Day 213: Customer service bliss!

I woke up intent on being lazy, and that's exactly what I did.

I slept in, and when I woke up I immediately camped out on the couch.

I started flipping through the channels and found my college team's football game... SCORE! I had enough ammo to tide me over in relaxation mode for a few hours.

They did not disappoint, crushing the other team. But of course I couldn't just sit there idly I had to do some research on a computer.

I've been avoiding buying a Mac but unfortunately I think I'm going to have to cave in.

They have the best consumer video editing software I can find and the closest thing to it in the PC world would require me to buy a new computer to support it and the software would be a gamble.

So I decide to jet off to the store after the game is over.

Either it was slow when I walked in, or I had a determined look in my eye, because I've never been given such great service.

I immediately ran into the guy who offered to 'translate' for me a few weeks ago who quickly ran to grab the guy I didn't need to translate to.

We talked about the Mac computers while another guy listened in (I guess there was some sort of review situation going on), he seemed a little flustered when I looked right at him when he interrupted to explain something in greater detail.

When I walked up to purchase the Mac one of the first guys I talked to a few weeks ago happened to walk by and say 'hey, so what did you end up buying?'

I had no idea I had such power. People I've worked with for years sometimes don't recognize me, what's going on with the guys in the store?

Then I went back to a conversation I had with the wine guy. He said all the techy geeks were probably so stunned to have a cute girl standing there speaking their language and giving them the time of day they were mesmerized.

Maybe so? I suppose it didn't hurt, because again... I've never had such great service, normally they just ignore me.

When I got home I tried to set up my wireless connection and that's the point I realized I'm pretty much an idiot.

I managed to screw up the existing connection to my current computer and now I was stuck. I couldn't do any research on either computer to try to figure out what went wrong.

So I called the experts for some more customer service. I ended up talking to a lovely girl in the Philippines who talked me through the entire process.

Basically I spent my entire Saturday night on the phone with tech support, where has my life gone?

Maybe it's gone where it needs to be, relaxed and at home. Nah, forget that! I need to live while I'm still able to live!

I know being 40 doesn't mean I'm dead, but there is something about it that really bothers me.

It's like I'm converting to a new religion.

Somehow the thought of turning 40 while dating someone in their 30's kind of weirds me out. I'm not sure why exactly a few years age difference is all it is, but it seems like so much more than that.

I think it's that I don't want them to see me getting old and 40 seems old.

Then again I'm not exactly sure I want to date someone who is in their 40's so I guess I'm kind of stuck in this sort of age purgatory.