This is the continuation of this post: Methodist Hospital (Part 1)
I highly recommend you read that long post first, as it contains all the back story and other bits this story might reference to. Lets continue to Part 2: Read more…
I normally do not put personal information on my site. I try to avoid talking about my family, or any other information like that. Partially because I’m paranoid and I don’t want me or my family easily researched/cyberstalked. But the absolute absurdness of what happened to me and my Family at Methodist Hospital requires me to share it. Read more…
I hate the public. The people. The places. The percentage of idiots is just astounding. Alas, I still need to go to public places. Stores, restaurants, so on and so forth. Yes I could cut a lot of that out by other means, but I’m lazy and am not going to cook every meal I eat, or grow my own food.
Recently while I was out enjoying a very high quality expensive dinner with my family (read: I was at Denny’s), I was able to witness great, and horrible parenting within the same meal. It was amazing. Read more…
Never in my life have I seen a company so mismanage an order, and have little to no information about what’s going on in their business than I have with HP.
As I mentioned HERE, I am one of the unlucky few in limbo with HP and trying to get their discounted Touchpad tablet. I was able to get a successful order through, but it still hasn’t been processed. This is how they’ve lost me as a customer… Read more…
This story is about Hewlett Packard (HP) and their TouchPad fire sale, the first part is kind of a summary for those who aren’t aware, then the ironic/retarded twist in my adventure into the fire sale.
To bring you up to speed if you are a none techie person: HP released a Tablet about 2 months ago called the TouchPad. About two weeks ago they announced they were scuttling their consumer hardware division, specifically the Tablets/Smartphone division. Last week/weekend, they announced they were going to liquidate the remaining stock of TouchPad’s in a huge fire sale. The remaining stock of TP’s that normally sold for $400-$600 was now going to be sold at $100-150 (depending on the model). More on the TouchPad’s history can be found HERE (See #10), and also HERE, and about the Fire Sale HERE
What ensued was a mass geek grab up. It was as bad as Black Friday, or the release of a next gen console/Apple product. Online stores servers nearly crashed, stock at certain locations went in minutes (Walmart, Target, OfficeDepot, Staples, you name it).
HP’s EPP site sold out almost instantly, as did it’s consumer site. And HP’s Small Business site had an error. They listed the Touchpads at the fire sale price, but when you added them to the cart they showed as the original $399+ price.
My wife has said she wanted an ebook reader every now and then, and $100 for an item that can do that and much more was a bargain. So I attempted to get me one, and that’s where my adventure begins.
Recently I was dining with some family at a restaurant of their choosing. It was a decent enough Chinese (Asain?) cuisine type establishment. Friendly wait staff, decent decorations, and a pleasant atmosphere. Everything was good, until they brought us our drinks.
When browsing some movies lately I watched the movie ‘Super Size Me.’ It’s about a guy who eats nothing but McDonald’s for a whole month, blah blah blah, bad for you, etc etc. It got me thinking about the option at most fast food places. Read more…
Simple quick post. Sams Club in my area of San Antonio TX has started the Christmas Creep season subtly. For those of you who don’t know, Christmas Creep is the process in which stores start putting their Christmas decorations/items for sale up months in advance of Christmas. Read more…
The other day I posted this story about Brake Check and how I thought they were giving me the shaft on a simple brake job. Well, when I shared the article on Twitter I made sure to include them to let them know of how I felt. They replied. Read more…
A few months ago I bought me a used car. A nice 2001 [CAR] (I don’t need to tell you what I drive dammit). Well, as it has over 100,000 miles certain things are bound to go wrong with it. Recently there was a weird noise coming from my back tire(s). I say noise because it was like a squealing, but not like a squealing. Like a grinding, but not like a grinding. I don’t really have a way to describe the sound.
After some thinking I decided it most likely was a brake problem (This should be no shock to anyone reading this, as the title says BRAKE CHECK in it). So on my way home from work I swung by Brake Check. For those of you who do not know, Brake Check is like a Jiffy Lube, but for brakes. And for those of you that don’t know what a Jiffy Lube is, it’s a chain of Oil Change stores. Welcome to 2011. From this point on I’m not gonna spell a lot out to you. There will be all kinds of mechanical terms in relation to brakes on a car. Go look it up if you don’t understand. Read more…