Month: July 2004

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Constantly Screwed

You know rebates suck. 1) only 7% (documental fact) of all customers that buy products actually send in their rebates 2) of those 7% the company may or may not send the rebate and a lessor percentage will actually complain

Cingular owes me $200 from rebates and sent a letter on May 18 explaining that “something” was wrong with my receipt. I call the call center and get put on hold only to get a person that regurgitates the words that are in the letter “just highlight your receipt and send it back.” I can’t find the receipt because I had to use it for a repair! I have photocopies of everything else. Cingular will reprint the receipt but you start to question how much hassle is this savings worth. How many years am I taking off my life in stress over $200?! Well right now I could really use that $200!!

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Good Cleaning

Yahoo! My initial goal is to help settle an account with a collector. I believe I have already paid but obviously the onus is on me to show that and I have become too disorganized to show those kinds of things. I am certain that in these past several years I have double or tripled my debt due to disorganization. I am also certain that I have been double and triple billed on some things.

Anyhow, in cleaning I found my CD of MS Security patches! Working on people’s computers just got easier!

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A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

A New Day!

Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

This Morning

I woke in a terrible panic but did manage to pull myself from bed 20 minutes earlier than usual.

Yesterday was all about other people’s problems. Even when I sat down at the computer and committed myself to 2 hours on a very specific task I failed to start the task and helped someone else instead. Mind you, it was rewarding in that I was problem solving and succeeding but nothing I did yesterday contributed to preserving the well being of my family.

This morning I could feel the stress building horribly so I woke the wife early. I don’t like doing that but I was going to crack. It is raining and I can’t get the dog to pee outside. I watch her and when she squats I run her outside but the kids don’t help. They are kids so they are oblivious to what goes on around them.

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Ram Tough?

Since this is an edu and this wonderful tidbit is likely to disappear I’ve take the liberty of reproducing it here. I knew not how to contact the author so I give credit here.

It’s hard to read this without thinking "Dodge trucks are for pussi…"

After years of health education in the renowned Cohasset Elementary / Middle / High School System, I know a thing or two about the female reproductive system. I can tell you all about your “ovaries,” your “labia,” your “uterus,” the corpus luteum, estrogen, and progesterone- the works… This excellent background led me, as if guided by God Himself, to notice something truly amazing:

Many of you are familiar with the “Tough Guy” image that truck companies try to create in their television commericals – with all the off-roading and drag-racing up hills with boats in tow (because there’s all that water at the top of hills)… Incidentally, most of what you see voids the warranty that comes with such vehicles… Anyway, I ask you how ‘macho’ a Dodge Ram can be when their emblem is basically the female reproductive system with nostrils:

Female Reproductive Organs Dodge Symbol

I linked the Dodge emblem (on the right) to their site in case you want to buy a truck.