Emergency

Everyone, say a quick prayer now for Liza. Apparently she was in Sweden yesterday for part of some all-star or pops-type holiday concert and collapsed. The headlines screamed that she collapsed on stage, but reading the articles, it's unclear if it happened on stage or just as she stepped off stage. Either way, whatever it is, it's serious enough that she's been rushed back to the states for medical care. Last March's trip may have proven to be well-timed after all. Here's hoping she makes another full recovery and brightens concert stages around the world for years to come.

After receiving this distressing news, I clicked over to JR for my daily check on the computers, and this time when I did the search for the Toshiba U305, it only pulled up the current ones, the upgraded Coming Soon one was nowhere to be found. All week I had been attempting to do research on it but when I entered the product number into Yahoo, it kept coming up with no results, whereas entering Toshiba U305-S7477 comes up with thousands of results. So, I have a feeling it was a custom job that got returned to the store and scanned into inventory and some lucky SOB got to buy it in the store. However, the S7477 was onsale for $100 off, which made it almost comprable to Circuit City's fradulent sale price, so I went ahead and ordered it and should have it by this time next week. I selected regular free shipping so that if there's any problem, that's one less fight I'll have. Fortunately, there's a 30 day return period, so if it's a total lemon when I get it, I can take it with to New York on the 28th and return it to the store. Plus, unlike Circuit City, they won't charge my card until it ships, so if they did make a mistake by offering it for sale, I won't have the drama of having to harass them to get my money back when they cancel the order, and this time I will keep the bag, it is the one I really wanted, I had just ordered the other one from Circuit City so that I'd get one at the same time as the computer and was actually a little annoyed that I had to get a 15.4" bag for a 13.3" computer, now it all works out. Anyways, start praying and I'll update as I find out more.