I just spent about 2 hours trying to pay our (e:strip) verizon FIOS bill enews,45145 for the server before the deadline. Seriously, I am not aggerating. (e:terry) also spent over an hour this morning. I have been transfered 11 times and each person acts like I am so crazy that I have FIOS but no verizon phone number. It's like they can't possibly beleiev it could be true.

The online system refuses to accept my account number. The account number on my bill doesn't match the one in the sample picture. Some of the agents can bring my account up, about half of them can't. The last one beofre this current transfer insisted that he could not look up the account by account number but would have to have a phone number.

I really don't have one - now I am back on hold for about 30 minutes. Fun.

it is just like the Time warner commercial where the guy can't figure out his verizon bill and asks the little red head kid named morton who also can't figure it out.

Shouldn't companies make it easy to pay a bill online?

P.S. Thanks everyone for not contributing. minus (e:tinypliny) and (e:museumchick)

Finally, I got in!

Everyone keeps asking me, so here she is: baby Fern.

Does anyone really need their web browser to do more. I think it sounds like a big mess. I was reading the article about how Mozilla is thinking about integrating IM/twitter etc with the browser and while I think it is neat to be able to surf togteher or whatever they are envisioning, what is the problem with having two apps running?

It seems there is this trend to start moving all sorts of other non-browser services into the browser. I keep reading all about the furure of the social browser and frankly I am not so into it.

To me it sounds like the old AOL paradigm with everything roled up into one package. Granted, they would surely integrate it better.

I actually prefer having separate apps in other arenas too. I am really getting kind of sick of huge scale applciations that try and do everything. A perfect example is the IDE eclipse. I love it, I use it everyday and for 90% of all programming tasks it does exactly what I need. However, the database management plugins are no where near as good as SQL Developer (oracle), Entereprise manage (MSSQL) or any of the mysql GUIs. Frankly, for mysql I just prefer the command line. But really I would rather have a separate app for the database management because a lot of times it hangs when using eclipse and then I risk damaging or losing all the code /projects I have open. I just hate having to wait while it thinks or suffer when it crashes. I would rather let the database management program think and switch back to eclipse to continue programming.

Same for my browser and IM.

I missed the gym because of the rain storm;(

For dinner I decided to made broiled calamari. When I opened the package I couldn't believe how big they were. Look at it compared to my finger. Same brand as usual just supersized for some reason, yum.



My stomach is really sick today, damn crohns. I have a big presentation tomorrow about the direction I am taking things with my new job.

Oh and (e:lilho) arrives tomorrow, whoohoo!

I was trying to figure out how many days I need to take off for vegas 15-25th + 1 day recovery 26th. And I was worried because its like 8 days and I didn't know if I had that many, then I looked at my pay stub and I have like 23 days of vacation time. I guess I haven't gone on vacation in so long, holy crap. I can't wait to go back to the grand canyon.

I found this in line at HSBC while waiting for (e:enknot) to do some
banking. I can't believe someone bothered to write this kind of math
out.