The Last Samurai

Watch it.

And I Know

As I was counting out at work tonight a familiar face came up to the counter. It was none other than the Sultan of Slay. I decided the right thing to do was sit down and catch up with everyones favorite Christian contradiction. Nothing has changed. Hes still high on life and ready to evangelize. What really cracks me up is, one of the first things he said to me was "I was just thinking about calling you!" Yeah right.

Guaranteed Satisfaction Or Your Money Back

Sometimes you just have to take a shower after you get done using the bathroom. I just did.

Birthpool

Congratulations Shedu and Crazymom for the birth of your new baby.

You Shook Me So Hard Baby

For the last couple months ago we decide that it would be a good thing to have the cable hooked up in the living room. Weve got the big TV and entertainment center and everything in the basement but what if you need to make some dinner and you dont want to miss a second of the game. St. Marys 7s mom was giving away a TV stand that they werent using anymore so we took it and put our old TV on it in the living room right next to the cable jack. I grabbed some coaxial from the wires box and hook it all up. No signal. I go down to the basement to make sure the cable is working and it is. I check the main line into the house and find that when the cable guy came to run a line over to our computer he also took the liberty of disconnecting all the other wires in the house and put a 2 way splitter where there had previously been a 5 way splitter. No worries right? Just plug one of the loose wires in instead of one of the curent ones to make sure it works and then go get a 3 way splitter from Radio Shack. Wait what? None of the other wires work? Theres no cable down here going to that outlet. HMMM. I let this sit for a little while because I really didnt believe that this was all true and was trouble shooting it all buy myself.

Yesterday The Ugly Kid and I gave this matter a good looking into and came up with the same conclusion. There was in fact no TV going to my TV. I called the Comcast up to see how they felt about this situation. What I was told was that when they came and ran the line to my computer they disconnected all the lines that werent being used. They do this because it improves your signal and you get less interference. Great! Now, why didnt they tell me they were going to do this? Had I known that that was what was going to happen, I would have told them to leave the line going up to the living room because there is a chance that we are going to put a TV there. Rather they just did what they felt was right and now it is going to cost me $20 to have them come back and reverse the problem that they created.

That is not where our story ends though. I told mister customer service expert that I had no intention of paying $20. Im sorry but thats what we charge sir. Then I put it to him this way. If I call an electrician to put a new outlet in my house he doesnt cut power to all the outlets that Im not using just because it will create a more consistent flow of electricity to the ones I am using. He leaves them the way they are and they will work when I plug my lamp into them. That is what your wire boy should have done when he came here. He wasnt called because the signal was too weak. The signal was just fine. All he was supposed to do was add a wire. There was silence for about 2 minutes. He didnt say a word and I was waiting for him to do the right thing. He didnt. Finally I asked to speak with his supervisor. He said that wouldnt be a problem. A couple minutes later he returns and says he talked with the supervisor and THEY agree that I shouldnt have to pay. "Obviously it wasnt properly explained to you." He says to me.

His Goal In Life Was To Be An Echo

You may or may not remember my post about Discount Tire in late June. To sum it up they fucked up on multiple occasions and I was not happy about it. Well, the saga continues.

A couple months ago I put a new tie rod end on the driver side of the Green Fever. To do this I had to take the tire off which meant loosening the lug nuts. These lug nuts were unlike any lug nut Id ever seen before. Theyre kinda 6 sided but they had little gutters rather than points where the sides intersected each other. I got the tire iron out and had to use the smallest size (17mm) to get them off and it would slip occasionally. I got them off and changed the tie rod and put the tire back on.

Today I planned to change the tie rod on the passenger side. I loosened 4 of the 5 nuts but could not get the last one to come off. It would slip every time I put alot of pressure on it. WTF. This mother fucker will not come off. I try every 6 sided nut turning device in my garage and they all slip. The ugly kid shows up already angry at the parts store chic for not ordering his parts and we decide to go up to Discount Tire.

We arrive and I explain to the guy whats happening. With a look of disbelief he says "lets go out there and take a look at it. I show him to the tire and get out the tire iron. As Im putting it on the lug nut he says "Wheres the key?" The key? Where IS the key? Thats a good question. Its obvious now that you need a key that fits the lug nuts to take them off. Where could that key have gone? Oh, I know. IT NEVER LEFT THEIR SHELF 4 MONTHS AGO WHEN I BOUGHT THE LUG NUTS. They never told me I needed a key and certainly didnt give me one. Mother fuckers.

3 strikes and youre out right? I wish it was 3 strikes and youre forced to close youre business. Those stupid mother fuckers fucked my order up 3 times. 3 times! Un fucking believable. I will never spend another penny at Discount Tire and you shouldnt either. (Unless youre my dad and you deserver to be fucked over.)