HP Bloatware
Seriously. Can you not hook a printer up just to print? Do you really need ink monitoring levels, a photo processing center, newsletter, and automatic updates? All I want to do is print a document once in a while.
Maybe I’ve been out of the old school hardware scene for a while, but it took a good 30 minutes to install the driver and all the damn software for an old HP3900 here at work. Surely there’s some third party drivers out there that you can install to give you basic printing functions, that don’t bog down this already bogged down hardware!
I can haz interwebs!
I knew I couldn’t trust the cable company. They said they had to send somebody by. I don’t think anybody came by. The feable piece of wire that held the cable box shut was still very much like I last left it. I came home from work and Andrea was on the phone with Cox customer support. She chats with him for what seems like forever, unplugs the modem. Plugs it in, does a bunch of stuff, blah blah blah. Keeps saying our account isn’t “Authorized”. So he tells her they’ll send a guy out. Friday at the earliest. WTF.
So we trouble shoot some stuff on our end. Make sure all the connections are good. And finally I went as far as to hook the cable modem straight up to the cable that’s coming off the pole outside. Still no change. So the problem was DEFINITELY on there end. I’m convinced that there’s just a problem with our account and that they don’t have the right modem MAC address on there. So I convince Andrea to give ’em a call back, and she asks them to double check the modem on the account. Sure enough, it hasn’t been transferred yet. So after about 15 minutes of her sitting on hold, they FINALLY get it all straightened out and we have the internet again.
Seriously though. Why can’t people just get things straight? We’ve had issues setting up every single utility at this place so far. All of it just because people can’t seem to figure out how to transfer information from one address to another. Don’t even get me started on our water bill. Let’s just say there was one night last week we could only flush the toilet once. All because somebody can’t get numbers straight.
Anyway. It’s nice to have internet again. My computer isn’t anything great, but it’s sure a lot better than the ones we have at work! So much smoother and faster. And the chair here is more comfortable to boot!
01.25.08Sick people annoy the hell out of me!
The main reason I detest cold weather is the flu season. All kinds of germs and bugs are out there and for some reason I seem to find them!
I’d managed to catch something a week and a half ago. Miserable! Temp, sore throat, blah-blah… I spent my money, went to the doctor, got medicine and got better. Stayed home til the doctor said I wasn’t contagious, then went back out into the public.
Now, less than two weeks later I get sick again! Back to the doctor, more medicine… I woke up at 4 a.m. tired, but wide awake. THAT is frustrating. I laid there for an hour talking to the cat. And she looked up at me like she understood my misery, precious thing!
All of this because sick people don’t stay home. Now, I understand that being in a bubble is impossible. But have you ever walked thru a store and there is a person coughing and sneezing and no concern over covering their mouth? Dragging their sick kids out in a restaurant with snot running down their face, cheeks flushed and even a perfect stranger like me can tell they don’t feel good? Oh, my favorite… People who leave their used kleenex in the shopping cart!? WHAT is all this about?
I realize I am a germ-a-phobic. But it’s freaking ridiculous! And after spending $150 on medicine and dr office visits in the past ten days, I think I have a right to bitch! I’d rather walk into a place of business and see a sign telling me they are under-staffed due to employees’ being gone with the flu than walk in and have some sick fool coughing all over me, my purchase or whatever!
Fuzz and I talked about this at 4 a.m. and she agreed with me! I love that cat!!!!
Riddle me this:
How does a band get erased on Guitar Hero? I’d gone to all the trouble of completing a level on Guitar Hero and went back to step up a level and my band is gone! Is it a glitch or would it be someone erasing my shtuff?
Let’s face it, not quite a LARGE SCALE problem, but still kind of tics me off!
12.6.07Internet is on the fritz.
They must be doing “upgrades” somewhere in the neighborhood because every morning my internet practically doesn’t work. It’ll be up for 30 seconds real slow, then down for 5 or 10 minutes. REALLY annoying since I’m such an internet junkie.
It seems to work fine by the time I get home from work, but I hope it doesn’t get any worse. We ditched our cable a while back to save some extra scratch, and if the internet is down, there’s not much to do. I have taken Final Fantasy XII back up in the mornings and am enjoying it even more than the first time I started it. So it’s not all bad. Just if you’re paying for something to work you expect it to work, ya know!
I crave internet!!!!
11.29.07It’s finally happened! Cold, hard cash no longer any good!
I was on ebay and found a little something to cover someone on my xmas list. I went to buy it using paypal and got a surprise. Turns out that paypal not only wants access to my bank account, they also want access to a credit/debit card! Isn’t that the same as saying, “We don’t accept cash, only plastic!”
Now, I understand that everyone wants paid for their services. There are no free rides in this world. That’s fine, I get that and I am not asking for a free ride. BUT…are there that many people out there that screw companies out of their money that BIG BUSINESS has to have their hand into every dime of the average working stiff?
I fired off an email to paypal, closed my account with them and it helped the angry voices in my head. But I still wonder why??? It’s like the Sirius experience last year at xmas. They are happy to take my money up front, but want me to insure cold, hard cash with a friggin’ piece of plastic!
IT’S UN-AMERICAN! Ok, that is an exaggeration. But, I really can’t believe George, Abe, Hamilton and Grant don’t mean much anymore!
Why do people do it?
Is it because they just don’t shower regularly? Is it because the think too much of a good thing, must be a great thing? I don’t know.
There’s a couple folks around the radio station here that must seriouly BATHE in perfume and/or cologne. Enough that the first indication that they are in the building is their smell. Enough that their presence lingers long after they’ve left the room.
I just don’t understand the thought process when they’re getting around first thing in the morning. Okaaaay. Two squirts of the fragrance…. aw hell lets take this little spray nozzle off and just kinda splash it about. Maybe I can soak an undershirt in this stuff or something. Boy I smell goooood!
On the other hand I bet the never have to worry about mosquito bites.
Fiasco
What an under used word. Its so fun to say. It just rolls off the tongue. Unfortunately the experiences associated with the word aren’t as enjoyable.
I’ve been working on the brakes on my car. Changing brake pads, and new rotors as well. The good news is, the shudder that I used to get when I pressed the brakes is gone. The bad news is, I can’t get the stupid brake light in my car to go off. I’m just about at my wits end. It’ll be going on day four of messing with this. Gonna try to bleed the brakes and master cylinder one last time. If that doesn’t work. I’m going to tear the whole damn thing apart and start over!
More as it develops.
09.25.07The new Monopoly
Perhaps I’m already becoming one of those old codgers that hates any change. But is this really necessary? The new Monopoly: Here and Now Electronic Banking Edition.
Monopoly has always had their novelty editions catering to whatever niche you find yourself in. Whether it’s your favorite sports team, or TV show. But I think this new edition highlights a worrisome trend in our society. I’m not concerned that the cheapest property (formerly Mediterranean Ave.) has gone from $60 to $600,000. Or that the railroads are now airports. My beef is with the new cash on card system.
In a world where it’s already hard enough to find someone who can count back correct change in a drive thru, is it really too much to ask that you have basic math skills before embarking on a 3 day long game of Monopoly? We’re not asking anybody to compound interest here. I just need somebody to make change when I buy Ventnor Ave. for $260 and want to pay with my $500. Now just swipe a card. If you ask me this is the Monolpoly: No Thinking Required edition. Is this the kind of behavior we want to encourage?
Mark my words, the day will come when you walk into BK, order some chicken fries, hand the kid behind the counter a twenty, and get nothing but a blank stare for a few seconds while he tries to figure out what to do with it. “Uhh…debit or credit?” he’ll say.
F$%# you, Ford!
So I go out get ready to change the spark plugs in Andrea’s car last night since she can’t remember the last time they’d been changed. I just bought some new extensions and swivel heads for my socket set so I can get the job done. And I get the four on the passenger side done fine. Seeing as how her car is a 4 cylinder normally the job would be done at that point. But no!
ONLY at Ford would they decide that a 4 cyl motor needs 8 spark plugs. And ONLY at Ford could you stick a little 2 liter four banger into the SAME SPACE that fits a 5.0 V8 and STILL make it be a bitch to get to things. I ended up getting it done, but not without losing a big chunk of skin trying to get my hand UNDERNEATH the intake manifold to pull the wires off, and a new set of plug wires because one of them just disintegrated in my hand. That and a lot of swearing.
Friggin’ Fords.