The ongoing gripe-fest about broken Photoshop

What an aggravating day! First, I called Adobe Customer Support for help with my photoshop problem (crashing every time I try to open an image file). I was willing to pay the $39, but no way, no support for me. Why? My Adobe Creative Suite 2 is toooooooo old!!! I was instructed to use the online forum to seek help. (Been there, nothing there, guess I could write something and wait, and wait...) Then I thought, well, maybe I should spring for a more recent version, so I called the ASU computer store and was told I could get CS5 for only $169 if I bring a current class schedule, or if I don't have one but have an ASU ID card ("Sun" card), I can use it one time only, under the policy of being nice to friends/supporters of ASU. Wheeee!

So, at midday, sun glaring, I hit the highway, paid $3 to park (feeling sorrowful not to be in the club any more, no parking permit, no class, out in the cold), trudged in the blazing sun to the computer store, and was told I can't have it without a current schedule. The guy I talked to on the phone was naturally gone for the day. Did I get his name? No, damn it, I am not in the habit of asking everybody's name when I have no clue there will be "issues." However, for an extra $30, I could buy it without a class schedule ($199). Granted, $30 isn't that much, and $199 is still a bargain, but I stood there wavering, resisting, thinking about that course I really want to enroll in but I'm trying to be sensible. Let's see, spend $2000 to save $30? Sure, that's rational. But I still might give in; it's not too late. (The employee even said I can enroll, print out a schedule, then withdraw! Heck, I might want to do that anyhow after attending the first class.) So, I stood there like a donkey starving between two haystacks unable to decide what to do. Finally, I accepted her offer to hold it for me for a week (they disappear like hotcakes).

Then I remembered I'm enrolled in a 1-credit yoga class at the community college! Okay, I call the bookstore there. It's not in the store, but it's available for online order, $199.95. Hmmm, that sounds better than another broiling trek to ASU. I'll eat lunch and think about it.

Oh, this is so boring! Why are you reading this?