Karma’s a …

You know, karma’s a real b****.

Before I went home over Labor Day weekend, I knew that I needed an oil change.  I couldn’t remember if I needed a tire rotation or not.  I went in, they offered free rotations, so I took them up on it.  They get the tires off, and they’re at the wear indicators (which means I wouldn’t pass inspection for license renewal).  So I get 4 new shoes for my baby.

After that, I watched the Apple announcement for the new iPod lineup, thinking that with this, I could pickup a recent model on the cheap.  A week later, my 2nd generation nano (we’re on the 6th now) stops putting out sound through the headphones.

I left for home worried about losing power/internet at my house, and as such, my email.  It happens, so I get my VPS (which turns out to be not such a bad thing).

This past week, I ask my PC shop what would be a decent upgrade to help me with backing up/converting my Blu-Ray and DVD collection.  The answer – more memory (short of getting a new processor at $300).  Not even 24 hours later – my memory fries.

Of course, I’m writing this after I dropped more money on a new power supply, motherboard, hard drive, and cpu thinking one of those was the issue.  Don’t forget the money I’ve paid to my shop to attempt to diagnose the problem.

Yeesh, I’m due for some good karma here.  As soon as I picked up a few extra bucks after selling some of my stuff on ebay, all this other stuff crops up.  Just goes to show you that whenever you try to get ahead, life smacks you back down.

So, I’ll go pickup my system tomorrow, with some “temporary” memory until the new sticks I ordered from Newegg get here.  Then hope I can re-sell the old stuff on eBay for a few bucks.

Karma’s a real bitch sometimes…