It's Snowing and I have a Lemon!!!

Woke up this morning and saw it was raining. No big deal, but this rain was falling slowly. Weird.... As the day progressed, the rain got lighter and fluffier. By the time I got home, the housing complex look like a fairy land with all the lights and frosted icing everywhere.

I went to pick up the mail from our new apartment for the first time today. I found a key in the box. Apparently I had a parcel, and this key was to open the parcel locker. So I opened it up and inside was a box of cookies from the Toyota people. Not knowing what to do next, I tried to remove the key, but it wouldn't come out. After fiddling around with it for a while, I realized that I was probably supposed to leave it there for the postie to collect later.

After work, I went off to check out an Aikido dojo not far from work. Not far in the US means 15-20km. Not having the GPS, I had to rely upon a set of printed out instructions. Unfortunately, one of the key turns was at a dark obscure intersection. By the time I realized I had taken the wrong turn I was heading back the way I came. Fortunately, it was in an area I had been to recently, and the dojo was close to the junction of two interstate highways. So long as I didn't cross over either of the highways I should be able to find it. The dojo was small, neat and freezing, just like the old one back home.


The saga of the TV continues... We watched the Oscars the other night, and for the whole 3 hours, the problem didn't occur. The next day the technician came out and the problem didn't occur, typical. He ran some diagnostics and couldn't find much wrong apart from some obscure factory setting. But since we couldn't reproduce the problem he left. I get home that night and within 30 minutes the problem is back.... Grrrr... Fine, back on the phone to call up the service desk to get the tech to come back out again. Two days later, we expect his call and he doesn't call. The service desk acknowledged the tech was scheduled after 15 minutes of chasing people around, and he will be calling tomorrow.

Pearl is all ready to make use of the 30 day return policy, which is probably what the last person did when they returned it. We were going to chuck it in and make use of CostCo's very liberal return policy where there is no time limit on returns. Unfortunately they have closed this loop hole to stop people getting their "free TV upgrade". This has been reduced to a mere 90 days and you get a 2 year service plan with it as well. So, we'll see if we can't get this fixed one last time, then we'll give up and head down to CostCo in a couple of weeks when there is a special on the Sony LCDs.

View more pictures of the snow here