Monday, January 24, 2011
Bull Durham
Since we STILL do not have cable (fuck you verizon) we watched a dvd last night. Peter picked Bull Durham since I hadnt seen it, but I like baseball and was likely to enjoy this movie. I thought it was an ok movie, but I think something was lost in that I waited so long to see it and saw all the other copycat movies first, and had heard all the famous quotations from that movie already. Also i did NOT like susan sarandon's character. I did like tim robbins in that movie, I dont think i've seen him in a role like that before so that was cool. Kevin Costner always plays the same but thats alright. I completely see the appeal, but I dont think i'll be watching it again.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Dinner For Schmucks
We finally watched this movie. It was the only movie my whole family could agree on to get ondemand in cape cod....and boy was it a weird movie. There were a few (very few) actually funny parts that had us all laughing. When the movie ended there was silence, then someone said "well that was weird" and we all went off to bed. Later peter made a comment that I thought was pretty true, that at no point in the creation of the movie did anyone say "is this too weird, should we really be doing this" instead they green lighted every idea that anyone had.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
I'm very annoyed with Verizon and Regan National Airport right now
which to rant about first....
I'll start with verizon b/c i already explained the first part of the problem. Today was the day they had rescheduled to....and to noones surprise they called yesterday to reschedule us to the 31st. If anyone thinks thats remotely reasonable let me know. Dont forget the initial instillation date was supposed to be the 8th...which means we started dealing with them in december...in 2010. The issue is there are no more FIOS ports in the building, which as we've been told is an easy fix to just open up a new box....why its taking them almost a month to do so I have no idea. Fuck you verizon.
On to regan national. Last night i had an 8:30 flight from boston to dc. When we got there it was delayed due to "light snow" in dc, and after a while the plane still hadnt left dc. We had a total delay of about 3 hours before we finally took off. Once we landed at 12:30 there were no available gates...so we sat on the tarmac for over an hour. a gate finally opened up and the jetway was frozen and they couldnt move it to us. They finally moved it as close as they could and there was still a 4 ft gap b/c the plane parked in the wrong spot, so they towed us to the right spot. When we got to the taxi line they were loading as many groups into the same taxi as possible, so we were the 3rd stop along the way...each group paying 20 bucks. we finally made it home at 2:30 am. Fuck you Regan National Airport.
I'll start with verizon b/c i already explained the first part of the problem. Today was the day they had rescheduled to....and to noones surprise they called yesterday to reschedule us to the 31st. If anyone thinks thats remotely reasonable let me know. Dont forget the initial instillation date was supposed to be the 8th...which means we started dealing with them in december...in 2010. The issue is there are no more FIOS ports in the building, which as we've been told is an easy fix to just open up a new box....why its taking them almost a month to do so I have no idea. Fuck you verizon.
On to regan national. Last night i had an 8:30 flight from boston to dc. When we got there it was delayed due to "light snow" in dc, and after a while the plane still hadnt left dc. We had a total delay of about 3 hours before we finally took off. Once we landed at 12:30 there were no available gates...so we sat on the tarmac for over an hour. a gate finally opened up and the jetway was frozen and they couldnt move it to us. They finally moved it as close as they could and there was still a 4 ft gap b/c the plane parked in the wrong spot, so they towed us to the right spot. When we got to the taxi line they were loading as many groups into the same taxi as possible, so we were the 3rd stop along the way...each group paying 20 bucks. we finally made it home at 2:30 am. Fuck you Regan National Airport.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Verizon is the worst
So we moved over the course of the past 11 days. Inorder to keep the bills straight we decided that I would no longer be incharge of the Verizon bill, so at this good transition time I canceled my account at the old place, and peter started an account at the new place. We were all set for a January 8th install. Joe even came over to protect me from the strange guys (thanks Joe!) and I took a day off work. We got the confirmation email two days before, and were all set for our 8-12 window.....the window came and went.
I called verizon to see if there was any way we could reschedule for that same day so I didnt have to lose a second day of work. When she pulled up our account, she found that they had canceled our appointment WITHOUT NOTIFYING US. The reason for the cancellation?? They claim there is no FIOS in our building, which we know from experience is NOT TRUE. After an hour and a half on the phone we were able to verify that we did infact have FIOS in the building, but could not send over someone in the near future since the dispatchers still have the note that there is no FIOS in our building and we'd have to wait 24-48 hours to resolve that. The soonest they could re-schedule was the 18th!!!
Clearly we called back over the weekend, and as of sunday they still think we have no fios in our building, and we still have to wait till the 18th. JERKS>
I called verizon to see if there was any way we could reschedule for that same day so I didnt have to lose a second day of work. When she pulled up our account, she found that they had canceled our appointment WITHOUT NOTIFYING US. The reason for the cancellation?? They claim there is no FIOS in our building, which we know from experience is NOT TRUE. After an hour and a half on the phone we were able to verify that we did infact have FIOS in the building, but could not send over someone in the near future since the dispatchers still have the note that there is no FIOS in our building and we'd have to wait 24-48 hours to resolve that. The soonest they could re-schedule was the 18th!!!
Clearly we called back over the weekend, and as of sunday they still think we have no fios in our building, and we still have to wait till the 18th. JERKS>
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