The moths came out of my wallet

[sffilk]

I had been considering buying a newer laptop to replace the one I presently have (it's a Sony Vaio VGN-A150 I bought used on ebay about 3 years ago). The one I'd bought on ebay came in damaged, and after a lot of haranguing, it got sent back today. I should get my refund in about, what, 2 weeks? Meantime, I had the money and decided to go to Worst Buy and see what they had as far as a newer laptop, hopefully something "open box" condition. It turns out there were a few open box computers, but none really caught my eye, even with the $50 off they were offering for the open box ones. The funny thing is, there was a laptop which was on or near the open box ones which turned out to be a clearance laptop, a discontinued or soon to be discontinued model, a Toshiba L755-S5308. Since I'm more Ferengi at times than filkferengi, I was not sure I'd go ahead and buy it until I talked to my brother-in-law who told me it would be a good computer for the price. I therefore bought the laptop, with a product key for Microsoft Office 2010 Home edition. I'll have to put Thunderbird on the puppy for e-mail purposes (or just access the e-mails through the AT&T Yahoo e-mail website). All said and done, with some more free software and Norton Anti-virus, I got out of Worst Buy at $569. I have the money to pay for it, due to my bonus from work. The rest of the bonus will stay in the bank until I pay my income taxes, at which point I'll do other things with it.

Happy Hanukkah!

UPDATE (December 22, 2011): I decided last night that since the only program I use in the Microsoft world is Outlook, and Outlook doesn't come with what I bought, I'll be returning the product key after work today.