Oh I am very on the "if there's a question toss it out" side. Possibly because so much of y food DOES go bad, if I'm gone a lot.

askye, if you're around - does Best Buy do any sort of price matching? In a Fry's ad, I found a laptop that appears to be the same as the one I bought last night, for abt $50 less. I haven't opened the box yet, but I'd rather not have to mess with a return, or have to go to Fry's which is further from home & work and just a generally unpleasant place. Plus, I liked the sales guy I had last night, who both answered my questions and geeked out about Joss with me, so I'd hate for there to be any negative repercussions on his quotas or whatever. But 50 bucks is 50 bucks.

Best buy does price match. I'm pretty sure Frys is one match to They are some weird stores we don't. But retroactive price matching is usually up to the store and the store manager. You can also call and see if they will.

Best buy can be weird in that there are some rules or procedures that can't be bent and other things that are up to the store general manager.

Spoiled food really grosses me out. I throw stuff out if there's even a chance it's not good.

Just got an email from a student saying that he has mono, but that he'll try to come to class anyway. I'm assuming the health center told him that he's not contagious anymore.

I wouldn't assume that. Can you contact the health center?

The health center probably can't give out info because of HIPAA. But it would be worth asking the student if the health center told him he isn't contagious.

Yeah, HIPAA probably trumps "I'm the guy's professor, I'd like to know if I'm allowing contagion into my classroom."

Hil, they shouldn't give you any info about your student, but I would ask the student if he's been cleared to return to class.

Thanks, askye. On further digging about, it looks like the one I bought might be a better processor. I'll double-check when I get home and go from there.

It ever hurts to ask about price matching, the big things they don't price match are third party vendors on sites like Amazon and weird discount websites. There's something like eastcoastvs.com that has super low prices and that's one we get asked about (and we don't discount).

If you're in the store and ask there are multiple ways for assocaites to check for price matching.

But with some things like computers it looks almost the sam ebut then you look and there are small differneces or the model numbers are different. Best Buy gets lots of Exclusive at Best Buy (for small things it's stuff in BB Blue), but there are other stores that get things only for them - like shopping channels will get laptops with colored cases, but you dont' see that often in stores.