Well, Thanksgiving was great but the day after kind of sucked. Turned on my computer and it didn't see any HD. Turns out it died sometime during the night when the computer wasn't on. This on a 5 week old HP computer I'd bought at Best Buy.

Why did I buy a computer at Best Buy? Well, my last two computers I bought online and were specially made for me. The first lasted 7 years and the second 5. That second one's motherboard fried itself during the night some 6 weeks ago for unknown reasons. Again, it was after I'd been on it the day before, turned it off to go to bed for the night, then in it's case, woke up to the smell of burning plastic.

So... I thought I'd buy a computer from a local place that could do quick and easy repairs if I had any hardware problems. And that'd be Best Buy, right? Right....? >.>

Turns out I was wrong. Mind you, I won't have to pay for the repairs to the HD, BUT... they don't replace broken HDs. Instead, they try to fix them first... and they don't fix them at the local Best Buy. So they're shipping it off to their fix-it center in Kansas City. Estimated time to repair/replace and ship it back is 4-5 weeks. <.< No replacement computer either, so I'm back on my laptop.

Ah well, live and learn.