Mixed Weekend
The first weekend has passed after finding health again. It’s been very eventful.
Saturday we headed down to a Cingular store to get Leah’s phone # changed. Up until now I’d been pretty happy with Cingular, but now I view them as every other cell phone company in the United States: Useless and criminal.
First obstacle: Sorry but we’ll have to break you two into seperate plans if she changes her number. What? We don’t want seperate plans, we just want a local number, I’m fine with mine. No, I don’t want to pay two $40 bills with less features instead of one $60 bill, thanks. Go ahead and change mine too.
Second Obstacle: Sorry but the plan you had is not available anymore, we have to upgrade you to the 700 minute/month plan. What? I don’t want a new plan, just new numbers. We don’t use our 450 minutes every month as it is, we have like 2000 rollover minutes for crap’s sake. But… they won’t change our number without it, so there is no choice.
Third Obstacle: Sorry but you have to get new Sim cards at $25 a peice. What? When I replaced my phone last year you sent me a new sim card for FREE even though I didn’t ask for it or want it, heck I still have it sitting in the package somewhere. But they wont’ change our numbers without it, so there is no choice.
So now I’m out $50, my cell phone plan is now $10 a month more than what I was paying, for features I don’t want and will never use, and I had no option in the matter if I wanted a single number changed. Needless to say when I receive the first bill I’m going to call up and give them heck until I get .. SOMETHING fixed. I doubt they’ll be able to give us back our old plan, but maybe I can wrangle a free phone or data cord out of it.
Moving on to the good stuff, we went to a party in Denton on Saturday night. It was a kegger, I don’t think I’ve been to a kegger since college, heck I didn’t even drink at this one! There were two bands that played, the first seemed pretty good, lots of dramatic chord progressions and decent vocals, the sound system was less than perfect so I couldn’t make out the lyrics all that well. You can give them a look here Czechers. Unfortunately the song they have up now pales in comparison to some of the stuff they put on the other night.
The second band was amusing to watch, but I couldn’t get into their style. They seemed to be quite good at their instruments, but I don’t even know what was going on half the time. I’m not sure what I’d categorize them as either, maybe a Jam band, but not the phish/dmb style, a lot more phrenetic and less rocky. Maybe Primus meets crystal meth (not the techno band either.) Despite their name–Satori, or is it cactus?–I must confess I didn’t understand.
Sunday I went to put up a blind we had custom cut for out back door. Unfortunately it was cut the wrong length, so I had to go back to lowes and get a replacement. Not too hard just frustrating. Moutning it was easy too, but shortening it to the right length took nearly 2 hours.
Tron is much better than I remembered. The effects they used were really amazing for their time, and I’m just sorry I was too young when I first saw it to fully appreciate how impressive it was. Boy is some of the lingo silly though. It was interesting to see them use correct and apt terms here and there for various aspects of computer programming/systems and then be so far wrong and ridiculous other times.
OH! We found our first black widow yesterday. We dug out the DDR mats from the garage and looky there, someone had made one of them a home. We smashed the sucker post haste, hopefully we don’t have many more. Luckily they’re completely non aggressive and reclusive, so we’ll just have to be careful when we get things out of the garage that have been sitting there in a while.
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Comment by omgcoolstuff@livejournal — June 26, 2006 @ 6:06 pm
wow, I can’t believe Cingular treated you like that. you probably should’ve called customer service instead of going to a store. it’s possible the store just didn’t have the training or knowledge of how to properly handle that request, or just wanted to be dicks and raise their sales figures. but who knows. perhaps Cingular really has it setup that way, but that would be a damn good reason to get away from them.
when I moved out here, I called T Mobile, spent maybe 2 minutes on hold, then spoke to someone about changing my number because I would be moving. they gave me the new number and said it would be changed within the next 24 hours. it actually happened in less than 30 minutes, and I didn’t have to extend my contract and pay any fees of any kind.
Comment by Alex — June 26, 2006 @ 6:35 pm
The thing is, that WAS customer service. The store guy just filled out a form for me, and waited on hold–on the same number we call when we need customer support. The guy in the store was real nice, but had no power whatsoever. I should’ve called up on my own, but I don’t think it would’ve changed anything… well there would have been a lot more cursing.
Comment by psychoanbu@livejournal — June 27, 2006 @ 10:59 am
Dude, cell phone companies in general blow. With society becoming more and more reliant on the damned things, why would they want to provide better customer service. My mom’s got one of those pay-as-you-go phones (was an xmas gift from us), she pays $120 a year for it (12 $10 cards). Granted, my folks are techno-phobes so she truly uses it for emergency purposes only, or to give me a call if she’s around my neck of the woods.