Random thoughts:
Starting to see news items about hurricane season approaching, and how little progress has been made in the New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf regions.
Immediately following the hurricane, I came up with a solution - all of the ravaged area should be bulldozed, and then every household in the world should mail them a rock. Raise the level of the land a few feet, build seawalls with any spares, was the way I figured it. Think what a great international effort it could be, and how wonderful to see the area rebuilt with contributions from every corner of the earth. No worries about someone’s contribution lining the pockets of a corrupt person, the way financial donations did. No worries about FEMA screwing it up. Heck, if FEMA tried to get involved, the locals could throw their rock at them LOL
I think they’d be farther along than they are now. Want to start a “Mail a rock to the Gulf” campaign? LOL
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Can David Copperfield make David Blaine disappear? Please?
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I am tired of disgusting commercials. Please kill the Lamasil nail fungus monster. I don’t care how. Let the Mucinex snot-man (who looks eerily like Garrison Keillor) beat him to death with the Nasonex bee. For that matter, end all of the commericals for prescription medicines. My physician should tell me what medicine (if any) I need, not a friggin’ ad agency. No wonder health costs are so damned high. Spare me the warnings about erections that last more than four hours, genital herpes outbreaks, or side effects that cause anal bleeding and growing a third nipple.
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To Sprint: (yeah, I’m calling you by name, sticking a Technorati tag on you, going to your corporate blog, sending a postal letter and an e-mail)
~ WAKE UP! ~
It doesn’t matter how many nifty commercials you air, or how many features your phones have.
It doesn’t matter when the free minutes start, or how good your network is.
NONE of that matters if you can’t do customer service, and baby, you can’t. A person who orders a replacement unit should not have to call after ten days, and tell you it didn’t arrive when you said it would, only to be told that the order got lost. They should not have to re-order and wait another ten days. You screwed up - send it overnight express.
The activation should be simple. It should not involve hours of voice mail selections that end up as dead air. The ability to reach a human being should not be next to impossible. God bless that ONE woman in the Trouble Department who knew what she was doing, remained cheerful, and was competent enough to walk me through the 85 complex steps needed to manually activate my phone. Your system wouldn’t allow standard activation for the phone you sent me (after three weeks) because YOUR records showed that it was a Samsung, my original model. But YOU mailed me an LG phone as a replacement.
I was appalled. You should be ashamed.
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The kittens are doing fabulous - more pictures soon. Had a fabulous Tuesday night with the family. Gawd I love House and Boston Legal. (Happy sigh at being blessed with a family to exchange witty banter with LOL)
Peace and joy to everyone 
Categories: Television, Humor, Cats
Posted by Marti @ 
oh god! i also watched that news about david blaine doing another stunt. i just wanna say to him, “david, the 1920’s is soooooooooooo over.”
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:56 am
Isn’t David Blaine the one in the human aquarium? Meh…they should at least make it interesting and fill the tanks with a dozen sharks, and any other fish with sharp teeth. Then, they could let bystanders (for a nominal fee) take pokes at Blaine with a pointy stick.
The kittens are cute! Look forward to seeing more pics!!
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:49 am
LOL! I’ve wanted to kill that Euro-trashy Nasnex bee for a long time.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 am
Those of us with borderline ADD love “Shorts”.
The sending of a rock to NO is brilliant, for all the reasons you gave. I’ll say this for T-Mobile: I had my replacement phone in a day, via mail. Their service outside of metro areas sucks, by they replace phones quickly so you don’t notice that, I guess.
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Love the rock idea. My husband and son are “picking stone” off the fields we are planting. We have PLENTY!
Very much agree on the commercials; can’t even stand to hear them.
And, we have a Trac Phone, bought my stubborn son, against advice from anyone with a phone. Ten thousand emails and spam phone calls later I am ready to stuff it….well never mind.
May 4th, 2006 at 4:31 am
WOW:marti hope someones keeping the shot guns hid over there.lol
love to the kittens.
percy
May 4th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
LOL — your a riot.
My son had Sprint.. he had tons of problems with them.. they have so many plan changes…and their billing process fails to keep up with it.
Tks for stopping by my site the other day - via FTS. I’ll be back — i need more laughter in my life…
May 4th, 2006 at 10:42 pm