The Rebates in the Mail

No, there’s no punctuation error in my subject title. About the most exciting thing I’ve done in the last few days is get some mail-in rebates sent in that had been languishing. Late last week right before I came back to Pennsylvania I sent in my $199 mail-in rebate for my iPod. I finally set up my new Canon photo/document printer on Tuesday (after realizing I didn’t have a USB cable on Monday, I had to make two trips to Best Buy on Tuesday to get one that was long enough — a 16′ cable for $47 -[wince]- …), and it seems to work well, though I haven’t printed out a photo just yet. But with that I sent in my $100 mail-in rebate for the printer yesterday. And then yesterday I finally got around to installing 2x1GB of RAM into my laptop, replacing the 2x512MB that originally came with it (I plan on selling the 2x512MB sticks on eBay, next week maybe?), meaning that today I could send in my two $20 mail-in rebates to Crucial for the RAM. So hopefully in about 6-8 weeks I’ll suddenly be $339 richer. That’ll help remove some of the pain from the credit card bill that’s due at the end of this month… And then I’m hoping to get my act together and put my old 15″ G4 PowerBook up for sale on eBay next week. I’ll be happy if I can get close to $700 for it, but I think I can get a bit more than that. That’ll be very friendly to my bank account as well.
Well, I really didn’t have much more to say in this post, and that’s probably good, because I’ve gotta quick pack a few things in preparation for my weekend trip to Dallas for the Grad Resources leaders conference, and then get a long nap in. I’m excited about the conference, but not very thrilled with needing to hit the road from State College at 4:30am so I can make it to Harrisburg in time for my 7:30am flight (I like to get to airports early enough that I don’t have to be frantic). And with the remnants of Tropical Depression Erin dumping heaps of rain in Texas through the weekend, hopefully that won’t disrupt my flights too much. At least I’ll be outta there well before Hurricane [Howard] Dean gets into the western Gulf of Mexico. Yeeaaaaaargh!