{"id":3885,"date":"2006-07-15T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2021-01-12T23:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T04:59:16","slug":"successful-day-as-a-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Successful day as a consumer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, there&#8217;s a lot of email backed up in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartnet-works.com\/\">Smart Networks<\/a> account.  Clearly I need to start making weekly time to get back on the horse for this.  As it is, I&#8217;m working OT at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidweb.com\/\">LiquidWeb<\/a> tomorrow, so tonight ended up being the only time.<\/p>\n<p>Buying used has been a success today!  I have scored:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rd=1&amp;item=130007474783&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&amp;ih=003\">USB-to-mini-USB 5-pin cable<\/a> for my Motorola Razr.(got sick of borrowing the one from Benny&#8217;s Palm)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rd=1&amp;item=180005646077&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&amp;ih=008\">512 MB of RAM<\/a> for my iBook<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rd=1&amp;item=140005910171&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&amp;ih=004\">Sony PS2<\/a>, so that I can play games and DVD&#8217;s in my office.  Now all I need to do is fix the VCR part of the TV\/VCR combo, and I&#8217;ll be all set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><lj user=\"benniferus\"> also scored in the upgrade-what-you&#8217;ve-already-got category by purchasing an LED upgrade kit for her mini Mag light.  I&#8217;m going to see how hers works out, then will likely purchase another from ThinkGeek.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>All of the money used to purchase this was gotten from selling off things that I don&#8217;t need to those that will find a use for them.  This makes me unspeakably happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, there&#8217;s a lot of email backed up in my Smart Networks account. Clearly I need to start making weekly time to get back on the horse for this. As it is, I&#8217;m working OT at LiquidWeb tomorrow, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[32,34],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-10F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}