still squinting...

i picked up my laptop from compusmart yesterday. on thursday, the dude said on the phone that someone would likely call me before 11 am. i waited until 2 pm and finally called them. the technician says 'oh yeah. i had a hard time reaching you. the phone number here doesn't seem to work.'

FUH-UCK. did i not specifically call them up and tell them to change the errant phone number and verify on a subsequent call that the phone number was corrected?

anyway, as i suspected, the inverter needs replacing. $61 for the part, which actually isn't so bad. i'm just worried how much the labour costs will end up being...

they're supposed to call me when the part comes in -- they say monday or tuesday of next week. i suspect that i will have to call them on wednesday afternoon. *sigh*

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i'm not as sore as i'd expected to be after yesterday's two-hour critical mass ride. it was pretty big -- i'm sure they got at least 600 people out -- but i don't have an official count and it felt a bit smaller than last year. i'm tellin' ya: there were lots of beautiful people at the ride.

the crowd was big enough to take over cambie bridge entirely. the police actually helped us out with a car on either end guiding the route and blocking traffic. i don't remember them being there last year.

as usual, though, there were the angry honking motorists and the supportive honking motorists. sometimes it's hard to tell which category they fall into if you can't see their faces. generally, the supporters give out a series of short meep-meep-meeeeeeps while the disgruntled drivers lean meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnh. we had a passenger in one of those fucking stretch-UVs (you know what i'm talkin' about), lean out the window, waving and smiling at us.

some just have no appreciation for irony.