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I didn’t post anything for the last 15 days as I was very busy and somehow depressed with the good and bad I’m facing, in short I bought a car and a laptop but with some action in the middle that is worth mentioning here.

The Car and The New Record

Everything started when my father convinced me that we need another car for the family and here I mean my parents and brothers family as I don’t even have a girlfriend to have a family of my own yet. As I don’t have any car yet I loved the idea and left everything to my father to chose, test and negotiate (action 1).

Finally after few days we decided on a used Dodge Grand Caravan 1996, 7 seats, in a very good condition and loaded with full options. It was my first time EVER buying something (or pay a share in it) and getting it registered to my name WITHOUT EVEN SEEING IT (action 2).

The car was mine on September 5th, things were superb, at last I have a car of my own now and I’m very excited about it, but this happiness didn’t last longer than 48 hours… I hit the huge caravan trying to park it in a small space (action 3) and guess when?… I was going to Apple store to check Mac prices (action 4).

Naturally my day was awful, I hated myself, I made a new record, hitting my first owned car within 48 hours of buying it (or even seeing it), even the Mac prices weren’t any good for me, the Apple store here in UAE is not an authorized branch or reseller, it only resells the machines it buys from the official UK agent after customising it to support Arabic, their prices are higher than the regular Apple prices so my Mac dream is now suspended until further notice.

I quit Mac’ing for a while and to be more realistic I started looking for a decent laptop that fulfill my needs and I can afford, after doing my homework I ended up choosing HP Pavilion dv5242ea, a laptop with fairly good configurations compared to its price (around $1000) which is an exact fit to my budget.

The Big Day, Sept 11th

What do you expect from such a day, a catastrophic day in history and so it was for me, my computer crashed, my car failed me in the middle of my way to buy the new laptop. While doing the required homework to chose my laptop, my PC decided to take a nap and it started it by disconnecting every USB peripherals attached to it including my cable modem, after a little check I ended up with everything working but the keyboard (action 5, please don’t ask how).

Naturally I went to the store to buy the laptop and a keyboard, on my way to the store, just on the red signal, in the middle of a 6 lanes road, my car stopped and also (like my PC) decided to take a nap, a very long one to the level that it’s still not working to the moment of this post (action 6).

After two hours waiting for the towing recovery and another one to take the car to the garage, I arrived home at 12:00Am without a laptop or a keyboard to spend the rest of the night without any computer or internet connection just trying to understand how bad things can go.

And Finally…

I bought the laptop the next day, using a taxi this time, my car is still in the repair without knowing what’s wrong with it yet, anyways I got over it and whatever happens happens, I guess I had enough of bad luck for this month and I hope the rest 15 days will be better.

Thank you for reading my depressing story of Crazy September and sorry for the delay in my posts, I missed the Blog Club post of the Art Community, I missed two parts of the Rails Project Story, I didn’t even publish a single post for over 15 days, I will cover this up soon, starting with the third part of the RPS coming tomorrow evening (if nothing bad crossed my way).