If you're going to call me, and leave me a voicemail with a callback number different than the number that shows up on my phone, repeat the number twice. You never sound as clear as you think you do when you're leaving a message.
If you're going to call me, and leave me a voicemail with a callback number different than the number that shows up on my phone, repeat the number twice. You never sound as clear as you think you do when you're leaving a message.
In reply to CJ :
No, I'm gonna do the same thing I did with the last one he just got rid of not a month ago. Wait for them to get annoying then show up with a hatchet and a fist full of cash. He wouldn't let me eat the last one but did find it a new home in a hurry.
Unless I catch them in my coop, in which case they're dinner after I take photographic evidence.
Lately I've been seeing lots of free cyclone fence on Craigslist, I might just have to bring some home and set one up to keep them out of my yard.
On a different rant's front... I've had the OTA DVR in diagnostic mode (thankfully it can still be used normally while in this mode) since Friday for their service people to try and figure out why I'm not seeing the channels I used to... and they basically said, "We don't see anything wrong on the diagnostics, we guess your antenna just isn't pulling in those frequencies."
Right. My 70-mile-range directional antenna built (or at least advertised as such) for HD TV reception that is sitting a whopping THREE MILES from the station I'm having trouble getting's transmitter and pointed straight at it- is the problem. Oh, and my over-a-decade-old television's tuner isn't having any issues getting the same station that the DVR just can't see.
Guess if it's clear and dry enough I'll be sitting up on the roof seeing if adjusting the antenna makes any difference at all...
Comcast. Ugh.
April: Neighbor was having intermittent internet issues. Somehow the tech didn't think I was a customer and disconnected my internet.
2 days later a different tech (finally) comes back to reconnect my internet and claims the line through my garage ceiling is "noisy" and insists on running a new line out the side of my house. Since that, the internet has been intermittently disconnecting at least once an hour. Aside from the problems it causes w/streaming tv, the wireless printer is a pain to reconnect.
May: Another service call, this (new) Tech comes back out and says "your 2-year old router and modem are bad." SWMBWO handled that call, so I wasn't there. I throw money at the problem and upgrade my modem & router to a 1-piece unit w/the latest tech (the tech's suggestion). Problem persists. I know the techs tend to take the easiest route out. If my memory serves me correctly, I went through the same process when I replaced my router.
Comcast charges me $70 for the visit and unnecessary recommendation. I only noticed because my bill seemed unusually high. A refund review is now in-process.
June: After-hours tech over the phone claims to have optimized my internet and "fixed" all the issues. It did improve some, but still drops service regularly.
Another visit scheduled for later this week.
I Have Ditched Everyone, an Analog TV box I have 117 channels, A 50 dollar antenna and a 25 dollar box , AT&T phone with Hotspot for the Computer 45 a month with a phone smarter than myself.
It's 99 degrees here today, and I just discovered that my window AC unit doesn't actually fit in any of my windows.
Stop telling me how to fix my ears. I've been this way all my life. I don't selectively hear things. I get bits and pieces of things, like radio reception fading in and out. If I'm not looking at you, I cannot hear you. If you want me to be part of the conversation, get my goddamn attention. How many times do I have to tell you before is sinks in? You have no idea how hard it is to function with this in regular society. It's getting old. berkeley off.
Two hours of the pto bitching about petty bullE36 M3. There should be corporal punishment for self centered pettty backstabbing bitchyness lasting longer than 15 minutes. Caning. Fire ant food. Something.
Amazon.
I've had an account since ~'03.
Been a Prime member since ~'14
In all that time I've ordered a lot of stuff, for me, gifts for others, stuff for work at a couple different jobs. I've needed to use their customer service maybe a dozen times, returns have been simple, even had them tell me to just keep an item or two instead of returning it.
In the last 2 months I've had a a surprising number of issues, that's annoying, and out of character, but the real concern is that I've been lied to by Amazon customer service's chat folks on at least 3 different occasions in that same time.
What's one to do, there's no one else that really compares? Just suck it up and be thankful for the good years?
Bezos' divorce must have been worse than I thought.
In reply to Appleseed :
I feel your pain, except it doesn't fade out, it just gets garbled, like the grown ups on Charlie Brown.
I got ran off the road today .
I was turning right (west) onto a 3 lane wide major road with an additional turn lane on the outside leading to a gas station. The left turn lane (south) had just turned green so I stopped, then proceeded to make my right turn into the nearest, outside lane. All of a sudden, this blue Corolla LE comes flying across all 3 lanes to get into the outside turn lane leading to the gas station. They nearly sideswiped me and despite me laying on the horn, they continued moving to the right. I had to dive into the ditch to evade, running over a fallen over construction sign. There was literally no where for me to go. The blue Corolla never even attempted to yield. They did a U turn at the left turn light and used ALL 4 berkeleyING LANES to complete the u-turn.
I didn't even stop to assess the damage. I was just hoping the tires were OK. I drove carefully the rest of the way to work, paying close attention to any funny smells, sounds or vibrations.
The funny thing is that I have never gone this way to work. The normal road I take west to the interstate was blocked by the police, due to of all things, a wreck. So I was already pissed off that I had to back track 5 miles to the next closest road that goes west so I could get on the interstate.
Have you seen how cheap you can get military surplus MRAPS? You can't have a fender bender if you can simply drive over the shiny happy person's car
I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the half finished projects I have around, and feel like I'm spinning my wheels on them. It feels like nothing's getting done and I'm falling farther and farther behind. Objectively that's not really the case, but sometimes it's hard not to just throw gasoline on everything, toss a match, and run screaming into the hills.
Hoondavan said:Comcast. Ugh.
April: Neighbor was having intermittent internet issues. Somehow the tech didn't think I was a customer and disconnected my internet.
2 days later a different tech (finally) comes back to reconnect my internet and claims the line through my garage ceiling is "noisy" and insists on running a new line out the side of my house. Since that, the internet has been intermittently disconnecting at least once an hour. Aside from the problems it causes w/streaming tv, the wireless printer is a pain to reconnect.
May: Another service call, this (new) Tech comes back out and says "your 2-year old router and modem are bad." SWMBWO handled that call, so I wasn't there. I throw money at the problem and upgrade my modem & router to a 1-piece unit w/the latest tech (the tech's suggestion). Problem persists. I know the techs tend to take the easiest route out. If my memory serves me correctly, I went through the same process when I replaced my router.
Comcast charges me $70 for the visit and unnecessary recommendation. I only noticed because my bill seemed unusually high. A refund review is now in-process.
June: After-hours tech over the phone claims to have optimized my internet and "fixed" all the issues. It did improve some, but still drops service regularly.
Another visit scheduled for later this week.
I had a similar problem years ago. Every spring and fall when the temps rapidly changed, I would lose internet. Everybody on my street would lose internet, VOIP, and anything not-basic-cable. You would see the contractor trucks up and down the street all the time. After talking to my neighbors about it, I finally called them up and suggested it was an upstream issue. I was told flat out that if that was the case, the computer would tell them.
That fall, a drunk took out the pole with the main distribution box.. problem solved
dculberson said:I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the half finished projects I have around, and feel like I'm spinning my wheels on them. It feels like nothing's getting done and I'm falling farther and farther behind. Objectively that's not really the case, but sometimes it's hard not to just throw gasoline on everything, toss a match, and run screaming into the hills.
I'm having a lot of this lately, at home and particularly at work. The missus and I decided to have a project to put up string lights the weekend before last so we could actually have something to call done.
The uprights fell and tried to kill us.
Last weekend, we decided to clear and mulch the beds in the front yard. Ran out of landscaping fabric pins 80% through.
I don't have a solution. I'm just in the same boat. Nothing can ever be finished.
RevRico said:Oh good, the neighbor now has 2 roosters. It's not a good idea to berkeley with me like this dude.
What a cock.
So, for the moment the DVR is mostly working (read: it is picking up all but the CBS station- which is the closest one *headdesk*) using the old 'UFO' antenna which is... sitting on a chair about 5 feet away from the DVR in the living room. Since nothing else has worked, I decided to find out if it is something wrong with the DVR and have ordered the newer, cheaper (it doesn't have internal storage, but I have several TBs of external storage lying around that I can hook up to it) model to see if it does better. If it doesn't, then I can return it. If it does work and it's clearly something wrong with the old one... I'll have to dig up the documentation on it and see if I can return it or get it serviced so I can sell it.
Also, in theory the fired builder is supposed to be back from out of town sometime today- so I need to try and arrange to get the materials he still has and all of the invoices from at least the last draw. We're hoping for the second bid we wanted before deciding to come in this morning so we can decide and move forward, but we really need to know what materials we have (specifically whether the windows & doors the fired builder claims he bought actually exist or if we still have to buy them) to move forward. At least we now have the electrician squared away... one of the prospective builders was able to find out who it was from the permit and has worked with him before.
In reply to RevRico :
Double-check your county ordinances around livestock. In most areas of my county you're allowed to have hens, but NOT roosters. They only recently allowed even hens, but also implemented setback requirements and a permit fee of $600 to $700 to build a chicken coop. The permit fee expense indicates it'll take 100 years for the "free" eggs to actually be free.
You say you suck at inter-department communication. Construction, facilities, maintenance, and security don't communicate well.
Your response when asked about correcting this issue so your contractors can do their jobs efficiently, is that you have always had this problem and you don't see it changing.
Then you laugh.
Then you complain that services are expensive and service calls are being unnecessarily duplicated by your departments...
In reply to Hoondavan :
My township is an island basically. It's the only place around without ordinance against roosters because the majority of it is farm land.
I can file noise complaints when they get annoying, but otherwise we only have to conform to the state, which means no permits up to 3500 birds, and no regulation at all.
There's good and bad living with the lack of regulation, this is just part of the bad that needs dealt with. I will be talking to the township supervisor later this year about getting the rules changed. I remember he still owed my dad a favor, but I might have to jog his memory on that.
I get checking social media or something at the gym.
However, if you've been sitting there for 2 minutes staring at your phone and not moving any weight and I ask if I can work in because the gym is crowded and you say no? You're an shiny happy person.
The last week and a half has been a major shift in the knowledge and methodology of how I need to do my job (still the same type of work), and I’m doing what I can to learn, but am falling behind and feeling very incompetent right now. Between this and other challenges in my life right now, selling all my crap, buying a van, and taking off for parts unknown is seeming like a good idea.
I am very, very unhappy with Apple/iTunes right now. My wife downloaded a "free trial" app from the apple store seven days ago. She didn't like the app and deleted it pretty much immediately. She did not realize that she had agreed to a subscription and in order to cancel her "free trial" she had to navigate into the bowels of iTunes to cancel it.
So, today, seven days later, a charge pops up on our credit card.... for $47 berkeleying dollars. No app is worth anywhere near that! I also found how to request a refund in iTunes and it was immediately determined we were not entitled to a refund. I'm surprised Apple has automatically decided to forgo the Macbook sale I was going to pull the trigger on this week over a $45 scam app but I am just that angry over their garbage business practices when they rip me off. I expected better from Apple, but I guess I've learned my lesson. On the positive side, I'll likely save quite a bit of money over the next year as I was planning to buy the aformentioned Mac and another iPhone.
I fear that, like badly used antibiotics creates resistant strains of superbugs, I am creating a super race of sales people. If you ring my doorbell just as I'm settling into my recliner for a much needed nap, you will leave my yard in one of two ways- either with a tear in the corner of your eye, or muttering, "That guy is a berkeleying shiny happy person." I don't want your crap. I'd rather be kidnapped by a herd of sex crazed wolverines than spend enough time to get to the portion of your story where I learn what you are selling.
I used to take pride in helping people decide that sales wasn't really the career for them. I once had a phone solicitor call me back to tell me I was sick. I felt that was a personal high point...That was the third call from a point of sale machine person in 15 minutes, and I might have muttered something as I hung up the phone.
Because a friend of mine is now dating a new woman, I recently learned that I was the second cold call for her as a credit card processor salesperson, and she left wondering whether she was capable of the job. I'm never rude, I just point out to them that they are spouting the lies they have been fed from their overlords, and no matter who processes my cards, they all wind up charging the same amount after a year or so. She is still at the job several years later, and is quite good at the job.
Oh-oh.
Fancy new 6" wide gutters don't drain for E36 M3. We just had a good rain storm and it is a waterfall off the front and back of my house, right over the top of the gutters. Good thing I haven't signed off on the final inspection yet. I'm soaking wet after building a makeshift ramp to bounce the waterfall out into the yard and away from the foundation. I'll check the basement walls in the morning, hopefully I caught it before any water could soak through the block wall.
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