amy.stinson

I know I am not the only person who worries about whether something they have ordered will ever arrive. I am no exception.

In my last post I said the guy had stated he had mailed the RAM the week before. Not true. He had mailed the RAM on April 6. Apparently he waits a week and mails out all the RMA replacements on the Friday a week after he receives the returned merchandise. It also takes 7 whole days to get a first class mailing from Georgia, which is weird because I can get a first class mailing from Texas in 3 days.

The RAM arrived on April 14. I opened the package and found 2 new RAM chips in actual RAM chip plastic containers (something I had not gotten in the last 2 shipments and the RAM was name brand. The RAM was also the type that I knew would work in my machine. I shut down my machine, unplugged it, removed the battery and replaced my old RAM with the new RAM. The machine fired up like a champ and has been working flawlessly since.

March 1 – April 14 to get the RAM. I felt I was back in the ’80′s before FedEx changed the way we expect to receive mail and packages, but I am finally a satisfied customer with 2 gigs of RAM in my laptop!

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Well, getting new RAM for my laptop has gotten more interesting. The new RAM supposedly mailed on March 16th arrived on March 23rd. So I eagerly opened the package only to see that the RAM sent was not one, but two identical RAM pieces just like the one that caused my machine to cycle and hang on the POST. Wow, it’s not like I didn’t tell the company that. OK, the bad RAM in the first package might have actually been bad, but I did tell the guy the other RAM worked just fine.

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I am sitting here typing on my laptop that sits on a chiller purchased on Ebay, an AC adapter and battery purchased on Ebay, wearing my headset purchased on Ebay. Occasionally I wear the headphones I purchased on Ebay and sync my PDA with a cable purchased on Ebay. I really like Ebay for buying electronic gadgets. So I wasn’t concerned about buying memory for my laptop. I knew what I needed and did a buy now on Ebay with confidence on RAM that I knew would work in my laptop. That was March 1.

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Living on the southside of Indianapolis is always an interesting proposition. When we moved here from Columbus Indiana, the township’s school system was being run by an interim superintendent. A new superintendent named Dr. H. Douglas Williams (aka Doug Williams) was hired, provided with a 3 year contract, and the township moved forward.

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