2009, bad year, or worst year ever?

Since I haven't got my laptop back yet for the second time, I spent some time checking out desktops today. Priced out a system on HP and then found one on Best Buy's website that actually seemed somewhat palatable. Decided to go check it out and just price out and get a feel for what the monitor market is like these days. Got outside, my stupid leaky tire was totally flat. So I put on the spare, then tried to go to a gas station with free air to blow it up, of course their nozzle thingy is total crap, went to a different gas station and paid 75 cents to fill it up. Except I could hear it leaking when I was done which I didn't think had happened before. So not knowing how long it would stay inflated, it's on probation in the bed of my truck since I didn't want to go out to a flat tire before work tomorrow.

While I was doing that my mom called just to chat and I said I was busy and the phone call was about 30 seconds long.

Went to Best Buy the one PC I wanted to look at was hiding by the laptops. Looks pretty decent (especially with a nice 22" wide screen), except their floor model was literally on the floor and it was super filthy. Still undecided.

Went home, got to the door realized I left my phone in my truck, so had to walk back out to the parking lot, get my phone, went back inside. Flipped open my phone and it wasn't on, which was odd 'cause I was pretty sure I left it on. Power button does nothing. Plug into charger, no charger light. Take out battery, put it back it nothing. Argh! Looked up nearby Sprint stores and there is a full service one 9 miles away. It's about quarter to 7 and the website says they are open until 9, no mention of holiday hours. So I drive over there, missing a turn which lead me on a at least 5 minute detour, and of course they are closed.

Get home again, trying to find out from the Intertubes if it is likely just a fried battery (when I noticed phone was off the battery was quite warm) or if my phone (Sanyo M1) was toast. Didn't find anything other some people who said they had the same problem but no notes about getting it fixed. Found a replacement battery on Amazon for $5 bucks. Then was snooping around Sprint site and found the switch phone option, checked on the same forums to see if I should be able to switch to an old phone. Yep, should be possible and supposed to be no fee. So I get my most recent other phone, plug in the ESN, gives me next screen about setting up plan options, go to confirm, and it fails and says to call Customer Support (hmmm...). Next oldest phone steps up to bat, get's past that screen, I say ok confirm, what have I got to lose. Confirms switch, dropped text messaging and vision pack on plan which I'm sure is going to be nothing but billing issues but whatever. Gives me some ids for programming my phone, then a link to instructions which is another page with link to instructions which lists a bunch of Sanyo phones but not my SCP-6200.

Click on one of the other phones, follow those directions, nothing doing. Try to google it up, very sparse and shotgun spread search results, but after 20 minutes or so found instructions for some other phone hack which clued me in to how to get to the setup screen. Tried to match the data I was given with the options on the phone, reboot, still doesn't work. Although, possibly it takes up to 4 hours so maybe it will work tomorrow. But maybe not that I switched to that phone I can switch to my other backup phone. I'll try that next.

And technically this didn't happen in 2009, but my muffler is being held off of my driveshaft by a wire clothes hanger installed on Monday night, which is probably not going to work for long.