Okay, as a side note?

I'm dying to know why Kristen doesn't have time to read her torso. Why not? What's written there? Do you have to use a mirror, and if so, does the writing appear backwards?

This is so embarassing. It's from something I saw on TV. But I'll be damned if I can remember what show.

Okay, it's almost noon and I'm starving. I'm going to Taco Bell.

I'll email Steven when I get back and let him know you guys aren't interested so we're passing on the offer.

ita, did you see my earlier post about taking out the explicit closes?

I had not, and now have, Kristen, so I'll yank them in a little and report back here when I have.

Huh.

So Steven might be able to extend the offer. [ETA: Apparently, his reason for the deadline was the RAM prices being all over the place and him having a solid price from his supplier that had an expiration date.]

He's also willing to throw in another 512 MB of RAM and another hard drive.

This is unexpected.

ETA: Cool, ita! I just had this idea based on something that someone, Rob maybe, said about closing the connections. I'm not actually sure I can articulate it but it makes sense in my brain, if that makes you feel any better.

Kristen, please don't take offense -- Steven's been great to us, I know -- but he's starting to sound like a used car salesman.

t edited to add I mean he should just make us his best offer. I don't think we should have to haggle or threaten to walk.

he's starting to sound like a used car salesman.

Huh. I don't think so. I'd grateful he might be able to extend the offer.

Eh. I sort of suspected he might want to extend the deadline when I sent off the email. I wasn't expecting more hardware. Makes me wish FG had an extra couple of hundred dollars a month to throw around.

Thing is, I don't know that we need a bigger hard drive or memory. That wasn't the issue. I'd rather he just lower the price on his original offer. Although I realize that's not on the table.