{"id":10747,"date":"2013-08-20T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T01:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10747"},"modified":"2013-08-20T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T01:22:37","slug":"back-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10747","title":{"rendered":"Back on top"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My new laptop arrived today. Or maybe it didn’t. It’s hard to tell what Dell wants me to believe. <\/p>\n

I know it’s here — I’m physically typing this post on it right now — and customer support both called and e-mailed to tell me that it had been delivered. Then again, I never received any notice that it had been shipped prior to this, and when I log in at their website to check on the order, it still comes up as in production. <\/p>\n

Adding to the confusion, it actually says the order “is partially delivered,” whatever that’s supposed to mean. I joked over Twitter that I’d ordered Schrodinger’s laptop, both here and not here simultaneously, but as near as I can tell everything I ordered arrived. I followed up with Dell’s customer support, and I’m sure I’ll get a half dozen more phone calls and e-mails from one or two gentlemen in India before this is through — they have been persistent even when they haven’t been helpful — but so far I’m quite pleased with the computer that came by FedEx today.<\/p>\n

Then again, I was quite pleased with the last one, and that caught fire and quit working. If this doesn’t do that — and I continue to not be charged for those first two orders that didn’t get processed at all — I’ll be happy. The laptop’s a little weird, a little different (because I didn’t want to tempt fate and get the same exact model), but it’s shiny and new, which makes up for a lot of things. Living in the cloud is all well and good, but there are some things it’s just a lot easier to do on a laptop than on an iPad or iPhone. (Like purchase this laptop for one.) <\/p>\n

And yes, I know that’s like the epitome of first-world problems. You should have seen me the other day, when I couldn’t find the remote control to my air conditioner. The servants’ collective heads rolled for that! I joke; I don’t have servants. I do have a remote-controlled air conditioner, though, thank you very much, and woe betide the servant that comes between me and its temperature control. (It actually has a wifi option, too, but that’s apparently an added attachment we didn’t buy.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, all this is to say I have a new computer, and in the three hours or so that it’s been on thus far, it hasn’t caught fire or disappeared in a puff of Schrodinger logic.<\/p>\n

My back<\/i>, on the other, was kind of terrible today, although this I think was a pulled muscle — probably connected to but not exactly the same thing that happened to me last week. I think this because it’s on the opposite side, and I was pretty much fine until I bent a weird way in the shower this morning, and also because it seems to be getting a little better this evening. As always, walking helps, even when walking at first makes you want to cry, is the very thing that makes it feel worst, and so I went to work. (Also, while I have some sick days left, I neither want nor really can<\/i> use them so soon after using two last week.) <\/p>\n

Honestly, I don’t want to whine about my bad back, particularly as it does seem to be getting better this evening. I’m getting some comfort out of listening to David Mitchell’s Back Story<\/i><\/a> on audio book (in small part about his own bad back). And I did I mention I have a new computer that hasn’t caught fire? Things really are<\/i> looking up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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