"I know, you know, there's no denying it, these are scary and uncertain economic times. Property values continue to plummet like a six-year-old out of a mylar balloon. Retirees are trading in their 401(k)s for a box of Special K. And the dollar has been slapped around so hard it's asked the euro for a safe word."
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report (11/11/09)
Yeah, that about sums it up.
I broke down and got an iPhone. I have had it with Verizon.
After Verizon dropped a call I was on yesterday for the third time in 5 minutes, I had had it. I was talking with a freelance illustrator for a job I need done, and he was not happy with me. I get dropped calls ALL the time, it's awful. It's at the point where I will avoid calling if/when I need to until the last possible minute. The only place I can use my phone and have a 50-60% chance of not getting dropped is right in the middle of my living room.
The bad:
- another credit inquiry on my record, 3 months after the other one for Verizon. Grrr.
- lots of money spent at Verizon to fix the problem and change phones, cancel the contract. Grrr.
- a higher monthly phone bill, which was the reason I switched in the first place.
The good:
- new phone
- no more dropped calls. (hopefully!)
- gonna sell my touch on one of those buy-back sites (which I've used before) so the start up cost for this is only going to end up being only about half.
- more pictures to post! (iPhone's camera is way better than the one i had)
If you have been a long time regular of my blog you know that my favorite movie of all time is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. My number one rule is I can't watch it til December 1st. I love the movie so much that I watch it at least 15 times throughout December. This way I save my relationship with my girlfriend, otherwise I would watch it more. I wore out my VHS tape of it and the best thing that could ever happen was Jen (my girlfriend) bought me the DVD. (god bless her) Hope you enjoy the clip. It also contains my favorite Christmas song as well from Ray Charles. Whats your favorite movie during Christmas time?
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My kid went to his dad's this morning. Flew from Seattle to SanFran at the asscrack of dawn 6am. Since this is one of the busiest travel days of the year, we signed him up for the Unaccompanied Minor service on Virgin America. (That's an additional $160, it ain't free.) My whole reasoning is that I wanted them to be accountable for him if anything happened on this busy travel day and when he comes back -- reroutes due to weather, bad plane, whatever. They introduced him to the airline attendant, and even made me set up a password for me, the kid, and the exhusband. And hey! He gets free movies, free tv, free food... cool, right?
THEY LOST HIM.
My ex called me after everything was over, and told me what happened. He had spent over an hour with the Virgin America people trying to find out what the hell happened to him, Aside from the fact that THEY DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE HE WAS LOST - no one knew, no one had an answer, no one even instigated any kind of search until he started yelling (and my ex can YELL) and he just happened to see my kid walk by, looking for him as well. Lots more details to the story than that, but basically you get the gist. Their general take on the incident... they can't do anything, you're just SOL if they lose your kid.
FUCKERS. VIRGIN AMERICAN CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES.*
*Bad pun strenuously intended.
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I've posted Ben Hecks creations many, many times and the man is just amazing. Yea, he's the guy that created the Xbox 360 and PS3 laptops among tons of other awesome gadgets. Thanks to The Engadget Show we learn a little more about the man.
