Writing Stuff

I've just started a new blog with the completely unoriginal title of Time Warner Cable Sucks . I've grown tired of the continued issues that I've experienced with Time Warner Cable's internet service (RoadRunner) over the past year and have decided to document them on a blog. I'll be posting regular daily and nightly speed test results to show how things change depending on the time of day. If I call support to request assistance, I'm going to document what the representatives say and suggest as a possible fix for the issue, if any is provided. I'm hoping to garner the attention of someone at Timer Warner Cable that cares. All I was is to receive at least close to what I'm paying for. Having regular slowness that delivers 1/6th-1/10th of the advertised speed is completely unacceptable and should be exempt from the "up to" claim that goes along with their advertising of speeds. I don't need, and am not asking for, the absolute fastest spee...

I'm not a huge fan of insurance policies for products or anything that has a monthly fee, but I think I've finally found something that's a pretty good deal. I've been on a Banfield Optimum Wellness Plan  for my dog Charlie  for a bit over a year now and just recently upgraded him to the next step up which includes the cost of a teeth cleaning once a year. It's $40 a month, which sounds like a lot but is actually kind of a good deal. The plan we were on previously included free doctor visits and the standard yearly check-ups as well as all of his shots whenever they were due. We really needed to get his teeth cleaned, however, and when I called to schedule the appointment I was told that it would be $200, or I could upgrade to the next plan which included it for free. The difference in cost between the plan that I had and the new $40/month plan was $180 a year, so it's actually a $20 savings to upgrade. Sweet! Many people feel that pet wellness plans (not in...

My car got hit by a driver that ran a red light a couple of weeks back. The damage was fairly minimal and everyone was okay, so that's good. Thankfully the other driver admitted fault right off the bat and then again to the police officer when he showed up. This made my life extremely easy in a situation that could've turned quite annoying had he tried to take advantage of the fact that I'm much younger than him. I hear horror stories of people getting screwed over by other drivers that were at fault by getting you to say things you shouldn't or pressuring them to settle instead of going through insurance. Thankfully I didn't have to deal with any of that. The other guy's insurance company was pretty cool and handled things very professionally. They immediately got me set up with a free rental car for the duration of the case and promptly sent out a check written out in my name that I received just a couple of days after they sent it. I had the rental car for ...

Twitter is a great tool for keeping in touch with friends. I find that it's much more useful than Facebook for staying updated with what everyone is up to. Not all of my friends use Twitter yet, but I feel like I'm better versed in what my friends are doing when they're using Twitter at least semi-frequently. I believe that part of the reason for this is that Twitter makes it incredibly quick and easy to spew your thoughts to the collective. Not only is Twitter easy, but it forces you to be concise which then spurs more frequent updates. I definitely find that I'm more likely to Tweet a bunch of things throughout the day than I am to spend to time to write out a blog post like this one. This means that I'm putting more thoughts out there and talking about more things that I'm doing, thus keeping my followers tighter in the loop. Not only has Twitter been great for keeping up with my friends, but I've had great luck with giving and receiving customer servic...

I really hate Time Warner Cable but more specifically their internet division, RoadRunner. There's not a whole lot of things that I hate in life, but Time Warner Cable is definitely one of them. Every since they bought out Adelphia in my area, all of my services from them have been absolutely terrible. The quality of service dropped overnight, as if they said "let's find a way to gouge our customers even more... I know, let's just make the service shit and charge them more every year!" For the first week after the acquisition my television signal was a mess. I'd get constant picture drop-outs and audio would cut out for 30 seconds at a time. This went on for at least a few months. During that time my internet service became completely unreliable, dropping out completely a few days a week. Calls to customer service always returned the "Everything looks fine on our end." deal which has started to make me throw up a bit in my mouth every time I hear it....

I love procrastinating for some reason. There's just something about waiting until the last minute to do something that finally gets me motivated to do it. Take this morning as an example. I've known that I'll be leaving to go over to my mother's house around 9:30AM so that we can get on our way down to San Diego for the annual Miramar Air Show for months now. I haven't packed yet. Sure, it's just an overnight stay but there's clothes, food, and alcohol to bring and I've gotten none of it ready. Even as I write this I'm procrastinating even more, trying to write more than there is to write about this to further delay having to actually put stuff in a backpack. In fact, the only thing productive I've done all morning is gotten dressed and taken the dog out to piss in the chilly (finally) air. The clothes I chose to get dressed in aren't the ones I'll even be wearing today and I haven't showered so really the only thing useful I've...