moving (night)

I have been helping my grandmother move her stuff over to her apartment. The past day has been a growing experience. With all the sleet and ice, it was difficult to drive. I lost control of the car for a few seconds but luckily gained control quick enough that I just bounced off the curb once. In addition, I had my first experience driving a circle. If you're not from New Jersey, that's a road in the form of a circle where an intersection would be. There are exits off the circle you take to get to the appropriate roads. They are horrendous. Someone, years ago, must have graduated from Drexel with a civil engineering degree and thought up those monstrosities. j/k My uncle went to pick up a pickup truck (unintended pun) that he bought to help move my grandmother's stuff. So, I was supposed to drive the car that he drove to get the truck back to my grandmother's condo (not the apartment). Since I didn't know the way, I had to follow him. Following someone around a circle is incredibly difficult. After I left the circle, I could not see my uncle's truck anywhere. I drove down a little ways and pulled onto the shoulder to look around but saw no sign of him. It turned out that he was a few miles down the road from me waiting, but considering I had no idea where I was. . . Eventually, I called my mother, who called my grandmother to get the phone number to reach my uncle who came to find me (but not before picking up my driving glasses from my home).

Comcast monopoly

I ran into trouble with Comcast's regional monopoly yet again. My mother forgot her password so we had to have it reset. Problem is, the person we talked to didn't exactly know what she was doing, or was having a problem with the system that handles the accounts. In any case, she changed my mother's username so she can't receive emails to her old address. Changing the username is easy enough, it's changing it back to what it was which is a problem, apparently. After my mother vented her frustrations at a comcast rep enough, she finally got them to give her back her old username but it would take five days to do so. Meanwhile, she can't really send or receive email.

Because of the above problem, I can't post the myspace journals to the web space that Comcast provides until she gets her username back.

Our first big trial with Comcast was when the service was out in the area for about 10 days. They would come out, think they fixed the problem, and go back. Then, they'd find out an hour later the problem wasn't fixed. Very annoying.

I'm thinking that we'll have to wait an awfully long time before this regional oligopoly will be split up.

redundancy

Journal/BLOG moved to crazyrubes42.blogspot.com ...

Can you say redundancy and exclusivity? This is all getting incredibly annoying. crazyrubes42.blogspot.com may even change yet again, if I find something better than blogspot.

(this post is a joke)

the re-creation of the world

If you wish to be able to either post to this blog, receive updates, or find out when this little space of nearly useless info is updated, just ask me.

Sorry about going back and forth like this, but I forgot to change the email address on the original account. That becomes a problem if you also forget the password. Then, a friend convinced me to make a blog anyone could view instead of just that journal at myspace.com. (you know who you are)

Meanwhile, I can simply provide a link to the original blog here. As for the journal at myspace.com, I'm not sure... I might just post a repeat of everything. Maybe the aforementioned friend can convince me to do something again. Everything is his fault after all. ;)

Still, I can't get over how I've seen smaller forums with better posting options than this and myspace.com. Joe Blogger isn't going to know font color = 00000 from font size = 3. Why do these people think that Joe Blogger should? In addition, instead of having a choice between editing the stylesheet itself and choosing one of 8 premade stylesheets isn't much of a choice. Why can I not just choose a color theme in addition to how the blog is laid out? Why doesn't blogspot just hire me or something. Geez! wake up and learn some user-friendly programming skills. And you can't even email a real person from Blogger to tell them about what this thing lacks.

(no blogger I will not start my own blogging service)