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Super Shitty Weekend

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

I left work on Friday with the goal of doing some minor clothes shopping over the weekend and then basically vegging out. While I did get myself down to DOTS, things still didn’t go as planned.

Saturday was some-what of a down day, minus the fact that my tooth was bothering me. My sister treated Sean and I to dinner and her and I were both vegging out in the living room playing with the dog. The next thing we hear is this extremely loud bang and our doorbell rings three times, very quickly. By this time Bella had made her way down to the door because she tends to bark with door bells, not uncommon with bratty animals. I go out to see what’s up and I’m then thrown into the dumbest argument in the world with the guy who lives in the next apartment.

He came out in a fury stating that I had gone out of my way to let Bella into his apartment to rip his papers up and have her take a shit on his carpet. Yes, this was his complaint. I had the “audacity” to find a key for his door, let my dog in to take a crap, and then bring her back into my apartment with out anyone seeing me.

Let’s back up a little bit though, shall we? I’ve lived in this building for 20 some-odd years. My grandmother owns the building and when she’s not around we’re basically the ‘active landlords’. Meaning, if somethings busted – it gets fixed. For as long as I’ve lived here I’ve never ONCE gone into any of the other apartments if there were tenants renting. I was in Jen’s apartment a lot when she was living up here but we were friends and the kids loved the dog. However, she moved out in 2006. I have not stepped foot into that apartment since.  I lived in DE for a year and a half with Sean and ever since I’ve been back up here, and working, the only thing I wish to do at the end of the day is go into my bedroom and crash.

Now, at night I have my friend Lucy over.  Sometimes it will be Alicia and Dave as well.  Hell, we’ll even throw Colin into the mix sometimes.  We hang out on the porch sitting at MY table (nope, not a community table for the other tenants, it’s mine – I’ve been using it for years.  ANYONE who’s been here, knows that.  It’s my designated smoking section.  The table just happens to be about 10 feet from his (neighbors) window.  We make every effort in the world to not get too rowdy and he’s also never said a damn thing to me about the noise.

So let’s fast forward to Saturday (again).  He’s going on and on about how I’m disrespectful and I have 15 minutes to find the landlord (grandparent’s) or I’ll be sorry (Yes, this is called a threat!).  So I called her house, no answer, I was then told by my sister (who works for my grandparents) that they’re out at a party.  So he’s continuing to scream that I need to call her.  Explaining the lack of alternate contact means nothing to this prick.  Thankfully, however, my sister had my grandfather’s cell phone number.  So I call and the conversation basically went like this:

Me: Momma? The douche in the middle apartment claims that I put Bella into his apartment to take a shit and rip up his crap.

Momma: What?

Me: Yea, he’s screaming that I need to call you or I’ll be sorry.

Momma: What does he want me to do?  I’m no where near town, call your father.

Me: OK, but I’m sure he’ll have a major complaint on Tuesday.

(Yes, every time he goes downstairs to pay the rent or just to cause trouble – he’ll give someone a face full about the horrible living conditions and storm off.  Asshole, you’re paying $700 a month for a small studio apartment, utilities and cable included – get a fucking life).

So I call my father, he can’t leave work because he’s the only one there.  And at this point there’s steam coming out of this guys ears.  He’s waving this tiny piece of toilet paper around claiming it was my dog who shit there.  Now, I knew just looking at it that it wasn’t hers.  Why?  She’s been sick all week and shitting green liquid, this was a perfectly formed brown turd that resembled the large turd sitting on the grass down on the sidewalk (which at this point, was no longer there – guess who stepped in shit?)

My mother was then called in, she sent someone down for EMS to hold down the fort until a cop could get up here.  The douche-bag was screaming about how he’d call the cops so I went out of my way to have them called for him.  I know, and anyone who knows me, knows I wouldn’t allow my dog into someone else’s apartment – especially if it was just to take a shit.  What douche-bag doesn’t understand is that I wouldn’t do anything to screw up someone else’s income and I know that while he’s paying shit money it’s still keeping the mortgage paid on this building.

So the EMT shows up and has no idea as to what’s going on, we explain that he’s here for SHIT, literally.  He then laughs, which is no surprise because I found it amusing as well.  The cops are taking a while to get here, which is no surprise considering the police department in this town absolutely SUCKS because they’re too busy bull shitting with each other.  Saturday, there was supposedly some large fight down in the Landing (horrible area) where all hands were on deck.  One managed to sneak away, he came up the stairs with a shit-eating-grin on his face and my sister (known for diarrhea of the mouth) started in on him.  She explained the situation, he chuckled and then went into the guys apartment.

We knew we were fucked the second he opened the door.  They’re best fucking friends.  So he walks in, see’s the crap and then turns around to come out to us and point the finger.  Why? Because of course you’ll take HIS side over mine.  So I threw a hissy fit (with valid reason, of course). The douche bag comes out of his apartment and starts shooting his mouth off in a different tone than before the cop had shown up.

Supposedly I let the dog run loose whenever I please (even though she’s never outside with me anymore).  I’m outside of his window smoking up with friends until 3am and he’s going to have this place raided for drugs.  Yea – that’ll fly.  I’ll gladly piss in a cup or have a needle rip some blood out of my arm to prove his theories are shit.  Why? Because I’ve never touched anything illegal in my life.  AND I’m picked on for it too.  Heaven forbid I think anyone who smokes up or sniffs is a loser (recreational or not).  I do smoke about a pack of cigarettes a day but I’m also 23 years old and it’s completely legal to do.

The cop didn’t believe anyone of us when we told him that douche bag threatened us, he also believed that I’m that disrespectful and would actually allow my dog to shit in someone else’s apartment.  So the cop wrote down our information, laughed and then left.

Supposedly he later went down to EMS and spoke to my step-father (who sent over the EMT) and explained that this guy was a nut job and not to take him too seriously.

So I was close to killing someone, I walked into the house and almost put my fist through a wall because I needed to get the rage out of me, and taking it out on the douche bag just wasn’t worth the jail time (because yes – I was angry enough to do it in front of a cop).  I called Lucy and told her to basically get her ass over here ’cause I needed OUT and angry driving wasn’t an option.  We hung out in Bayville for a little bit, she brought me back here ’cause something came up with her girlfriend.  I then called Alicia and her and Dave picked me up and I was out long enough where I could mellow out.  Staying here was absolutely not an option for me on Saturday.

This entire time, my tooth is freaking killing me.  I just came off antibiotics for another tooth and then I knew damn well that the other side of my mouth was going to blow up like bloody hell.

SUNDAY

I wake up in a lot of pain, I can see the swelling going up on my left cheek and I haven’t been in this kind of pain since the last time I dealt with an abscess in my mouth.  This one, unfortunately, I knew was going to be much – much worse.  Why? It’s one of my top teeth and when you have an abscess that close to your optic nerve you know the turn out isn’t going to be good.  So I chugged some aspirin and then took some antibiotics that I had left over from a previous infection (horrible teeth – estimated $16,000 worth of work to get me back to where I need to be.  Front teeth are fine, it’s ALL the back ones that are shot to shit!).

I did some shopping with Sean to get some clothes for work – I still don’t have all of my stuff up here yet. Came back here and basically went to sleep.

MONDAY

I woke up with the intent of getting to work and just relaxing while I’m training.  It didn’t work out that way though.  I woke up and couldn’t see out of my left eye.  It’s not that it was swollen shut – it’s that it was completely black.  When I pressed down on the intense swelling around my upper lip/nose area – my vision went from black to blurry – OK so the infection went up further than I thought it would.  I schedule an emergency appointment with the dentist so I can be put back on antibiotics and then I call in to work and explain that I’ll be absent for the day.

I go to the dentist, and instead of giving me antibiotics up front he wants x-rays done.  So I’m being poked and shifted and I’m changing rooms because his machines are messed up (for some reason).  They finally get the two x-rays they need (out of the 3-4 taken) and he then goes on to tell me how much trouble I’m in and tells me that if the nerve was completely dead he’d give me a root canal right then and there but being how I’m so infected the pain would be unbearable.  So he gave me Amoxicillian, asked if I wanted a pain killer but I refused because I have aspirin, and then sent me on my way after he told me I’m going back on September 9th at 8am for a double root canal – yea, like I can go to work after that.  I’ve got no choice though.

I slept for the rest of the day, in an extreme amount of pain and knew that Tuesday wasn’t going to be any better.

TUESDAY

I wake up and the swelling is worse than it’s ever been before, my eye is swollen shut and I called in.  I slept for the bulk of the day and then told myself that as long as I can see on Wednesday I’m going to have to go in.  I’m on probation and thankfully a doctors note is the only way I can keep my job right now.  I’m still in training, I was supposed to do a lot more this week too, so I have no idea what’s going to happen today.

WEDNESDAY

It’s pushing 9:30 and I need to get out of here.  I hope my time out of the house is much better than the crap I’ve been dealing with in-house.

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Don’t answer the phone!

Friday, March 28th, 2008

For the past few hours a few different phone numbers have been calling the house. Originally I thought it was merely a prank but supposedly I’m not the only one receiving these phone calls. If you see any of the following numbers show up on your caller ID, please be sure to avoid answering the phone.

  • Quebec (514) 555-5555
  • Florida (727) 585-4752
  • Florida (727) 683-0725
  • California (408) 731-7348

These numbers have been widely known for calling up to 15 times per day, and based on a few of the threads I’ve found in regards to it, a lot of people are effected by it. I’m going to log into Comcast in a few moments and block these numbers from calling. If you’re looking for more information, please head over to 888notes.com and read a bit more about it. They never say why they’re calling, you’re lucky if someone even responds to your saying “Hello?”. Just make it a point to block these numbers before they even start calling you.

On my ID the first number didn’t show up as Quebec, it showed up as “Purdy, D”. I have yet to get any calls from the other numbers, but that really doesn’t matter too much right now. I have to say that I can blame Vonage for this because they tend to allow you to have a phone number anywhere you please as long as you pay them, all VoIP phones tend to let you choose what area code you prefer. For all I know these calls could actually be coming from a man up the block.

Either way it’s a good idea to block the numbers, if you have the ability. Get in touch with your telephone provider before it gets to the point of being utterly annoying.

And with that said, guess who’s phone is freaking ringing again?! UGH!

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Going Crazy…

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

In about five hours my alarm is set to go off at the loudest it’s ever been. By 10am I need to be in the shower and ready to start the day because between the hours of noon and four PM I’ll be waiting on Stanley Steamer to get here and take care of the carpets. Now, when one pays a company to come in and do….say…6 rooms, you also pay a bit extra so that they can move things around. So please tell me why for the last two days Sean and I have been moving everything out of the living room, dining room, bedroom and office? Because while they claim they’ll move things for you, it only falls under certain categories and if they DO move it for you, it needs to be completely cleaned off. They don’t move plants, they don’t move bulky furniture (king bed), they won’t move wooden bookcases unless they’re cleared off and they won’t touch electronics. Guess who’s house is filled with everything they WON’T move, but were paid extra for? :: waits patiently for your guess ::

I attempted to get into bed around 3:30 because thanks to a faulty alarm clock (Sean) I didn’t wake up as early as I wanted to so I knew I was going to have to fight to get myself to sleep tonight. Who would have thought that an hour and half later listening to Sean wheezing, Bella snoring, and the different paperboys doing 80 miles an hour in a 13 mile-an-hour complex could keep me wide awake?

I’m in the kitchen because there’s so much stuff piled up on my desk (to get it off the floor for the cleaners) that I can’t even use my iMac. I’m not sure of where my laptop is at this point considering the house is in complete disarray. My DS is no where to be found but something tells me Sean had something to do with that, considering his “throw it anywhere” strategy when we started this project. He doesn’t understand that if you’re organized going into this, it’s so much easier to put everything back and get back to your regular life without having to go through bags and stacked up things where you’re unsure of their original origin, but men tend to do that.

The coffee pot is just about done brewing, Karen sets it for about 5am considering she’s up around 5:30 (most days). Today she has a doctors appointment at 9am so I’m sure her alarm is going to be beeping soon as well. I don’t know what to do to get myself to sleep. Usually staring at a screen for a little while does it for me, reading a book works if the screen remedy fails. Unfortunately, neither one is working for me right now. I guess because I feel as though there’s so much to accomplish today. I would love to just start cleaning right now but the only thing that’s really left to do before they show up is vacuum and that’s kind of rude to do at 5am. Both Karen and Sean can sleep right through it, but I doubt that’ll have the same effect on the neighbors considering how loud the Dyson is. With the window cracked I can hear it up the street.

I need to find something to do that will bore me enough to get me in bed. Maybe I’ll surf around MySpace for a while, nothing but uninteresting people there.

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Absolute Catastraphy

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

For quite some time now I’ve been dying my own hair. Coming from a family of beauticians you pick up on things. For years I’ve used the peroxide/color combination that is salon grade. Recently, due to lack of resources in the immediate area, I’ve been using the boxed stuff from the store. I tried Garnier for the first time and I have to say that I’m extremely disappointed.

Since my hair is as long and as thick as it is, I have to use two bottles. Both are mixed the exact same way, so I really don’t understand why only half of my hair has any visible sign of color. The left side has the red color I was looking for and the right side has a tint but none of the gray is covered, even though I put “Gray Magic” on both mixes. So basically I’m going to have to make it a point to get my hair fully taken care of when I get up to New York this holiday season. I’m going to be using a clarifying shampoo every other day until I get up there. It’ll strip my hair of most of the color to at least tone things down.

I’m also in desperate need of a hair cut, I’ve decided to hold off for a few weeks and just get everything done up in New York. My mother can more than likely do it for me. I’d like some style but even just chopping two inches off would instantly make my hair healthier looking. It’s very dull thanks to all of the dead ends that I’ve been dealing with. I was looking into places down here but the only one in my immediate price range is The Hair Cuttery. The reviews about this place are really 50/50. Many people love it, a lot of people hate it. I did float around ripoffreport.com as well and there are a few people pulling out the race card but that really doesn’t surprise me considering how often that card is pulled from the deck these days.

Anyway, I’m not even going to bother blowing out my hair because I’m afraid to see what it looks like when it’s dry if it’s already botched up while it’s wet. I just threw it up in a pony tail and strapped a headband on to cover up the most effected area and that’s that.

Karen should be home in a few minutes, hopefully she’ll grab a quick bite and then we’ll be on our way up to Walmart. We’re going to the one a few towns over and I figure while she’s doing her shopping I’ll pick up some food for the week for Sean and I. I’m trying not to spend too much money going out to dinner this week considering we’ll be in Atlantic City this weekend. I know that a few buffets are comped for us so that covers dinner for Saturday and Sunday night. On Monday I have a comp for the diner at Ceaser’s and I’ve been itching to get in there so hopefully that works out well for us. I really wish that we could have gotten a room at Ceaser’s, their casino is gorgeous – I can only imagine what their rooms look like. I’m sure we’ll be content either way.

And Jenny, why don’t you and Geoff head down to A.C. for the day with the baby?

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Oh crap, she’s coming back.

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

It’s a pretty windy day, gusts are hitting about 50 MPH which is enough to send all kinds of chaos to anything in it’s path. The chairs on the porch have been blowing around all night, Sean had to chase the garbage cans down after the dump truck showed up this morning, and even now we had to resort to using a belt to tie them up to the side of the house so we could avoid losing them again. Poor Bella was almost airborne thanks to a pretty hefty gust when she was out for her morning pee, so that was amusing. With the wind it’s about 40¬?F (4¬?C), it’s only going to get colder considering the sun is slowly beginning to set. It should be a pretty interesting night, that’s for sure.

I have quite a bit of cleaning and vacuum packing to do. There’s a lot of things scattered around the house that just need to be put away. There’s the issue of Christmas items needing to be unpacked plus laundry and other things that have accumulated in numerous areas. The kitchen (yet again) looks as though a bomb went off in it and the wicked witch is going to be making an appearance this weekend so lord knows how well that’s going to turn out. Sean is already annoyed at the thought of her being here, I can only imagine how that’s going to escalate when she steps foot in the door.

I can tell already that it’s going to be a hectic week…that’s for sure.

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Back, but not quite home.

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

We left NY at about 9:30 last night and by 2:30am we were back here.¬† I did wind up falling asleep in the car for the last hour of the trip but that’s out of character for me, so it caught me off guard.¬† I don’t typically fall asleep in cars but I guess with Bella all cozy on my lap so she could look out the window, plus the both of us being wrapped up in my jacket just to get warm – it was bound to happen at some point.

The trip up was OK, we walked into an uncomfortable situation between my father and sister that I’d rather not get into.¬† Sunday was a “down” day, I headed over to my aunts to spend some time with her and on Monday my father and I headed to the bank so I could collect the loan.¬† Seeing a check with that many zero’s was definitely a nice birthday gift.¬† With the interest rate I’m going to pay back about $4,000 on top of the loan itself but since the course of the loan is 60 months, that really won’t matter too much.

So once that was taken care of we headed back to the house and relaxed until about 7 when my aunt called us and we all headed out to dinner at Bertucci’s for my birthday, Sean treated everyone to dinner which looked like a big selling point to my father, so I have to say that worked out nicely.¬† I didn’t “clean up” the way I have in the past but more than enough money to get us back home and me to purchase a few things from the salon my grandmother owns.¬† I also picked up a new purse, Gucci has that kind of a hold on me.¬† And the Dolce & Gabbana sun glasses to replace my now defunct Chanels make me more than content.

We came back here to find house guests, and since it’s raining we’ve still got our suitcases in the car.¬† Sean should be getting in touch with his brother soon about this upcoming weekend.¬† Hopefully once things calm down a bit they’ll be easier to deal with when we’re settled into our new place.¬† I really don’t care much about anything anymore, so being in this funk my only real concern is moving out and just starting a new life.¬† Work means crap to me, people have always meant shit to me, and getting out of a very uncomfortable living situation is a big goal for me right now.

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Ughness

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy for the last few days.¬† Going through email and what not.¬† There’s a rise of stupid people coming my way that have had me a bit annoyed lately.¬† No one knows how to read, it’s like a running trend.¬† I know that when they received the email from me, it was written clearly with detailed instructions on what they had to do.

When you sign an agreement through Paypal, they’re the ones who handle all of the billing from there on out.¬† If it’s a subscription payment, the payment goes through I add it to my spreadsheets and you’re good for another month (or another year depending on your original agreement).¬† I don’t call your bank account and have money wired, I don’t automatically bill you at times that you’re unaware of.¬† You sign the agreement on the 12th, if it’s monthly you’ll be billed the following 12th and many there after until you no longer need your account.

It’s written on the confirmation email that you’ll be billed monthly, so you should expect to freaking see that from the get go – why is it my damn problem if you forget? For crying out loud.

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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

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Son of a !@#$

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

I’m beyond fed-up with the downtime, I just can’t find another company quick enough it seems, and it’s driving me crazy. It’s added stress to an already stressed out person. My eye is still twitching and anytime I try to get in and work on something site based it just twitches even more. Someone running on dial up could access a site faster, and I’m not even talking just the main page. WordPress, it takes two seconds to get to that screen (typically) I waited for a good 120 before everything timed out.

It’s not even my servers, I’m talking about the outside reseller account that I have setup for my personal domains.¬† The whole data center is just freaking slow!

:GRR:

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So long, bitch be gone!

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

As of 10:08am, the wretched bitch is officially gone. It’s been three days of dealing with her attitude, her bull shit looks and the smoking INSIDE of the house (something she was requested not to do). She pushed my dog off the couch and almost head-first into a broken glass coffee table, missed the jagged edge by about 2 inches. She leaves her shit laying around the house just about everywhere and even if she’s not included in the conversation, or if I haven’t even acknowledged that she was even in the freaking room, she’ll jump in anyway.

Monday night they came back from O.C., both were obviously intoxicated. I said something to K and then the bitch jumped right in with her two cents about how K doesn’t have to answer to me. All I did was say “You’re drunk, aren’t you?” she shoots back with her bull shit remark – something she wasn’t asked of because again there’s that wall separating us now – she’s been locked out of Krissyville and trust me when I say if she wasn’t across the room she would have been on her ass with a broken face. I don’t like when someone can get me to the point of being violent, even though I have spent quite a bit of time having to ‘reform’ thanks to quite a few knockouts in my day.

This fucking cunt bag just got under my skin this weekend. I was nothing but polite to her, she insisted on having an attitude in return, something that’s common for her because she’s the kind of person that will get pissed off because she’s unable to be pissed off. Yes, go think about that one for a second. They’re downtown, I guess someone bumped into her or something and he graciously apologized – it’s what they do in Delaware! She then got pissed off over the fact that because of his apology she couldn’t be pissed off at him. Little stupid things like someone accidentally bumping into your arm can fuck her entire day up. Meanwhile, K swears that Sean (and probably me) are depressed because what you would consider midnight, we consider it noon. Yes, we’ll sleep from say 11am to 6pm, that’s not depression – that’s putting in over 16 hours of WORK overnight.

This cunt sleeps on the couch all damn day. I went to sleep at 11, after a very long couple of days of working on things. I woke up at 6 and she was in the exact same spot on the couch. If it weren’t for the fact that she’d gone out and got herself a shit load of junk food (also laying all over the damn house) she probably wouldn’t have left that spot at all. Who goes on ‘vacation’ and freaking sleeps on someone ELSE’s couch for 3 days? She had a bed at her disposal, one she slept in. But she decided to just camp out in the living room instead. So now when my dog is trying to get to her usual window seat, she gets shoved into a coffee table because it’s an inconvenience to her? I’d love to see what kind of conditions her fucking cats are living in.

Based on what I’ve heard she never opens a window and has thick drapes covering everything. Oh yea, she’s not depressed at freaking all! She finds the “down” with everything. You could walk in saying “I won a million dollars” and she’d fucking give you 10 reasons why things are wrong with the world and add it to how “that never happens to me”. Dipshit! Read the fucking secret will you? You’re constantly shitting on everyone else, maybe it’s called fucking karma and you aren’t deserving of anything but a kick in the face or a chuck in that nifty 800¬? oven – ever think of that?

I’m too heated at the moment to even continue. I’m close to just throwing the monitor across the room so I can hit something. ugh.

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Oh Crap…The bitch is back!

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Yes, you read it correctly. The mutually disliked house-guest has returned. I’m unsure as to what time she actually showed up, I was knocked out until like 1, but that happens when you crash at 830. The house thankfully doesn’t smell like smoke but my ashtray outside was filling up. So that means she was either here for 2 hours or 10 minutes at the rate that she inhales a cig.

I’ll be keeping myself busy today in the office. I have some things to take care of with advertisers and a few templates to knock out. I might even get around to returning some comments – I’m fully aware of the fact that I was slacking for about two months on that one. My background noise at the moment is on channel 10, something about Comicon. Sean was watching everything when it was on, it’s just strange that I walked past it when I was on my way into the house. At the moment they’re talking to Stan Lee, they just asked him who his favorite superhero is; he claims he doesn’t have one, he loves them all.

They were talking about the first season of “Who wants to be a SuperHero”, this is a show I didn’t even bother watching but based on what I just saw at comicon, the winner was a character named FeedBack, I have to wonder what his superpower is exactly. I highly doubt being able to hold a conversation has anything to do with it, considering listening to him speak for 10 seconds just seemed like he was rambling on in excess.

He’s on the Wiki, there was too much BS that needed to be blockquoted and since I’m not a fan of comic books, I’ll just link you directly to his article.

In any event, time to get to work.

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There’s NOTHING on!

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

There’s literally nothing on TV at the moment, not like that’s much of a change from any other night. I do have a lot of work to do but I’m having trouble concentrating because of the fact that I have no background noise at the moment.

I’m waiting on Sean to get back here. He left about a half hour ago to pick up dinner but I want to assume that the traffic downtown is horrible considering the 90+ temperatures we were dealing with today. The beaches must have been packed solid. He’s going to walk in bitching about all of the Benny’s and then eventually calm down, it’s a typical thing. I don’t like sending him out in traffic like this but it’s also summer in a tourist town, that’s bound to happen.

I guess I should get myself back to work. I don’t know how I’m going to manage accomplishing three templates by midnight considering it’s only 4 hours away but maybe I’ll get lucky enough and have a jolt of energy. Who knows.

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What a freaking day.

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Last week all of the servers were upgraded to cPanel11 – There have been NOTHING but issues popping up ever since. My Inbox is full if people who lost email, can’t log in with user/pass issues, lost files and other crap that they probably don’t ever need anyway considering it’s not even site based files, it’s stat based ones. However – they’re still PAYING clients so it’s good to know where exactly everything is. He fucked something up on one of the servers so everyone was running off backups and now the main server that houses all of my personal/business websites is having email issues. I don’t even know if anyone is getting emails from @agn-solutions.net based addresses, this is only for the past week – nothing before then everything was 100%.

So instead of getting any real work done today I have to move address books around and get in touch with people. Thanks to him doing something I requested he WAITED on, I’m now at risk for losing many paying clients. Three for sure have emailed me (which I received) I just don’t know if they actually got anything in return.

On top of that I’m dealing with these bull shit “You Suck” emails from people who still don’t know how to read. How can someone have ‘shitty service‘ if it’s the non-paying–resource-eating user who doesn’t know how to get in touch with someone? Get over yourselves, morons.

Since she can’t read email and I know her trusty side kick has nothing better to do. I’ll leave a personal message here. Her files will be backed up in an oh-so-nifty ZIP and then she’ll be completely removed from the server, this includes all of the domains that she does nothing with. And considering she isn’t a paying client, I don’t even have to save THOSE files, so consider this me being nice.

What this person claims is that she lost her password, I’m sure she’s failed to mention the fact that it’s been changed for her over six times during the course of hosting her. I’m sure if she thought long and hard she could figure it out since apparently she doesn’t know how to read emails (that according to me – were actually read thanks to a trusty thing named a ticket)¬† The password was listed in two of them.

: head desk :

More crap to do, another freaking 10 hours left in the day.

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Slow your roll

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

I’m having some trouble with WordPress today and I’m not quite sure why. I keep getting a 500 error every time I go to login and get some things done. It only shows up at random, I’ve got Tony working on it at the moment. Didn’t mean to interrupt his lunch but hey – I’m paying him so hmph! Yes, childish I know.

I’ve noticed a rise in people having a complaint about the new way of doing things with a paid blogging company I work with. Instead of 3 posts per day, per blog in the database, there’s now only 2 posts per day and those new to the system feel as though they’re being raped out of money. Thing is, the intent for this company was never for these people to fully switch their sites over to a money making machine and any true paid-blogger knows that putting all of your eggs in one basket is just plain dumb. Many bloggers earning the $2000 a month and up income aren’t only working with one paid to blog company, they’re working with about 10 of them – trust me, I’m one of them.

However, this doesn’t mean that the only reason I have a blog is for the sake of making money off of it. I work from home, yes, but more than 70% of my income is WORK based, I do run my own company you know? I’m not sitting at a website at 9am to midnight hoping to get an opportunity as it’s posted and then participate in the op orgy to post articles completely irrelevant to my website. Everyone wants to go for that $20 and up post, even if it has nothing to do with their daily lives. I’m sorry but a 18 year old blogger knows nothing about refinancing student loans for college graduates so why are they going to take it? They want a fat wallet.

Yes, everyone wants a fat wallet. This is why people work their asses off on a regular basis. The difference is, when you’re sitting on your ass just crossing your finger for one of these ops to show up, you’re really not doing much of anything. Many blogs around the internet are losing their readership because of sponsored blogging. I’ll be the first to admit that I use my site for monetary gain but I’m also still keeping up on my daily life here as well. Posting sponsored entry after sponsored entry is something being done all over the internet and many people have noticed that they’re no longer getting the hits that they once used to.

Some have smartened up, they’re no longer paid posting on 10 different blogs and found an actual income from outside sources. You’ll still see entries popping up here and there but for the most part they’ve gotten themselves on an actual payroll that isn’t based post-to-post.

I completely support anyone who writes sponsored posts. I just won’t be floating around those blogs as frequently because the bulk of them all have the same entry just written a different way and I’m sorry but if your site has absolutely NOTHING to do with the entries you’re posting, it’s really nothing more than a waste of time. A fat wallet is great but no readership won’t keep that wallet very fat for long. You can easily be taken from a PR6 to a PR4 with the loss of back links due to paid blogging, no more high paying ops for you, no more fat wallet, and no more actual visitors. Something to keep in mind the next time you log into your paid blogging system. Pace yourself with other companies outside of a fast-paced-blog-orgy and really think about what you’re writing about, if it doesn’t connect to your website, even if it’s a quick $30 – it’s really not worth the write up.

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:: bangs head on desk ::

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

I’m done with the August theme. I’m thinking about launching early considering I can’t stand this blue thing. But I have all of that stuff on auto-move so I’ll just wait and go from there so I don’t mess anything up. Jenny saw it last night, thought it was cute – that’s good enough for me. I made her an icon to match my template and now she’s all smiles.

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Things are finally starting to move!

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

I’m not sure if anyone else heard about this yesterday but some drunken loony out in Cali decided to destroy a couple servers at a major data center that houses big-name sites/companies like Technorati, Six Apart, Netflix and CraigsList. This was before the huge power outage that they suffered as well so the last I heard there were a mob of people standing outside the building being very pissed off about the ‘breach of contract’ going on with the down time, guess they didn’t notice there wasn’t any power either – hm? I found the actual story itself on slashdot, a direct link to the article can be found here. I’m sure you’ll find some aspects of it both amusing and quite annoying – I know I did.

There were notifications up on a few of the sites that were experiencing downtime. I believe that Alexa (while it may not have been in this particular building) is also based out of SF and I know for a fact that they experienced some down time as well. This is why my site has been lagging for the last few days. And to think, I thought it was blogrolling being mean to me again (hrm…maybe they’re hosted on a server there too?).

My August theme is about 80% completed, I absolutely hate this blue monstrosity that I’ve got sitting up here and I made it a point to sit down and work on it this evening. It’s about 9am and I’m still awake. The template didn’t keep me up though, my eyes are crossing too much to even continue to move forward with it, it’s the fact that dinner was started at 5am (sauce needs to brew all day) and now I just have to give some things a quick stir before my head can hit the pillow.

I have a lot of work to do today, quite a few emails to get back to, and I need to make a phonecall to a dealership up in Jersey because we misplaced the ID number for our Sirius Satellite radio and now since I’m going to reactivate it for both car AND home use – obviously I’m going to need that number.

Long day, not enough hours – I’ll tell ya!

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