"good news, everyone!"

[jazzfish]

1) Package did indeed show up at Amelia's door, and was successfully retrieved.

2) It's possible to write the collections agency a letter and offer to pay them in full in exchange for having the entry removed from my credit reports. So. . . will see what happens with that. It's such a small amount that they may not want to bother, but, worth a try.

3) Google says:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,710 for "fucking verizon".
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,010 for "fucking cox".
Results 1 - 10 of about 745 for "fucking sprint".
Results 1 - 10 of about 371 for "fucking nextel".
Results 1 - 10 of about 358 for "fucking at&t".
Results 1 - 10 of about 307 for "fucking cingular".
Results 1 - 10 of about 245 for "fucking t-mobile".

Time to contemplate switching home internet service. On the other hand, I may as well stick with AT&T Cingular AT&T for cell.

4) Dinner in Silver Spring followed by gaming tonight, possible gaming tomorrow, small chance of meeting a new person on Sunday, and some hope of finding a cute taker for my spare Dar ticket for next Friday.

Comments

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I've only had one issue with Cox since I moved to Hampton Roads, and that was one of their departments not telling another of their departments that I'd had service activated.

They kept sending the same poor guy out to physically enable and then physically disable my service at the junction before someone finally realized that, no, I wasn't stealing cable.

Looking back on it, it's kinda funny.

[desfido.livejournal.com]

Why does Dar Williams insist on coming to town during a time of year virtually guaranteed to busy for students? Or, if she's going to do so, why does she have to be awesome enough that it's sad that this occurs?

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Rofl! Keep in mind that the number of dissatisfied customers does not reflect the percentage of dissatisfied customers. I think TMobile has a smaller base. But! G1!

[rbandrews]

My favorite tech blogger of all time, Steve Yegge, did a talk on branding once, and discussed GTE.

See, apparently they were the most hated phone company ever. In an effort to be less hated, they researched how long it would take people to forgive them. Apparently it takes 20 years, a generation, for a bad brand to stop being associated with badness.

So rather than wait 20 years they changed their name to Verizon.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Don't forget:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,280 for "fucking comcast"

[uilos.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect that that's the reason AT&T and Cingular keep changing names even though they're the same people.

[jazzfish]

Ah, this is quite true. Thanks for catching a pretty basic statistics mistake.

I'm sort of ashamed to admit that I'm considering picking up an iPhone after Xmas, and thus am stuck with AT&T for at least that long.

[jazzfish]

. . . okay, that's about the most awesome thing I have heard or am likely to hear all day.

[jazzfish]

It's been a very long time since I had cable. Aren't you basically stuck with whoever provides to your area? In my case that's Cox, or at least it's their fliers I get in my mailbox a couple times a month.

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Spare Dar ticket? Hey, I'm off Fridays. :)

Now, who would do such a thing?!

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

*cough*Philip Morris Altria*cough*

[plumbob78.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

DOn't be ashamed. I love my iPhone. I've had AT&T/Cingular for eight years and have never had a problem. I don't know whether I'm lucky or everyone else is not.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

In Woodbridge, our cable option was Cox; here in Bumpass, it's Comcast(ic!).

That said, we ditched Cox TV in favor of DirecTV because Cox's DVR sucked, and later ditched Cox internet in favor of Verizon DSL (cheaper and slightly faster); here, we'd like to do the same for Comcast internet as soon as Verizon brings us DSL, but satellite TV is blocked by trees.

(In Culpeper, our only high-speed internet option was HughesNet/DirecWay, which sucked in every way it knew how.)

[stephaniesmom.livejournal.com]

And they still suck.

Re: Now, who would do such a thing?!

[rbandrews]

They're a client of ours, actually. Altria. You know that they own Kraft, as well? They're like the kings of addictive substances; nicotine and cheese.

[rbandrews]

I've actually found AT&T to be pretty good this time around (ask me about the last time, when I lived with the Obs...).

Granted, I think they vastly streamlined everything for iPhone users. There's really only one possible plan, and it doesn't have charges for stuff they normally hugely overcharge for. Probably if I had a normal phone I'd hate them.

[jazzfish]

Sure, if you'd like to come up on Friday, ticket's yours. There's crash space available Friday night as well.

(Sorry for the delay; had to wait for a previous offer to expire.)

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Will email you.