A variety of rants
I’m about ready to kill someone this afternoon. We were supposed to switch over our phone/cable/internet service to a new provider today. They sent someone out to test the line on Tuesday and discovered that, oops, we were out of range for the new Uverse (AT&T…why protect their stupidity?) so I told them, “If I’m out of range for the cable and internet, then just go ahead and cancel the entire thing since my current service is also a bundled option”. Well, lo and behold, I come home from work today to discover that these morons from AT&T came out to the house while nobody was even home and switched over my phone service to them anyway!!! Can you believe the nerve? Mind you, I’m not thrilled with our current service and the AT&T plan was going to offer faster internet, more cable channels (like LOGO which we currently don’t get) but I’m not so unhappy with my current service that I would cancel the phone and pay a higher rate for unbundling just so I could go with AT&T! So I’ve spent the last half hour on the phone with both companies trying to get switched back over and still keep my same phone number. Just unbelievable! I have said it before and I’ll say it again, I HATE corporate America with a passion! Just stomp all over the consumer because they have no voice anyway so who cares what they think? Grrrrr…..
Okay, so what the holy fuck is up with the price of gas this week? I mean other than the price of gas. Sunday I put gas in the tank and paid $3.25. Today, it was at $3.75 at that same station! Remember when gas prices used to fluctuate by pennies and nobody really noticed all that much? How could they justify 50 cents in only 4-5 days? It’s all a scam. I’m convinced of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know all about supply and demand economics but I also know that ALL of the oil companies have been posting record profits for the last couple of years. I’ve got news for you people….THAT MONEY AIN’T COMIN’ OUTTA THIN AIR!!!! It’s YOUR money…the same money you are paying at the gas pumps. Profits come from price markups…plain and simple. They talk a great game about how this that and the other thing are responsible for the high prices and it’s never anything they are doing but then they go home and take baths in their tubs full of our money. Fuckers. I don’t see where this is ever going to end. And based on the insane hours I work, carpooling isn’t an option. sigh…..
I’m still kinda blah. Not really depressed but not really my usual retarded self either. That’s why I do the cleaning…to take my mind off of things. I’m weird, I know that. But yeah…I know exactly what the problem is and it’s private but I can tell you that I’m too sensitive for my own good. When someone I love is hurting, I hurt even more for them. When you only want happiness and fulfillment for them and it always seems to be just out of reach….it’s just not easy constantly watching that person get knocked back down over and over. And the funny thing is that they are probably taking this all better than I am! I tend to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders some time. Maybe I’ll be lucky and the stress of it all will just kill me. Aaaah…blissful eternal rest.
Most of you probably know by now that Cooper is back writing on a private blog. I’m so happy for him but at the same time, I probably won’t be reading very often. Getting there requires passwords and gmail accounts (which I don’t use). I swear, I can’t remember anything anymore! I set up a gmail and guess what? I can’t remember my password or my gmail because they make you do stupid combinations of lettes and numbers and this and that and it isn’t the same as my other standard passwords. So I feel locked out already. Oh well. See Roxita Bonita? This is why I can never remember how to get to your blog either and you aren’t even as mysterious and inaccessible! Oh gawd, I’m just getting old. My paternal gramma had Alzheimers and if it’s hereditary, I’m probably in the early stages. Eh…nobody will miss me there anyway. I rarely ever commented there because the few times I did, people took issue with what I wrote and immediately hated me. There is just a certain formal vibe on his blog that I don’t quite fit into (what else is new???!!!!) and I recognize that. He and I have an email relationship/friendship that I like just fine so I should tell him to just email me copies of his posts. Oh! That’s a great idea actually! Cooper, I know you are going out of town but if you see this, email me your posts! I’m such high maintenance.
Okay, my dolls are home. Not to be confused with “dolls” as in the beloved pills featured in “Valley of the Dolls” but you know what I mean.
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Glad Cooper is blogging again. Sorry someone you love is getting knocked around. And AT&T is stupid. I don’t have a home phone, I get directtv cuz the local suck you dry cable company doesnt carry LOGO.
Then I got LOGO and I love some of the shows…but they play the same dam thing all week.
I am bitchy today.
Well, I’m glad he’s blogging again. I’ve had bad experiences with phone companies, as well. Several years ago, they came out to install new service for me. What they did was disconnect my neighbor’s service and give me their phone number. So I was getting calls for my neighbor; and no one I knew was calling me, cuz I gave them my new #, which was never turned on. It took about a week for me to figure it all out!
I laughed really hard at bath in their tubs of money fuckers line. Here’s what spouse tells me. Keep a small little notebook thingy next to your keyboard. Write every password and site there. I still don’t do it, and I have had the same trouble as you with figuring out what my password is for any given site.
For the love of the sweet baby christ child baked in a pie, just blogroll me then! I’d hate to think I was adding to the madness that is swirling around in your head!
Oh and don’t get me started on the damn oil companies. I feel like you only my hubby WORKS FOR ONE OF THEM so it’s hard to bitch and moan but everyone is, even their employees!
And my spidey senses are tingling and you just need to know that your problems are yours and their problems are theirs. Be the best you you can be.
You need to watch the Urban Mutants live from the Knights of Columbus in South Euclid on YouTube 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi8uCvw3hY
i get so mad at the phone co’s and the cable co’s that i could spit…lucky for me i live and work in west and only go to waco under the threat of a gun..so even though gas is high..i have been driving on a 1/2 tank of gas for almost 3 weeks and it’s just below 1/2 tank..if i fill it up(who can afford that?) i can drive for 3 months on a tank of gas..hahahah…
what is LOGO…? never heard of it…but this is texas..
Here’s my solution for passwords: whenever possible I use the same password for everything. Not as safe as it could be, but I’m not doing high security stuff, either. If that password doesn’t pass muster on some site, then I alter it a little bit. Add a simple number sequence to it, usually. If they ask for a combo AlphaNumeric with symbols, I try to substitute a symbol for a letter, like @ for a, $ for s, ! for i, % for k.
Of course I’m too retarded to keep up with all of that, so I have a spreadsheet file (Excel) where I keep all that info. Who the account is with, username, password. etc. When I forget what the fuck I’m doing (which inevitably happens) I check my password spreadsheet.
Sound like a lot of trouble? It’s a fraction of the trouble you just went through to read all about it.
Hate phone companies. Hate. Passionately.
Gas prices. Ugh. I love to drive. Calms me down. I love to go on road trips. Keeps me sane (in an insane kind of way). The oil companies are cramping my style in a BIG way.
Is Valley of the Dolls a good movie? I’ve never seen it.
AT&T sucks balls - and not in the good way, either. The last time I had to deal with their customer service, it was some guy over in India and he was adamant about reading from his script instead of answering my damn questions. I spent a half an hour on the phone with the douchebag and got nowhere.
As far as gas prices, I’ve heard that the current spike has a lot to do with the weak dollar, which you can blame on Bush and his idiotic economic policies. Supply and demand play a role too, and the two are kicking in at the same time unfortunately. I wouldn’t doubt that the oil companies are doing their little bit to make prices higher, too. I haven’t been bothererd as much by the bas prices because I don’t own a car and take the bus everywhere. So I pay $50 a month for a bus pass and I’m pretty much covered. I imagine that relying on the bus would be difficult for someone with a family, though.