Category: heroes

07/10/06 08:00 - ID#36713

Insane(ly great?) day

Today was so nuts. I took the day off from work to appear in court to evict my upstairs tenant. I don't even want to go into the reasons, since in most circles, the mere thought of evicting a tenant immediately makes me evil. My crime is I bought the building and want to live in the best unit, and the only way to do that is to evict the tenant. (Even though he's on a month-to-month lease and only needs to give me 30 days notice to leave, but for some reason the only way I can get him out is to evict him. Which would make more sense if he was actually living there, but he's been subletting to someone else for 10 years now. And that's not even half the reasons I'm not getting into.)

Anyway, I don't want to evict him, so I pay him $14,000 instead. He wanted $36,000. But he knew damn well I'm only required by law to pay him and the woman who is subletting from him $1,000 each and give them 30 days notice, so they took my generous offer of $14,000 plus six weeks to move out instead. Meanwhile, I have to pay my lawyer god knows how much, but let's not get into that.

If that's not stressful enough, my iMac has been kind of problematic since I got it. ((e:Paul) has already lived through too much of my drama over this so I won't expose you to any more.) I started writing my 10 reasons to switch back to a PC (you have NO IDEA how sacrilegious - or as close to sacrilegious as I get - that is), and I finally hit 10 (actually it was 11, or more accurately the #1 reason caught me by surprise one more time and I was so pissed I wrote it up as 11) and I actually EMAILED THEM to STEVE JOBS! Signing it with my AppleCare number.

Well, as these things typically go, the next morning I felt pretty ashamed of the way I phrased #11 (among other things), but I'm thinking, there's no way Steve Jobs actually gets email from the general public, right? I mean, I just guessed at his email address out of frustration, it's not like I can email STEVE JOBS!!!! Right??!!!??? RIGHT????!!!!!!!

Well, wrong.

So Steve's vice president of executive relations just called me and we're setting up an appointment for my iMac with an Apple genius. Oh my god, I am so embarrassed. I will never swear at Steve Jobs again! I swear!

Of course, the down side of that is, I may still swear at (e:Paul) occasionally. It's not easy being my hero.

paul writes at 04:59:56 10/06/11 - Comment #65356: I forgot about that. It was like writing to the wizard of oz and actually getting a response. I remember being amazed.

jenks writes at 03:17:11 07/11/06 - Comment #9801: yeah, safari works for me for everything but estrip. I use firefox just for that.

twisted writes at 11:02:31 07/10/06 - Comment #9786: I am too embarrassed to even repeat my reasons here. Ok, I'll just tell you the first two. #2 is actually my top reason (and the one that also made a second appearance at #11), but I wanted to start the list with an Apple product so I put #1 first.

1) Safari crashes frequently - every hour!!! - for no apparent reason. Sometimes when I restart Safari I have to enable tabbed browsing again.

2) Firefox hangs when I try to attach files from a folder on my computer. The application stops responding, but Quit doesn't work and Force Quit is not enabled. I have to open a terminal window and kill the process.

It didn't help that both of these drastically impact my (e:time). I need to have Firefox running for estrip, and Safari running if I ever want to upload a pic to estrip (fingers crossed!) or to yahoo mail. When I slipped up and tried to upload a pic in Firefox and had to kill it at an inopportune time, I went a little ballistic.

I'm drafting my apology email as we speak. Maybe I'll send Steve my prized estrip bumper sticker as a peace offering. If I ever get one, haha.

zobar writes at 09:28:17 07/10/06 - Comment #9777: Ya, Steve mailto:steve@mac.com actually reads his email. [Well, maybe not him exactly, but important people or people with access to important people read it.] Which is weird, but kind of makes sense, because if you're emailing the president you're probably pretty God damned fed up.

At my last job we were having serious problems with Mac OS X Server's mail capabilities. While my boss and I struggled with technical solutions, the president emailed Steve Jobs. When he told us we kind of half rolled our eyes and half crawled under the desk out of embarrassment. Sure enough, the next day we got a call from the regional business manager offering any and all of his help. He still couldn't fix our mail server, but it's the thought that counts.

I also want to read the 11 reasons.

- Z

jason writes at 09:15:03 07/10/06 - Comment #9775: For fucks sake!

I hope you have money left!!!!!!

theecarey writes at 08:54:48 07/10/06 - Comment #9772: That is the coolest story! (Steve, not tenant)

Dont be (too) embarrassed! Something you said and how you said it certainly got the attention of someone in the right place (thanks, Steve-0). How often does that happen???!!! I wonder which reason # really got to them?
And soon, you shall have a fully functioning iMac. *high five* YAY