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Exhorbitant spending.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Sep 1, 2014
I had a bit of a brain fart today, and spent a huge amount of money, mostly on eBay. 
>blush>
It all started when North-East Peripherals told me the 17" laptop I had asked them to fix was unrepairable. (the "on-board power invertor" had died, and that would mean replacing the motherboard which would cost more than a new laptop... 
) They charged me £25 for looking at it, and I got them to give me the hard drive and power supply back, and told them to scrap the rest for spares. 
Since I had just effectively paid £25 for a power supply, I had a look on eBay. I had budgeted £100 for the repair, and I was very happy to spot a 3.2GHz 17" laptop going for £75! The catch? It was missing its power supply. 
If I'd stopped there all would have been fine, but while I was browsing I happened to spot a "new listing" of a Microsoft Surface RT tablet, with 64GB RAM, an extra 64GB SD card, keyboard *and* case at a "Buy it now" price of £170, inc. postage. I couldn't resist. 
It *was* about £100 below the going rate, and was described as "like new". 
Other than all that, there's not much to report. I had the District Gnurse in for over an hour earlier... 
I'm sort of listening to "Horizon" at the moment. I watched "Doctor Who Extra" and last week's "New Tricks" earlier, and I plan to watch this week's "New Tricks" followed by "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" in about 20 minutes. 
I'm typing this early because I need to go to bed early (Diabetic Clinic in the morning) and probably won't get round to firing up the computer again later. 
Exhorbitant spending.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 1, 2014
And I just got a SPAM email entitled "PEET get tablets today!" 
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