gonzai | We're Trying To Help The Economy!

Leastways, we tried. Mom and I trooped off to the store yesterday with the intention of buying two expensive durable goods - a dishwasher and a netbook or laptop. (Our 25yo dishwasher has been cranky the last 6 months and no amount of tweaking has convinced it to actually clean something.) We left with batteries and season 2 of Terminator. Um, yeah. We did in fact succeed in buying a dishwasher, but it'll be at least two weeks before they deliver it because they're backed up with deliveries. On the portable computer front, I have admittedly very precise qualifications, which eliminated all the laptops and all but a few netbooks. The netbook I wanted was advertised on sale for a very reasonable price. But the netbook was never actually distributed to stores in the mid-Atlantic area and the few in stock sold out immediately. No stores were willing to ship one to the Baltimore area. So now I'm sitting on a raincheck for a model they may or may not restock. Yippee. (Yes, I'm watching Ebay, Craigslist and Amazon like a hawk, but the sledding has been slow.)

We tried, we did.