Stage area for the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert Jamsil, last August
*yawn* I'm back to late nights but I've also been pulling early mornings for the last little while. Today I'm waiting to get my new CD-RW/DVD drive. Even after changing hard drives and the CD drive I have now is fickle. It's a lot like me actually. It only likes to work when it's dark out. It stopped working again yesterday (not recognizing that a CD is in the drive) but it was fine when I got home last night. Today it's gone again and no amount of rebooting will get it to kick in.
So I decided to get my new drive yesterday. I went to a couple stores in the neighbourhood. The first guy was out of stock so I moved on up to the next place. I still have the feeling I was being swindled. It's the dirty feeling you get when you realize you spent a lot of money with a guy who was just trying to be a pain in the @$$. The second guy only had two CD-ROM drives on the shelf and he absolutely refused to give me a price on the cheaper one. For a few won more than I estimated the other one was, however, the expensive one was also a DVD player, which he quoted me as being 10,000 below the sticker price. It wasn't much of a discount but after a while, you sort of expect them to do something to encourage the sale. (Bargaining is as common here as it was 15 years ago in Canada, which is usually fun). So I agreed to buy it and I charged it to my card. (BTW foreign visa cards do work in Korea-- it's just a matter of finding Koreans who will believe you long enough to swipe it through their machine). With the sale run through, I double checked the specs and found out that the reason he was charging me less was because he was selling me a drive that had no DVD and was only 10X writing. The box of the drive I wanted clearly said 15X writing and no DVD. If I actually wanted the exact drive that he and I were both pointing to during the sale (you think that'd be a given), I'd have to cough up the extra 10 grand. BAH! I gave him the extra 10 grand in cash and now I will have to watch over his shoulder if he arrives to install it, to make sure he brings the right one, if he comes. I suspected he'd not show up but he did call to say he'd be late so I guess that means he is indeed on his way and should be here in 15 minutes.
When all is said and done, don't look for me... I'll be locked in a heated battle jockeying a Shadowcat online in Mechwarrior 4. The start of the third paragraph in the first link is basically what's been happening to me every night since the weekend.
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