Actually, it isn’t just her, that Peter dude is on my list as well.

I had to get home early today so I could FedEx Mariko her new cell phone. She bought a pair on the family plan, one for her and one for Peter. She got a Razr, very same phone that I’ve wanted and that everyone but me is getting.

Then I tried to fix her dumb Dell laptop. Buy a Mac, I said, but does she listen? I wasted close to an hour on Dell’s web site only to get a useless email suggestion back. Get a new power adapter they said. Well, in my question I said I JUST GOT A NEW POWER ADAPTER. I called Dell support only to encounter a stupid voice recognition system that had me enter a 10-digit number several times only to decide to HANG UP ON ME. I gave up.

Then, when I was about to eat dinner, Mariko sent me a fax that needed Peter’s signature. Actually, it was an eight page fax that needed his signature on each page. Since the dude goes to sleep at 9PM and I have obligations until 9 or 10PM for the next couple of days, I had to delay eating to get the papers printed and signed. One of the pages was legal size so that meant I had to head back to Kinko’s to print it out. I got up to the Harrises in time to get Peter to sign it and off he was to bed. Off I was to eat dinner.

Oh, and I spent a lot of time getting the web server working, staying up until 1AM last night and then working on it early this morning. Come to think of it, Mariko’s friends are a large pain in my ass, too.