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Let's see... I can spend $600 to get my laptop back into prime operating condition, or almost twice as much for a slightly upgraded unit...
 
I spent $45 to ship mine back to ASUS to have them merely reinstall windows and return it. Apparently the genius from whatever 3rd world country I was talking to told them I had tried rebooting 4 times, rather than reinstalling it. Pay some people with intelligence.

The tablet life is working out though.
 
Meet Chuck, the evil chocolate Easter bunny.
 

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My friend owed me some money. She gave me a check and cash, I like paper money but hate change. So, I looked at the $2 in quarters and decided it was time to go to the Coinstar machine and cash in. I had $41.21 built up! I got an Amazon gift card number and added it to my account.

When I got home and walked over to my desk I realized I never put the $2 she gave me in my jar, so I already have coins sitting around again.
 
My friend had a coin jar. He cashed it in a coin-star and bought a Playstation 3 with it.

I read of a man a few years ago who saved change for decades in bottles around his house and eventually had enough to buy a new Dodge Ram(back when it was still Dodge, lol).
 
I save my change, mostly because I hate to carry it in my pocket. In this day of debit card use it takes much longer for the jug to accumulate a lot of dollars. I still save a couple of hundred or so a year. It's like finding money when I cash it in ever few years.
 
A software engineer, a hardware engineer and a department manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside.

The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?

"I know," said the department manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."

"No, no," said the hardware engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it and we can be on our way."

"Well," said the software engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
 
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