because everyone needs their dan miller
Was looking around, and noticed that in the 4th quarter of last year (well, really the last 2 months – from 10/29 to 12/31) I biked 562.8 miles (and ran that final backwards 0.8 miles)
563.6 miles over 62 days is 9.09 miles every day. Subtracting the 9 Sundays that I did not run it’s 10.63 miles per day. And I actually only worked out 36 of those days, for an average of 15.66 miles per workout day.
As first noted here and then expounded upon here, here, here, here and here I am in the middle of snagging a free laptop.
Just because my last post (containing the pic of my first arrived rebate check) in this vein was on October 1st, I do not want you to think that all is not well in laptop-land!
The checks have been trickling in, and just before Christmas I received (what I thought was) my last bunch of checks. With the holidays and all, I did not get around to entering them into my handy-dandy spreadsheet until today, when I found that I am still down 1 rebate! I checked it online and it says Invalid due to missing confirmation email (the lamest excuse of all the ones I received)
I emailed them just now and expect to have it validated shortly. The weird thing is that my spreadsheet says that it was validated 9/25/2007. So either CA validated it and then invalidated it (wouldn’t put it past ‘em) or I put the wrong entry in my spreadsheet and never actually re-validated this one. I may get screwed because it’s been so long since the submission, but I will keep at it.
My initial expense for this deal was $1,256.49. With the 57 rebates I have received, I have gotten back $1,620 (and hope to receive an additional $15 shortly). I also eBayed the 2 printers and got $69.32 between the 2 of them (after subtracting eBay and Paypal fees and actual shipping costs). I keep meaning to put the software up there but the market isn’t that great for them (especially since this is the 2007 stuff and the 2008 stuff is now out)
I aim to trade the laptop for a riding lawnmower.
All in all – the best deal ever!!! (so far)