My friend ordered an iPhone with Fido. They renewed her contract and said, sure, we’ll send you one right away!! A few days later she received the email confirmation, and a few days later again she got an email with the UPS tracking number for her new phone. Delivery was supposed to be superfast, one day later! Well, the day arrived, but her iPhone didn’t. Although on the UPS website it stated that the package was “On the truck for delivery”, the truck never arrived at her house. Since it was a Friday, the delivery got rescheduled to Monday. Again, the item was marked as “on truck for delivery”, but it didn’t get delivered. Highly suspicious by now. A few phone calls later she realizes that UPS lost her package! NO!!!! And she cannot complain, because it’s Fido who has to do the tracing. She finally gets someone from Fido on the line that will put a tracer on the package, and she’s being told to wait 96 hours. After 96 hours, she calls Fido back. Nobody has put any tracer on any package, apparently.
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Dear Mr. Jobs, There is talk about iPhone 5 already. There is talk to discontinue the free bumper program by the end of this month. Lots of upgrades are coming out, HDR photography, iMovie, games that are more fun with gyro and higher resolution. Yet over a month from the Canadian launch day, there are STILL no iPhones available from Rogers. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Well, yeah, at the Apple store, but it’s a 2 hour drive to one of the two stores in the city of Vancouver, and you have to line up at 3 AM in the morning, HOPING that there will be a shipment that day. I can’t waste my time with a gamble like that, I work for a living. I work so I can buy the iPhone 4, which I can afford (subsizided) but cannot find.
I don’t know if it’s a Rogers or an Apple problem. Either way, it sucks.
I don’t know if you know about the situation, and I don’t know if you could even do anything to improve it.
And I don’t know if my email is going to make any difference at all, but hey, venting is worth somethin’.
Have a wonderful day.
Karin
Owner of an iPhone 3GS,1 iPad, 2 iMacs, 1 iPod Classic, 1 Apple TV, 1 Airport Extreme and if you would make toaster ovens I’d buy one too, provided I’d be able to find one.
It’s a perfectly fine mid-April day. The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting, and my neighbour’s powerwasher has been pounding for the past hour or so, while he’s washing his perfectly spotless driveway. Has nobody ever heard of a broom??
Every weekday morning I drive to work at 7:20 AM. And every morning I see this gentleman on the street, walking down the road, rain or shine, with a white plastic shopping bag in hand. The white plastic shopping bag is always full. He walks along the road and picks up what everyone else threw out: wrappers, cans, bottles, styrofoam, plastics, papers, scraps of who knows what. He collects all the bits and pieces of garbage from the side of the roads, left on the way down, right on the way up, and probably brings it home and throws it out with his own trash once a week. By the time I meet him at 7:25, he is already on his way back up the hill, half way home, but the bag is already full. And I am wondering how his bag can be full, since he had been there the day before, and the day before that and the day before that and so on. Why is his bag always full, and he hasn’t even fishing his whole walk yet? Doesn’t that simply mean we’re all pigs, really?
I’ve driven by the man for years, and I often I feel the need to stop and say “Thank you for cleaning up after us all…” but I never do. Maybe I’m afraid I’ll get yelled at. Maybe I’m afraid he’ll look at me funny and doesn’t even want to be talked to. Who knows. I am thankful he’s doing it, and I just hope that one day I’ll see him on his way back home with a bag that looks… empty.
So, what is it that makes people not use their blinker? Are they afraid they get laughed at and made fun of, if they signal too early? I mean, when you go down the street and you see your destination, you know that now you have to stop and turn, but first, BEFORE hitting your brakes, you should signal and tell the person behind you “Hey, I am going to step on my brakes right about now!”. Yes, you say, I always signal when I turn. Ok, I say, but why is everyone signaling only AFTER they already stepped on their brakes, or slowed down to a crawl, making the driver behind them wondering if their car is breaking down or if they’re drunk… What is it about the blinker that people don’t want to touch it? When people are trying to drive into an intersection, and you are coming along and you are NOT going to drive straight through, but taking a turn, LET THEM KNOW by signaling, and they will be thankful. Very often, your blinker, your signal lights, are the ONLY way you can communicate with the other drivers. You love Facebook, and Twitter, and email and all that but you are refusing to use your other communication device – your blinker. Oh, and when you’re done changing lanes on the highway, and you were nice enough to signal first, don’t forget to turn your blinker OFF. If you cannot hear your blinker going, your music is probably on too loud.
Let’s not panic, everyone, ok? Yesterday alone I’ve been sent two different YouTube links with videos that are stating that the government is going to try to force everyone to get the flu vaccine because they want to DEPOPULATE the planet. WTF?? I think quite a few people have seen too many scary movies. Yes, I am not going to get vaccinated, at least not yet, because I don’t like the adjuvants and the mercury in the flu shot (despite the fact that the flu vaccine could be produced without either of those things, it just would cost more and take longer to make), but I don’t believe anyone is out to get us. I do believe that the pharmaceutical industry is trying to get rich on this one, and that there is more panic about the stupid swine flu than there should be. Yes, maybe the swine flu has even been created in the lab in order to sell more vaccines, sure, what the heck, I might even believe that. But mass murder? That is really going too far. Please don’t get all wound up about this whole thing vaccine thing. The one thing I like about this whole commotion is that people are finally going to question what exactly is going to be put into those needles, and ultimately into their bodies. Get informed, make your choices but USE COMMON SENSE.
A call-back from the hospital for more scans is never a good sign. Darn it, its exactly what I did NOT want to happen. I went for my first ever Mammogram last week, since I am 41 now and I should have regular check-ups. But I did not expect them to actually find something. All I wanted was peace of mind, and now that’s exactly what i don’t have. I called my sister and she said “That’s why I don’t have those tests done!” I don’t know if I agree with her, but hey, ignorance can be bliss sometimes. What I am going to do for the next 9 days I don’t know. And then after the scan, who knows how long I have to wait until I get some more results? Awful, just awful. This year, so far, is one of the worst years I have come across in a long time. I know getting older is never easy, but it’s kinda hard to stay positive. I also know that a lot of worse things could be happening, but somehow, I kinda don’t know now what could be worse. Ok. I can think of a couple. I guess. Positive… think positive, Karin…
They’re baa-aack.
On this sad day the NHL will be back on the ice, after a very relaxing, one-year break. I couldn’t believe my luck last year when the season got cancelled. No hockey talk, no kids playing on the street, just peace and quiet.
Ice Hockey and Lacrosse (which is just a hybrid of hockey) are the only sports in the civilized world where players are allowed to beat each other up during the game on the field, in plain sight for everyone to see. Sure, they get a penalty… TWO FLIPPIN’ MINUTES! If you know soccer, you know that if you would ever attack another player on (or off) the field, you’d get banned from the game for at least two months!!! I don’t think it sets a good example of sportsmanship if players start fist fights during the game, and if this is a normal occurence that “belongs” to the game.
I do not want my boy to play hockey when he gets older. I want him to learn that beating people up or intimidating them is NOT part of fair play.
Hockey rules should have to change. Fights are not part of the game. And if they don’t get it, hockey should be banned and not broadcast on TV anymore. I know hockey is part of the Canadian history, but just because something has been done a certain way for a long time, doesn’t mean it makes it right.
What an afternoon, what an evening! Thomas was driving me bonkers. He was so whiny, I almost went right up the wall. It is so hard to control the anger when he is like that, and I had to keep reminding myself that maybe he is breeding some kind of a cold or flu, and that’s why he was so grumpy. He kept saying that he was in a bad mood, and that he had to whine because of that. He didn’t want to eat nothing but candy, he didn’t want to play (except on the computer), he didn’t want to read books, only watch TV. Yes, and eventually I did put him in front of the TV, because after 3 hours I couldn’t stand his whining any longer.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Well, you never know. Maybe I lost some weight today.
