Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on Jul 15th, 2008
So I switched us to AT&T to save a few bucks. I received the first bill and saw a charge of $8.95 for voicemail + $19.95 activation. Hmmm…I didn’t want to pay this and called them. They turned off voicemail, but won’t credit me for the activation. I argued that adding voicemail wasn’t an option [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 6th, 2008
Here in San Diego we have free trash pickup (for single family residences) due to the People’s Ordinance of 1919 which I believe came out of the city selling refuse to pig farmers and making money on it (hmmm, it would appear that the city leaders back then had some of the same issues of [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 23rd, 2008
I got my bill from MCI (The Neighborhood plan) the other day for our home phone service and saw that it jumped! After some research (viewing my invoice online was a nightmare because the server kept dropping my connection even when I tried from Windows), they raised my rate $10 per month. I’ve been a [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 22nd, 2008
Yesterday we went to our niece’s birthday party at a local park. When we pulled up, I found a perfect parking spot, but our only concern was that it was too close to the corner. I parked, we took a look and saw that it was fine. When I returned to the car later to [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 22nd, 2008
Today I saw an ad for a 1/4 ton folding chair. My take on this is that the chair holds up to 1/4 ton; the chair also looked a bit wider. Frankly, a chair that holds 500 pounds (presumably 1 person) is just gross. I understand that there is a market for it, but do [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 18th, 2008
Several months ago, a friend told me that a little known fact is that most residential faucets come with a lifetime warranty (OK, maybe not little known, but until I started ReceiptWallet, I could never find manuals/warranties). I put in our kitchen faucet when we moved in about 4 years ago. I noticed that it [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 13th, 2008
I like listening to music as silence is sometimes unnerving; I listen to music in the car and most of the time when I work. However, I’m not a music connoisseur and haven’t been to many concerts in my life. The few concerts I have been to, I really haven’t enjoyed because the music is [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 12th, 2008
I sat down in a session today and the person next to me was eating raw carrots. She (yes there are a handful of women here) kept crunching and crunching. I moved seats, but it was still annoying. Do people lack common courtesy or do they not realize the are disturbing my peace?
In another session, [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 11th, 2008
Babar is staying above me; I hear him stomping around. I was going to ask the front desk if they allowed animals in the rooms, but I’m not sure they’d get the joke. In most cases, heavy stompers don’t realize that they’re stomping, but what can I do about it? Going upstairs and confronting Babar [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 9th, 2008
When I was booking my flight to attend WWDC, I could fly into either SFO or Oakland. I’m been flying into Oakland for a long time anytime I’ve come into San Francisco. Back in 1995, the first time I came to Macworld San Francisco, I flew into SFO because I didn’t know better; I then [...]
