More memory

It finally arrived! The memory I ordered locally and paid 50% extra for because they promised it in 10 days, arrived after nearly 5 weeks. First it was the fact that the memory wasn’t in stock in Singapore (10 days lost). Then it was that it was raining in Kolkata (7 days lost). I have no idea about the next week and a half, but when I went back, the technician was in Kolkata picking it up and would be back tomorrow. He arrived a week later. The final insult was that I’d ordered HP RAM, giving the part number, so that I’d be sure it would fit, when in fact, they supplied me with generic RAM. That should have been half the price and if they’d told me that the reason other memory I saw didn’t fit was because of the difference between DDR and DDR2 types, I probably could have bought it in Thimphu, same day, lower cost.

I guess I should be happy that I can now open a large powerpoint file that I’ve been wanting to look at for months now. Windows is useable and Linux is flying. But I’m still pissed that they wasted so much of my time and money (Marie’s back and could have brought me the cheaper unit from France in time) and don’t seem to be at all sorry.