annoyance

my payment on one of my cards was a few days late because of all the expenses ralted to the move.  i called them to tell them, and the first thing the guy says to me is "this is an attempt to collect debt."

and i'm like "no it's not, bucko!  this is the phone call to tell you that i just made a payment online.  and, if I called YOU, how exactly are you attempting to collect a debt?  do you owe me money that i should be demanding?"  so i grit my teeth and tell him nicely that we just moved, etc.  he tells me taht as long as the payment clears, my account will be back in goos tanding (my payment was for $30).  considering how much i've racked up and paid off on there already, if he's gonna be a prick about $30, he's either too dumb to know math or really not someone how's job should be talking to people.

he ends the conversation with "i have a quick question -"

i say ok

he says "are you financing a car?"

do you really want to give me money for a car when you're 'collecting' my 'debt' for $30?  asshole...

(i called back today to tell them they suck)

also

apologies for no movie yesterday - can't upload files because they're upgrading the system.  will go up when i can post it.

hee

yay abbit graduating!

i want pictures of all my people who got advanced degrees this year so i can post them in my new gunnt hats collection.

ha ha

checking my email and i have alot of spam.  much of it related to penis enlargement,.

reminded me of the time that my friend checked his email, turned to me, and woefully said "i'm getting a lot of email about penis enlargement.  how do they know?"

i love free things!

Avraham still needs a few referrals for a free PSP. 

Our anniversary is coming up.  HINT, HINT

re: the sefira chart mistake

as opposed to what you may have heard elsewhere, 5,000 poeple were not screwed up the mistake.  many of the people who would otherwise use the printed guide instead subscribe to the daily email service (I can tell you because i set it up, so i have access to the numbers.  booya).  also, the OU sent out a corrected version to OU Shuls immediately.  regaridng the halacha of it, in case anyone missed it, it's posted on the site that people shoud continue counting without a bracha.  and last, but not least, when the mistake was discovered, they opted to send out the Pesach Food Guides anyhow, because to re-print them would mean they wouldn't arrive at people's homes until after Pesach.

so yes, it's ok to write in and be annoyed; no, it's not okay to write in and demand personal phone calls with apologies because your wife is upset.  also not okay to reach me and yell at me about it and then hang up - do you really think the lowly webstaff-er you reach on the phone typesets, edits, proofs, and prints these things?  what can i do besides apologize a lot for a mistake i didn't make?

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teh funny:

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Yesterday @ 09:51 PM   Anchor   Email     What everyone else said . . . In the car, at the end, when Michelle said, "Are you sure you're okay?", I expected Jack to answer, "Sure, I've been dead before."