Passed Mustard

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To: Miki Wireless

I'm still pretty sore about this incident I had a few weeks ago.  I'm not sure why he started yelling at me, and I don't really care, but I don't think that's a way to treat a customer. I state a fact that the digitizer glass had been loose since I bought the iPod, and that one day it popped up again, and after I pushed it back it stopped working. Next thing I know I get a lecture about how it's not possible for the cable to be broken like it is.  I'm not stupid I know it can't happen without force, and since I brought the iPod in with the glass attached, it was brought to the back of the store and he brought it out with the glass peeled off the frame and the cable broken I can't be sure who broke it me or him.  No I didn't have a receipt, and instead of helping me this repair guy decided to yell at me that what I say happened (loose glass popped up then stopped working) can't possibly happen.  To me this just hurts, and I've wasted my time there. What sort of store is this?  Why not use the motto "The Customer must leave happy" instead of the motto "How much can I take from this customer"?

What ended up happening was I got so mad I had to leave.  No way was I going to let him take advantage of me, and bully me into shelling out money that was probably his fault to begin with.  He never should have used that iffy frame, and really should have put new adhesive on it so it would actually stick, instead of that dust covered stuff he had used.  In fact I have a suspicion that it was actually the same frame I had on the iPod I brought in to get fixed before he sold my Dad that one.  Which means he stole my old frame.  If that's common practice, and so is yelling at a customer for your own fault, it's a wonder that Miki Wireless stays open.

Guess what?

It's just about time for a life update.  Not yet though, wait for it

Ever have one of those days

You're woken up early, told you have to get a new cell phone today, get dragged all around the city and come home without the cell phone?  And all while you are out people look down at you and treat you like you are stupid and snap at you.

Why is it when you want some customer service, you are told everything is your fault, and we don't do that here?  Shouldn't it be WE CAN'T HELP YOU, BUT I KNOW WHO CAN instead of WE DON'T DO THAT, AND I DON'T CARE WHO CAN?

Money money money

Everybody has some, most want more.  What sort of world do we live in were the pre-requisite of living is to have money.  I was in grade 2 when the taught me the barter system, which is the basis of all money exchange.  One PS3 is worth 2 weeks of part time work, or 1 week of full time work, or half my rent.  Which is the same as 2 months of groceries for one person, or 857 packs of the old Juicy Fruit.  That's a lot of gum.  I've paid more than twice the price of a PS3 in NSF fees these past 12 months, and a whopping $217 in the past 2 months.  I paid the full price of a PS3 to my mobile phone company because of one week in Cambridge.  I've also paid enough at 7-eleven this past year to pay for half a PS3.

You know looking at my trends on Mint.com has really made me aware of where all my money is going.  And I've noticed I'm paying way too much to my bank in NSF fees all because I'm too impulsive and pay my bills too early.  If I just waited till the companies that take out the money on there own are finished, I can pay off a bunch of others without incurring more NSF fees.  The only problem now is the negative balance on my bank accounts.

oblivion mods

I'm working on a mod right now that will put a Jester's Outfit into Oblivion.  yes that's right for the past 3 years I could have made a mod for oblivion, but I wait until skyrim is 2 months away before even starting.

Last day for Game Drift Linux

Well It's been fun seeing yet another Ubuntu on my gaming computer, but I just can't use it for gaming.  Wine isn't working well on my current video card, and GameDrift sucks for support.  I sent an e-mail 3 days ago asking if there was any reason why sound shouldn't work on crossover and wine.  No response, so I'm shirking this linux in favour of my old winXP install.  Luckily I had the foresight to make a back up of my hard drive before switching to GameDrift.  Unluckily I didn't have a working BartPE with DriveImage XML on it until today.  It took me a few tries , but it'll work now.  I used UBCD4Win, which I had to build using a VBOX hdd image I keep on my external for just such occasions.  long story short I had to add the following lines into dixml.inf

Normaliz.dll=2,,4
iertutil.dll=2,,4

This made driveimage XML work perfectly on my test VBOX session, and so now I am burning it to DVD and rebooting into windows to copy my back up onto my current internal hard drive.

Soon I will have a new video card, and after I install it I'm making the machine dual boot Windows XP and the proper Ubuntu 10.10 (because I hate 11.04 on a desktop).