![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xt1meThat'll teach me to get something fun for myself.
I got myself a VR headset.
Because I'm a grown up now & I can have fun if I want to.
But I don't know if it was worth it.
First I had a hell of a time just trying to get the thing delivered.
It wouldn't accept my work address for some reason & kept putting my order on hold. Even after I called up & got the service desk to update the address.
I eventually just put the current home address figuring that when it bounced (because there was no way I was going to be there to sign for it) I'll just pick it up at the post office depot or something.
Lucky they had tracking so I could see when it was delivered.
I was a bit puzzled when it said it had been "delivered to a safe area" but I figured maybe my neighbor was home or something.
Nope.
They left it, in the rain, by my front door.
Whatever, I had it finally.
But then, when I was trying to install the software my internet went down.
I had to call the internet provider as my computer kept insisting that it was connecting fine just none of my web pages would open.
The internet provider said it looked like there was a fault & they'd send someone out. It could take up to 5 working days.
The thing is the internet seems to be intermittent so it was fine the next day.
So, hoping the internet would stay on long enough to download the software I decided to start.
It took hours to download & before it finished it just stopped.
I had to restart my computer twice.
Then once it was finally downloaded it said there was an error & to download it again.
Ahhhh!
the next day I tried again.
I finally got it working & then I had to plug everything in.
But that wasn't the end!
The cables would only go in the same slot my monitor was working from.
(If you remember I had issues already w/ the monitor since my old one only had VGA cable & my new compute didn't have a VGA slot)
So I check all the slots I had on both the monitor & the computer & found I could probably run the monitor from a HDMI cable instead.
Now I could have waited until I was back at work & seeing if there was any unused cables around. There usually is.
But I was so annoyed that this was taking so long I just drove to the nearest shopping center & just bought one.
I could have probably got it for cheaper somewhere else but I was too fed up to shop around in the freezing rain.
So now, I have finally got it working.
It is a lot of fun though.
I got myself a VR headset.
Because I'm a grown up now & I can have fun if I want to.
But I don't know if it was worth it.
First I had a hell of a time just trying to get the thing delivered.
It wouldn't accept my work address for some reason & kept putting my order on hold. Even after I called up & got the service desk to update the address.
I eventually just put the current home address figuring that when it bounced (because there was no way I was going to be there to sign for it) I'll just pick it up at the post office depot or something.
Lucky they had tracking so I could see when it was delivered.
I was a bit puzzled when it said it had been "delivered to a safe area" but I figured maybe my neighbor was home or something.
Nope.
They left it, in the rain, by my front door.
Whatever, I had it finally.
But then, when I was trying to install the software my internet went down.
I had to call the internet provider as my computer kept insisting that it was connecting fine just none of my web pages would open.
The internet provider said it looked like there was a fault & they'd send someone out. It could take up to 5 working days.
The thing is the internet seems to be intermittent so it was fine the next day.
So, hoping the internet would stay on long enough to download the software I decided to start.
It took hours to download & before it finished it just stopped.
I had to restart my computer twice.
Then once it was finally downloaded it said there was an error & to download it again.
Ahhhh!
the next day I tried again.
I finally got it working & then I had to plug everything in.
But that wasn't the end!
The cables would only go in the same slot my monitor was working from.
(If you remember I had issues already w/ the monitor since my old one only had VGA cable & my new compute didn't have a VGA slot)
So I check all the slots I had on both the monitor & the computer & found I could probably run the monitor from a HDMI cable instead.
Now I could have waited until I was back at work & seeing if there was any unused cables around. There usually is.
But I was so annoyed that this was taking so long I just drove to the nearest shopping center & just bought one.
I could have probably got it for cheaper somewhere else but I was too fed up to shop around in the freezing rain.
So now, I have finally got it working.
It is a lot of fun though.
