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[Sep. 14th, 2006|07:55 pm] |
College student: i got something in the mail
College student: it's a voucher for 1,600 in travel dollars
College student: "your responsible financial history has earned you this 1600.00 travel voucher." ???!!!
Me: it's not real.
College student: how did they get my address?
Me: bought it from someone
College student: it looks really real
College student: which is probably how they scam people like me |
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[Sep. 10th, 2006|08:51 pm] |
Mac Users live in a different world than the rest of us
Mac User: You know how iPhoto has a library for every year... 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Me: Yes
Mac User: How do I create one for 2007?
Me: I think it will do that automatically when you add photo taken in 2007
Mac User: Well, I added some photos, and it didn't create a 2007 album
Me: You added photos taken in 2007?
Mac User: Oh, I guess not. Huh, that one stumped me for half an hour.
Rushing the cashier
While waiting in the checkout line at Shaw's today, I was reading the sign about the "Xtreme Value of the Week," which is just some item on a special discount. This week it was some Gatorade Propel flavored water thing. Anyway, it said that if the Cashier didn't offer you the item before stating your total, you get one free. So before the cashier finished with the previous customer, I had my discount card held out. As soon as he handed it back to my, I stood by the credit card machine with my credit card out.
Cashier: Your total is 26.25
Me: You owe me a bottle of that water.
Cashier: What?
Me: The sign says you have to offer it before you state my total or I get a free one.
Cashier: Awww.
Me: Thanks! |
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| The joys of moving |
[Aug. 15th, 2006|09:45 pm] |
As many of you know, GE is moving my stuff across the country. They contract it out all the relocation stuff to Cartus. Cartus contracts out the actual movement of goods to Barrett Moving and Storage. Barrett contracts out the pickup to some local place, the haul to United Van Lines, and the dropoff to some local place.
The local place in California picked up all of my stuff on July 27 and took it to their local warehouse. I was given a delivery window of August 5-15 by Barrett. I called Barrett about August 3 and they said it was on its way, so I was hopeful for a delivery near the beginning of last week. I called Barrett on August 9 and they said it's halfway across the country according to the United dispatcher, likely to arrive "toward the end of the window".
Having heard nothing from them since, I called my contact at Barrett yesterday and they said they'd call United and call me back. They called back, couldn't get anything out of United, which seemed kinda odd. I called again today, slightly annoyed, and got the same "I'll call United and call you back." This afternoon I got a call from the supervisor of my contact at Barrett. Due to some sort of miscommunication (and outright lies from United), my stuff wasn't loaded on the long-haul truck until today.
If you look at your calendars, today is also the end of their delivery window. The supervisor said it "could be here next Monday or Tuesday" which is unfortunately after I start work. Meanwhile, thanks to Cartus' contract with Barrett (and likely Barrett's contract with United), I get $250/day starting tomorrow until my stuff is available for local delivery. |
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| Winter Break |
[Nov. 17th, 2005|10:10 pm] |
Is going to be awesome.
I'll arrive in SB from Seattle at 10:20 on the morning of the 23rd and I leave at 8:10 on the evening of the 3rd for Boston.
47.2 days until the snowy place
169.6 days until I walk |
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| The USPS is retarded. |
[Oct. 4th, 2005|02:11 pm] |
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I went to send a small 3 lb package. The guy rang it up and said $8 and change.
I looked at the much larger "$7.70 FLAT RATE (any weight)" box on the wall, and asked how this box could be more expensive.
He suggested putting my small box inside a larger flat rate box. So I did.
I attempted to fill the remaining volume with rocks, but the gardners yelled at me, so I settled for packing peanuts.
As I was walking back to my room, I saw some small scrap steel plates. If only I had seen them sooner. |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2005|05:00 pm] |
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Wind tunnel testing today was an absolute disaster. Nothing went right, and we can't get any data.
Hopefully he'll be nice enough to withhold our grades and we'll finish this project in the fall.
And I lost my ID card. Fuck.
248 hours
378 days |
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[Jan. 13th, 2005|10:41 pm] |
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If you notice that my entires on your friends page disappeared, well, they did.
I needed to make some changes.
#d rocks, everyone should be cracking RC5-72. Context failure over! :) |
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[Jan. 12th, 2005|04:41 pm] |
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America West dropped the price on my spring break ticket by $100 today. Sounds good to me.
My dad wants to fly out to NYC for the 2 days I'm there. I liked my other roommate option better.
Seventy minus one days, I can't wait to be there. I hope she calls tonight.
While I was sitting in Optical Fibers today, I thought to myself "I got tech elective credit for my private pilots license, maybe I can get credit for my instrument rating." A quick chat with the AeroEng chair and I'm off to records so they can make a copy of my pilots license and drop Optical Fibers. $900 tuition refund, since I no longer have a 1-credit overload.
And it's cold here. Bitterly cold. All of the puddles are frozen solid.
1655 hours
479 days |
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[Jan. 11th, 2005|11:11 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
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First fire alarm of the semester.
Oh wait, the semester starts tomorrow. Gah, I hate this dorm hall.
The weather here sucks. So cold.
She called! She needs to sleep more.
1672.5 hours
480 days |
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