April 5, 2006

Today the power company came by. They apparently were checking the gages/counters on the houses around my neighborhood. This isn't uncommon. So the dude knocks on the door and lets me know that they're going to turn the power off for a second. I said ok and they did their job. The power was back on in like 2 minutes.

So I go to my room and turn my computer back on. I try to turn my monitor on also and nothing happened. My thought at that moment, "Ah Sh*t! Please turn on! Please!". So I checked the connection hoping that something came loose. Nope. That's when I noticed that the little green led light on the monitor's ac adapter wasn't on. Even though my monitor didn't turn on, this little fact made me feel slightly better. Now my thought was, "ok so the light isn't on, hopefully just the ac adapter was damaged and not my monitor". Seems logical enough right? I hope. I won't know for sure until I get another adapter and try it out. So I started going down the list of things to do:

1. Check the warranty
2. Check online
3. Call LG
4. Check CompUSA

Like always warranties are for sh*t, so that option was gone. I checked online at various places and none of them had the adapter I need. I even checked the LG sites and can you believe there isn't an accessories page to buy this crap online?! So I decided to call them up. I got through incredible fast and actually spoke to someone who had a regular american accent. That just surprised me because everyone knows that most of these jobs have been outsourced. Anyway, so of course they have the adapter, but they don't ship to Puerto Rico. Isn't that just lovely? Doesn't that just top my day off? :)

There are businesses that exclude PR. Why? Well, their excuse is that our physical credit card address isn't in the continental United States so therefore they can't ship here. Nevermind the fact that we use the same currency, the same credit card companies and the same Unites States Post Office...they're still unable to do business with PR. Maybe it has something to do with trade, I don't know, but I still don't understand it. It's the same deal with some cheap airline websites. Some exclude PR because of the reason mentioned above, yet others somehow are able to do business with us. Weird, huh?

So, now I'm left with going to CompUSA to see if they have an equivalent to my adapter. If not, then I'll have to figure out a 5th option. Ugh...I only have myself to blame for not turning my computer off, but I guess this would've happened eventually because of PR's famous power surges/outages.