Monday, 12 April 2004, 14:11:50 EDT
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This past weekend was pretty good. Thursday I went out to my grandparent's and slept there so that I could wake up Friday and work on my car. My grandfather and I managed to get it in a drivable state so I am no longer driving my grandmother's car. I still need to get the back struts installed correctly but they are not going to fall out any time soon. Jay and I are going to work on that this coming weekend I believe.
Friday evening I went over to an acquaintance's apartment with a friend and had a few drinks. Aside from the Braves loosing a very close game in the fifteenth inning it was a fun night. Just about everyone there was already smashed when we walked in the door. For some reason they all decided that they needed to get me smashed as well. They weren't very successful, having all passed out before I could open an eighth Killian's, so I just got a bit tipsy. After everyone passed out me, Lulu, and some other girl (I don't know how to spell her name) went over to Steak N Shake. We just happened to get the new guy who couldn't even take orders correctly much less get them to the table. After getting my hamburger wrong he came back with a double fixed the way I asked for the single and just completely forgot about my fries. I didn't really care since I got my hamburger but Lulu decided that I had to have my fries as well so she told him about it. Dude brought me the largest plate of fries I have ever seen to make amends for his mistake. Not only could I not finish the burger but I couldn't even finish a quarter of the plate of fries. I was drunk not malnurished.
For some reason Saturday I felt like crap. I don't know why though; I didn't drink too much - just enough to loosen me up. That didn't stop me from shipping my phone back to Virgin Mobile for a refund. I finally just gave up on them and told them to give me my money back. They accepted it a lot easier than I thought they would and just told me to ship the phone with my receipt to ... (view rest)
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 12:49:45 EDT
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I just got off the phone with Virgin Mobile again. I totally threw the script monkey off this time. He tried to give me the spiel that my situation is being investigated and will be fixed as soon as possible. He was not prepared for me to throw it back at him that they have been giving me that shit for a month and half now and that I want to speak with the technician who is supposed to be fixing it. He tried to tell me that he isn't even sure they have a phone. I reminded him that he works for a telephone operations center and the technician "working" on my problem is basically a telephone repair man - of course he has a damned telephone. He then stuttered and said he would go ask his supervisor; when he returned he said that his supervisor is going to get in touch with the NOC (Network Operations Center) and call me back within an hour. They now have fourty-five minutes before I call them again. They are getting my god damned phone working today whether they like it or not.
Motherfuckers.
*Update - 19:47EST*
I just got off the phone with the person in charge of all the port-ins and outs, the guy that actually talks to Sprint, at the Virgin Mobile operations center. I basically had to tell the call center's floor manager to fuck off and put his boss on the phone. Well, he actually gave me some information that makes sense. What he says happened is this:
When they tried to get the number from Sprint the number basically died. Why in the hell that would happen is beyond me. So, what they had to do was do a "vanity request" (e.g. when you go to the store and request a specific number having never had service before - any where) to get that number. When they did that the network id for the number changed and caused a mismatch between all the databases (nationwide) and that caused Sprint (Virgin Mobile's network c ... (view rest)
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 01:35:37 EDT
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Yesterday was a horrible day. I had trouble getting to sleep Sunday night so Monday morning it was a real pain to drag my lazy self out of bed and get ready for work. Nothing unusual about that, it was just the beginning though.
When I made it to campus it was unusually busy and as a result I had to park way out in the middle of no where and hike to the library, where my "office" (I don't want to describe it right now, just know that I don't have an office) is, in the cold - I loathe winter. Once I got in I found out that we had to attend a speech being given by a prospective CIO for CCSU at 3:00PM. My lunch is scheduled for 3:00PM so I got to take an early lunch. No problem right? I wish. Since I absolutely had to be in the auditorium by 3:00PM I got to rush over to a fast food place, pick up some food, rush back to campus, and then shovel the food into my mouth as fast as possible. I sat down in the auditorium probably a minute and a half before they started the speech.
Yay, half the suck day is over.
If you have been reading recently you will know that I am trying to get my cell phone number ported from Sprint PCS[uck] over to Virgin Mobile. I called VM Saturday and they told me it should be active Monday by 6:00PM. Guess what? I still have no cell phone service. The whores are now saying that I should have service five days from last Saturday, that would be this Wednesday, and that there really no one else to call because "the people that can do the porting have the information and are working on it." Porting numbers is bullshit.
I also got my electric bill today; it is always fun to get bills on a shitty day. The bill is for $343.67. What...the...fuck? Evidently, they never sent me a bill last month. When I don't receive a bill I assume either a) I don't have a bill or b) I have already paid it. I know I didn't receive it because the assholes that are Georgia Power stop sending you paper bills in the mail when you sign up to pay your bills through th ... (view rest)
Friday, 06 February 2004, 20:12:14 EDT
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I stopped by the local Sprint PCS store today and found out that I am not bound by any contract. I evidently have just been paying a monthly fee for service and could have left at any time since last April. I am happy they made it so crystal clear (thick sarcasm). After find out this choice bit of information I went over to Best Buy and picked up a Virgin Moble Slider V5 phone. If you are considering switching services and keeping your number before the end of March you should call whomever it is you wish to sign with FIRST. Evidently, if you do not live in a "majorly populated" area you can not have your number ported just yet. Luckily enough, I was able to sound pissed off enough that she checked my number with the first six digits as opposed to just the area code (it seems the are not "supposed" to do this) and I turned out to be eligible after all. I would have been pretty ticked if I could not have ported today; the phone was not cheap and I didn't want to buy it and not use the damn thing. So, by 6:00PM tomorrow I should be rid of Sprint and the high monthly bill and on with Virgin Mobile. If you know you are in my phone book and want to have a personal ring go pick one out in their ring tone store and choose to "give me" a ring tone (there are LOTS to choose from); they are $2.00 for my model phone.
While I was out today I heard some awesome news on the radio. It seems that the state senate just ... (view rest)