weeks, it has been sunny all weekend, and rainy all week. Great fro people with normal schedules, but since I work weekends and have weekdays off, I don’t get to enjoy any of this good weather. Instead, I wake up about a half hour before the sun goes down, just as it is starting to get chilly out. Oh, and by the way, according to all of the TV shows and movies I’ve ever seen, the pretty girl only behaves to badly to people because deep down she is insecure. Not at all because she just enjoys stringing people along….
HAHA! Well I told my mom about V&V, and she said that based upon normal raccoon behaviors, yes, Vincent is most likely the male. My sexist view was correct!
I can’t believe you are feeding the raccoons. Awful creatures. They look adorable, but they’ll rip your face off if you get close enough. I mean, have you not seen Elf?