I'm feeling all Sunday afternoon-y at the moment: ie I have things to do, I just can't be bothered to do any of them.

The annoying thing at the moment is I ordered a little Ace laptop (in blue, since despite them saying they were going to do red, they don't) from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. After a while they emailed me to say they were having trouble getting hold of it, so couldn't give me an estimated date, but they would let me know.

So I waited for a bit, checked the forum and discovered that quite a few people had had trouble with Amazon sending them theirs, so I ordered one from laptopsdirect, which cost a bit more because of delivery and them changing 0.95% to use a credit card.

A few hours later I had an email from Amazon to say they had an estimated delivery date for it, and it was later than the date I was expecting to get it from laptopsdirect, so I thought I'd wait and see who managed it first.

This morning I had an email from laptopsdirect to say they'd despatched it and I could track the order after midnight. So I thought I'd wait till midnight just to double check and then cancel the Amazon one.

This afternoon I had an email from Amazon to say they'd despatched it.

I looked on both websites and you can only cancel before despatch. So Tuesday/Wednesday ish I will have two of the things and then have the fun of sending one back and waiting for a refund. Both payments will made August's credit card bill, I think, but the refund won't. So September's credit card bill will probably be a minus number.

I just know that if I'd done nothing I wouldn't have any.

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