jcarr492 Posted November 25, 2005 Posted November 25, 2005 Wow. What can I say? Here I sit after waking up from a 2hr nap. I got home this morning at 9am..having been awake for exactly 27hrs straight. UGH..how do doctors do it? lol. I'm so utterly exhausted and sore in places I never knew existed. BUT...I got my emachine and I got my mp3 player. I got to the Victoria Texas BB at 9pm. Me, dh and my sis in law were the very first to arrive. We were just about to leave to head to walgreens when a car came whipping around the corner. So we ended up getting out and setting up for the night. I was #3 in line. The other car was a brother and sister team...very nice and fun!!! So they were #1 and 2 and then me, my sis in law and my hubby. Then the fun began. One by one everyone started coming in 10 min intervals. You can tell they werent' prepared to stay when they pulled up and asked if we were spending the night then running home to drop off kids and such and racing back. Within 2hrs, there were 40+ people in line. OH, and at 10pm, our local news Channel 25 showed up...to interview us and film us!!! We were all psyched and waving and such. I had my sleeping bag and pillow and cover and I was all waving and hyped. I even got out and took some digital pics of our line,I will post as soon as I recover. Everyone was really nice and we watched out for each other..we all let each other leave to drive to a store or for food or to walmart to buy a blanket and such or stretch legs. It was really nice. Now i don't know how next year will go..cause by the time the store opened and we were in the checkout line..there were a LOT of Ticked off people that didn't get tickets. But they didn't arrive till like 3am. So next year may be worse. It was a rough night by "camping out" on sidewalks...but I lived thru it. It was an experience I'll never forget. OH..and the best thing??? After waiting in the checkout line for 2hrs...when i finally got to the front, it was my turn to go up...there was a geek squad team before the checkout...which I THOUGHT were gonna try one more time to sell me the set up package for 119.00..but nope. They asked me to sign and address a "preset up" package invoice. I was like, "whats that mean" since I was by then only operating on one brain cell. then he tells me that since they didn't sell enough of the "geek squad" pakages, they had pre set up some of the emachines with norton anti virus and such and I get mine already pre setup for FREE. HECK YEAH I'm taking it!! But my sis in law behind just got a regular emachine and they didn't offer her a preset up one. Were they just skipping around with the people to make it fair? So, what EXACTLY do you get on the preset up emachine then?? Cause I'm so brain fried I don't know and want to know what they did to the computer...thanks!
Nautical Posted November 25, 2005 Posted November 25, 2005 pre installed on an emachine....not much. You should try Open Office for word processor, power point, etc. Its FREE and works just as well as microsoft office! http://www.openoffice.org/ Just download and install
blessedmama Posted November 25, 2005 Posted November 25, 2005 Hey! I'm from Victoria, Texas too. I went to BB later just to walk around but the lines were so incredible I walked out and that was at about 5:30. I went to Walmart where a little old lady was shoved to the ground and scratched while trying to get a computer. We successfully help her get it but Walmart was not the place to be if you wanted help. Just like so many other ppl have stated I was told a variety of places to get the same items. Not sure if anyone REALLY knew where things were going to be. I was successful at getting all I went for. Yay!
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