Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in complaints on Jul 3rd, 2008
If you ever need to visit the FedEx Ground distribution facility in Beltsville, Maryland I would recommend calling them first. The number is 301-210-5234, though the corporate customer service people at 1-800-GOFEDEX (1-800-463-3339) won’t tell you that. They’ll be happy to tell you its location — 11750 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705 (map) — but [...]
Posted in cars, complaints, culture on Jun 6th, 2008
People are going out to the movies less due to gas prices. That fact has been all over the media. I haven’t seen any stories and photos about the gas lines at the wholesale clubs, but they’re there. With gas prices hovering at $4 per gallon, people have also begun to realize the cost of [...]
Posted in complaints, travel, wireless on Apr 18th, 2008
I keep notes about the places I go when I’m on travel, about experiences with vendors good and bad. While a particularly bad place might stand out in my mind, I may forget when a place is just sub-par. If you don’t travel, the following probably won’t be of much interest.
When it comes to profit, [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, in the news on Apr 4th, 2008
The weight of everything is being lifted, one bit at a time. Lots of little things that I’ve been working on have finally come to fruition. My tax returns are completed and mailed. I contracted to have a new and improved splash image created for my placeholder site and am pleased with the results. Over [...]
Posted in cars, complaints, oddities, web sites on Feb 12th, 2008
I got a parking ticket in Federal Hill this weekend. The usual complaints about oddly worded parking signs aside, there’s no contesting that I was parked in the wrong place. I did, unknowingly, and I’m not worried. I have good karma when it comes to parking. I usually find it without too many problems and [...]
Posted in complaints, idiots, privacy on Jan 19th, 2008
I’ve been getting calls from San Antonio the last couple days. I don’t know anyone there. No one ever leaves a voice mail.
I got a call from 210-507-4450 on Wednesday, January 16th at 6:44pm.
I got a call from 210-734-4346 on Thursday, January 17th at 6:37pm.
I got another call from 210-507-4450 on Friday, January 18th at [...]
Posted in complaints, healthcare, idiots, privacy on Jan 7th, 2008
When I awoke today it was clear that I was going to need to buy some cold medication. Weis opens at 6, so I drove over there on my way to work. It turns out that the “good stuff” with pseudoephedrine isn’t on the shelf anymore thanks to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. [...]
Posted in complaints, site news, software on Dec 27th, 2007
I am being flooded with comment spam. Now I know I’m not special in this regard; everyone who uses the Internet has to deal with spam. Whether in email or comments, removal is always more tedious than detection. I’m not a huge fan of closed-source services, but Akismet has been doing an excellent job of [...]
Posted in complaints, life in general, money on Dec 22nd, 2007
The pile of bills and invoices on my desk piled up high enough that I felt compelled to organize. Aided by a rather eclectic mix of Busta Rhymes, Cake, Hooverphonic, Wyclef Jean, and Thievery Corporation I set out to file everything away properly. I have a system for it already, I had just been neglecting [...]
Posted in complaints on Dec 2nd, 2007
To Party City’s credit, their management decided to accommodate my request. My web form email was returned in short order, much to my surprise. After swapping a few emails with the District Manager for Maryland/Virginia, I was told that I’ve be able to return the pimp hat. I asked about the reasoning behind their restrictive [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, healthcare, things i'd like to see on Dec 2nd, 2007
Reading about that lingering bar smoke aroma that emanates from our clothes, it reminded me that I left Bateman’s Friday evening, my clothes reeking of stale cigarette smoke. I was only in there for 30 minutes and I didn’t see a single person actively smoking. It was all residual. This is a sharp contrast to [...]
Posted in complaints, office, plans on Nov 12th, 2007
It irritates me that I don’t have Veteran’s Day off. Technically it was yesterday, but it is being observed by the federal government today. In my mind today is a day to honor and respect those soldiers who have gone before us. Considering that my company provides solutions and support to a great number of [...]
Posted in complaints, things i'd like to see on Oct 30th, 2007
I’d like to see store policies that make sense. So many of them don’t. For example, I take issue with the return/exchange policy at Party City.
We will gladly accept returns and exchanges within 30 days of purchase with original receipt. Packages must be unopened. Returns on seasonal items such as Christmas, Easter and Halloween Costumes [...]
Posted in boozing, complaints on Oct 18th, 2007
I attended a business meeting at Dave and Buster’s yesterday. They have decent buffet food and private facilities large enough to do it, but there was one complaint that I heard repeatedly. The soda was flat. I heard this from several people after several trips to the drink station, where you’d think they’d be refilling [...]
Posted in cars, complaints, housing, life in general, music on Sep 5th, 2007
Listening to the soundtrack from Garden State, grooving to Thievery Corporation. That obviously doesn’t suck, but it certainly helps insulate me from the following.
My hot water heater is leaking water and might be on its last legs. The base shows signs of rust and the concrete below has signs of calcium build-up from water that [...]