They really need to stop calling themselves “The original reniassance pleasure faire”; it’s like if I bought John Lennon’s clothes and called myself an original Beattle.
http://www.renfair.com/socal/
Jan 312012
Customer Service
Doh!
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Jan 282012
I am a customer. I am not a supplicant. You are not granting me a favor by doing your job. I will not be disregarded, disrespected or ignored. I will take my business elsewhere after ensuring that all levels of management at your organization know why I made this choice. If you find it difficult to address reasonable requests in a timely, courteous and adult manner perhaps you need a career change. Thank you and have a pleasant day.
Irony calling
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Jan 232012
I have been struggling with Western Governors University’s financial aid department for the last 4 months to get my financial aid packaged and in place. Their bureaucratic incompetence is mind boggling. They lose paperwork and once it is resubmitted stick to their policy of 2-3 weeks to process it. They have told me at least 4 times that I am ineligible for financial aid due to unsatisfactory academic progress even though I just started a program and am still in my first term. They ignore emails and when you call them all they do is spout the same theme over and over again, “it’s another department’s fault.” My financial aid request has been on a priority rush for several weeks now, but I’m not sure that they understand the definition of the word “rush”.
Where is the irony? I received an email from Federal Student Aid reminding me to apply for next years financial aid. It’s quite possible that WGU will have my aid package finished by then, but I ain’t holding my breath.
Fun with my instruments (musical)
Doh!, musical instruments
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Jan 182012
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Jan 172012
he Bible was not written by God, but by men. Men are fallible and they will lie to advance their own agenda. If God had written the Bible there would be no room for interpretation. A supreme being would be capable of expressing themselves clearly and succinctly. All that the Bible can possibly be used for is as a textbook on Ancient Israel’s History.
REAL MAN sayings
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Jan 102012
OK,, just so everyone knows I copyright the sayings that start, “A real man …” Some of my most recent are:
Real men do more than just call, we RAISE!
Real men don’t need antidepressants, they have whiskey.
Use them in good health, but they belong to me!!!
backgammon
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May 212011
I like to play backgammon and wanted to play online. I found a site that allowed deposits to play small stakes backgammon. I didn’t want to win or lose large sums of money, but wagering makes the game spicer. I joined play65.com and the gaming was fun until I tried to withdraw money from my account. It was a major pain just to let them know that I wanted to withdraw the money as that part of the site seemed to be having issues. After alot of annoyance I was able to finally complete the withdrawal request. It should have been processed in 304 days into my paypal account except after 8 business days the money still had not arrived. I contacted them again and was told that my request had been forwarded to the accounting department.After some research on the web, I discovered that there were accusations of cheating (dice favoring certain players) and difficulty with withdrawals. I’m glad that I never gave them more money than my initial deposit and from now on will do any wagering in person. Pay me when I win!
My recommendation is to not do business with the people at play65.com.
5/25/2011
Still no answer from the play65 accounting department. I’m starting to think that they don’t intend to pay me. (sarcasm level 5)
Withdrawing from UC Riverside
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May 162011
I relocated last Summer to Redlands California in part to attend UC Riverside and work on a PhD in Computer Science. I was offered a fellowship, tuition + $30K a year. My experiences at UCR were less than satisfactory, with the exception of Amy Ricks in the CS department office, they generally sucked.
The majority of Grad students in my department were foreign nationals, primarily Chinese. It was annoying and depressing to attend a course and to here nothing but Chinese spoken with the sole exception of the lectures. There was no mentoring or advising offered to me during my stay at UCR. My official adviser was too busy and kept fobbing me off on Amy. I constantly made to feel like I was too old to be there and the wrong nationality to guarantee success.
The Graduate Division at UCR tried to get rid of me from almost the day I arrived. They were only interested in their statistics and had no interest in student success. I believe that Grad Division was more interested in catering to foreign students who paid the fat fees than American students. I believe that this attitude was fostered even more in the CS department due to the vast majority of tenured professors being foreign nationals. This begs the question of why an American Institution of Higher Learning’s academic department has so few American instructors? And so few American graduate students? I feel that I was the victim of discrimination based on my nationality in my own country and at a educational institution financed by my state and country.
Home Farming
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Apr 262011
We started a home farming project in our front yard using above ground planter boxes.
Celebrity Charity Pushers
WTF!
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Apr 262011
I'd be curious to know how much celebrities actually donate to the charities they front for. Just sitting in front of a camera asking the rest of us to donate don't count for skittles. Saying that they are donating their valuable time is a falsehood. Their time is only valuable if someone is willing to pay for it and since the charity isn't paying for it their time has no actual cash value.
