"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"

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

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