Today’s word–REBOOT

Feels very strange today, especially when I think back 11 years ago today and what happened in NYC – The Pentagon – Shanksville, PA.  The entire world remembers today.  If you lost someone in this tragedy, please accept my sincere sympathies.

 

So I am working on PC’s in West By God Virginia.  They are the slowest things I think I have touched in a very long time.  Thankfully I am doing this via Remote Control.  Right now I am waiting on someone to call me back so we can go to the next step.

I also have a laptop to configure and get out the door.  I said two days but I think it will be more like three or four, kind of depends what else happens today and the rest of the week.  Just ran Windows Update and the laptop needs 133 updates.  Wow and I have not put on any software. 

So this morning a lady was having some problems getting to a website.  I sat down at her desk and said I would fix it.  Then I caught a glimpse of some new photos she put up of one of her kids.  Damn he is cute, I suddenly forgot my password and was momentarily paralyzed.  I had to force myself to not look at them and look at her screen instead.  That worked and I got her all fixed.

I’m about to go to lunch and someone else bothers me with every time I open a document or an e-mail I get this funny message on my screen about a failure.  I almost said honey stop looking in the mirror.  Seriously, a reboot fixed that right up.  I don’t get people who don’t try to help themselves just pick up the phone without trying anything and say I’m stuck.  That’s like the car running out of gas and flagging someone down to say it won’t go any more can you fix it?!

Got my car back last night.  It’s looking good.  Oil changed, Air filter changed.  Buttons on sterring wheel replaced.  Air in the tires and a new Throttle Body.  Plus they replaced the license plate bulbs under warranty.  Only cost $66.  The oil change was a bit high but it’s the dealer.  They get $99 per hour on labor.  Wish I made that kind of money, I wouldn’t mind sharing.

We went out to eat last night as I promissed.  Not too bad.  I saw one cute guy who reminded me of James Barnett.  Don’t know who that is?  Check out Google.  Anyway, this person looked just like him.  He was a waiter and super fine.  I was going to say something to him, for real.  However, we discovered that one of my partners former relatives is the manager of the place.  So I kept my trap shut.  Probably just as well ..saved embarrassment for both of us. 

My partner heard about something called Pos-T-Vac it’s supposed to help guys with E.D.  He asked for more information to be sent.  Yesterday, he gets a call from the post office saying that he has to come down to sign some paperwork if he wants to receive “that kind of mail”.  WTF they have delivered sex toys, porn videos but they are griping now about a single first class letter.  Makes no sense to me.  My partner wanted to come down and sign the paper but, no he has to make an appointment.  He thinks the postal inspectors are going to be there.  I told him be sure to take your cell phone so you can call me from jail.  He doesn’t go until tomorrow, so should be an interesting meeting. He plans on signing nothing but I think his mouth is going to go off.  I also suspect that our mail will be more closley monitored.  Fine by me, I don’t get any sexual material by mail and the only things that come to me are stuff I order on-line.  I wonder if they would fuss about an order from Undergear, I mean they sell cock rings now.  Oh my!  Screw you USPS.

I called the lady about the photo, she is out sick today.  I will try her back later in the week.  Who knows maybe I will figure it out by then.  I just don’t have too much time in the evening.  Lots of running, cleaning and chores.  Seems like I get about an hour to myself and that’s just before bed.

Got a call at lunch time from my guy griping about our mail order pharmacy.  They can only bill us $100 for medication and if you go over that well your SOL.  I told him to talk with a human I ran up a bill of $300 + and they shipped everything to me.  You just have to get an exception.  Then he started telling me how he was going to stop taking medicine.  He is really upset over the post office, then add this plus his vehicle is in need of repairs and he is still sore from falling.  Yeah, Oscar The Grouch!  But it’s understandable.

I am going to call this lady to see if she is back yet.  This waiting is a game I don’t play well.  Hope that your all doing well.  Be safe and I will talk with you peeps later!

 

Simple Change made Complicated

So I called the Phone Company this morning.  I wanted a simple change to add Call Screening to my account.  I got a foreign speaking woman who told me that it would be better to change packages because I would get all of the features I wanted as well as unlimited local and long distance calls.  She quoted me $31.00.  Wow at that price I couldn’t pass it up.

So I waited as she processed the order.  The order part was done and she came back to say she was incorrect the price was $59.00 per month.  SAY WHAT!  She wrapped up the call before I had a chance to get a word in edge wise.

So I called back.  I wanted to know the price of the Call Screening Feature by it’s self.  Seems that was a bit complicated and I got hung up on.

I called back and got someone else asked the same question.  They went through a lot of rigmarole asking questions and restating what I had already said, so they could be sure they understood me.  Huh, either you get it when I say it or you don’t.  It’s pretty simple.  Since I could see I was getting no where, I asked for a supervisor.  Then I got hung up on again. 

Now I’m about ready to kill and madder than a Honey Badger.  So I called back and spoke with yet another person.  Turns out the Call Screening Feature isn’t available in my area.  So I had them cancel the order and went back to service as it was before I called. 

Me and the phone company never have gotten along.  I always call with simple requests but their employees can’t seem to fulfill them.  I just don’t understand why.

What was really surprising to me is how quickly that order processed through.  Just a couple years ago you could call and make changes to your account and they wouldn’t process through for a couple days.  Today if you call by the time your done with the call the order has processed.  Amazing how they were able to speed things up.  Also they don’t charge those one time installation charges.  I guess since VOIP has come into play they want to be sure not to loose any customers. 

If it wasn’t for dependable service regardless of the weather, I would ditch my traditional landline phone and switch to a VOIP service.  The other thing that is holding me hostage is our house alarm.  It will work on VOIP but with my luck our house would either catch fire or be broken into when the VOIP service was down.  The Fire Department and/or Police would never know and we would be left holding the bag.  I know they make back up cellular connections but that is expensive and now isn’t the time for me to freely spend money.

My other upset of the day was at TGI Friday’s.  I knew I had a bunch of reward points and haven’t used them in a while.  So we ordered and got yummy food as well as great cold drinks.  Then I go to pay and find out you can’t redeem your points in the store any longer.  You have to go on-line and redeem them, wait for a coupon to be e-mailed to you and then bring that with you to the store before it expires.  It’s all a gimmick, they are hoping that either you forget the coupon or you forget to use it by the expiration date and forfeit your points.   I liked the old system better where you could redeem in the store, it was easier and much more convenient.  Still it was a great meal.

The mail brought me the latest edition of the Under Gear dot Com Catalog.  Who’s on the cover but none other than Mario Lopez modeling his new line of Underwear.  Super HOT.  I don’t care if he cheated on his wife he could do what ever he wanted to me, I’d be his prisoner for a day or longer!  One thing that most of us gay men have in common is this catalog, no matter where we are living we are sure that it follows us.  Even if you don’t order there are some good looking underwear models!

I finally got my bank statement and have been waiting patiently for it since I started using my debit card on a daily basis.  I was seriously afraid that I might not balance.  Sure enough I found an error.  Turns out I forgot to log one of my Unemployment checks.  So now I’m more money ahead.  I’ve never come up with a negative balance and I have never bounced a check in my life.  Those are traditions that I plan to uphold. 

On the Job Hunt I found 3 jobs that I applied for on-line tonight.  Typically Monday’s are a bust.  I know that I’m so not qualified for one of them, but applying certainly can’t hurt anything. 

So that’s a wrap for Monday.  I’m off to surf the web and see what is new with the rest of the world.  Talk with you peeps later!