Daily Archives: Wednesday June 20th, 2007

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How Do I Feel?: amused

Ok, not really… yeah ok it was… maybe.

I took Pauline to work so I could run some errands, first stop was the video game store where a USED game was $54 and the NEW game was $59…. Mmmmm kay… The stupid game has been out over a year and a half and I know it was under $40 the last time I was there, so WTF over? Anyway, no way I’m spending $60 on a game… at least not today.

Then I took her truck in to get the oil changed and I took my laptop with me so I could surf the net… it took less then 10 mins from the point I sat down to when I had to get up and pay, now had I left my laptop at home I would have been there an hour.

I come home and start dicking with some video software I just bought. I bought it 8 days ago that said it was being shipped via UPS and since I didn’t get a link to download it, I waited 6 days before I asked where it was and THEN they sent me a link to download it… so we got off to a rocky start.

I then tried to get this shit to work and after a few hours realized I had no clue what I was trying to do so I go to the site and click “support”… dead link… so I click “manual”… dead link.

Ok, so I write to the email I was given and after about 5 emails I find out I got the wrong software for what I wanted to do… *BUT* I need this software to complete what I want to do…. Mmmm kay…. Funny how it didn’t say that on the “site” which looked like it was done in 1996. (And yet, I still bought from it?)

So a few more emails and hours wasted dicking around with it, I still got no where at all, a total POS if I ever saw worthless crap. So I tried a different pc to confirm it is the software and not the machine and same thing… shit.

Refund…

So I talk to a friend and he used a different search term then I did in Google and found a MUCH cheaper and MUCH better software that WORKS! So I have been toying with this all day, so much easier to use and pretty simple, turn it on, press start, boom, working.

Then I start to try and get my summer plans more “official” and make sure I have everything I need, like a rental car for 10 days, I look at my reservation and see I somehow fucked up and got it for 1 day…. So I redo the reservations and again… 1 day… so I watch what happens when I redid it a 3rd time and see it was Hertz fucking it up an not me…. FUCKERS! Got it right this time and decided it’s time to buy my plane ticket and once again I get a red eye back home, but this time I got flying into MLB and not MCO which was only a $8 difference. I’d pay $100 for that I sooooo HATE MCO!

Ok, Car is ready, flight is ready, time to confirm the big moving truck and I see I once again, got it on the wrong date…well, not really wrong, I just want it a day sooner now, so I try to edit my reservation and I cant edit it, so I redo it and move the pickup date from Friday to Thursday….

In no way in fuck did I expect that picking it up on Thursday over a Friday would *SAVE* me $596…. Fuck me…. For the exact same shit too. So *THIS* made my day. Yes… I am easy.

I also found a closer place to pick it up as well and only 2 miles from here so I run over there to take a look at what they had and I must say, it looks MUCH larger then the last one I got and nicer as well. I talked to the owner for a while and then came home to realize I need to ask a very important question, like does it have a power outlet inside the cab. I call and of course they closed 2 mins after I left, so I call the national # and they tell me I have to request it, so I get to call the local office tomorrow. If I don’t get a power outlet I am soooooo screwed… I will have to turn the GPS on/off all day just so I have power as I drive 18 hours….

I also got a new GPS this week, the “Magellan Roadmate 2200T” and so far I think it is much nicer then the last one I had to send back that didn’t get a GPS signal in cities, still only one way to really test it and that is a road trip so we are looking into a few different options on where we can test this just so we know what to expect when it comes time to need it.

Never fails… Pool just got cleaned 1 hour ago…. Huge downpour outside now, but at least I can turn off the AC and enjoy the fresh smell of rain.

How Do I Feel?: pleased