Fence Post Dilemma Update
Quick Update on Fence Post Dilemma post
Now I’m really pissed off that the cocksucker post man I initially hired to put up my fence posts didn’t show up that day. We have rescheduled three times now with the new guy and all three times it ended up raining during our scheduled times of the day.
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What Happens In Vegas Spoiler Review
What Happens In Vegas revolves around two people who are, in many ways, completely incompatible with one another. However, following a night of booze, booze, and more booze in viva Las Vegas, they end up getting married. The next morning, after they both have realized the big mistake that they made, one of them wins a major jackpot worth three million dollars.
While going to divorce court and trying to end the mistaken wedding, the judge sentences them to six months of trying to make the marriage work before he will allow the money to be evenly divided. And, this begins the joys of the movie. However, for a romantic comedy, this movie was neither funny nor romantic.
First of all, Ashton Kutcher plays his typical role as an immature idiot who lives life to the fullest and cares only for fun and pleasure. When I first saw him play this kind of character in “Dude, Where’s My Car” I thought he was actually kinda funny. But now that this seems to be the only character he is able to play well, it has gotten very, very annoying. Can you say ‘one dimensional’. Not only is he annoying, but I have come to the realization that Ashton Kutcher is a really bad actor. Except maybe for his performance in the “Butterfly Effect”. Coincidentally, he actually played a different type of character in that movie as well.
As far as the plot is concerned, this movie was as predictable as it gets. Not one thing in this movie surprised me nor striked me as anything new. It seems that the writer(s) of What Happens In Vegas decided to play it safe and completely followed some kind of typical Hollywood formula in terms of peaks and lows during the story. Needless to say, they fall in love and live happily ever after.
In conclusion, this movie has absolutely no imagination and was a complete waste of time. I think I laughed once and that was when Cameron Diaz’s ex-boyfriend got punched in the balls (during the ending credits). Primitive and immature, I know. But what does that tell you about the rest of the movie when I say that that was my favorite part.
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Fence Post Dilemma
We are planning to build a 6 foot wooden fence in our backyard. We had scheduled for a local guy going by the name of “The Post Man” to drill the holes and put up the fence posts for us. We had scheduled it for three in the afternoon yesterday. However, when that time came around, we found ourselves sitting in our living room, looking out the window for him, and being disappointed.
We patiently waited until four o’clock before we decided to give him a call. No answer. So, I left a message. An hour later, with no post man and no returned call, my girlfriend called the number again. This time his assistant/wife answered the phone. My girlfriend who was, at this point, already frustrated asked why we were waiting around instead of building our fence. The assistant said that we were actually scheduled for tomorrow. Bullshit. My girlfriend and I had both, in separate occasions, confirmed the date with these fucking bastards. When we told her this, she got defensive and started saying that we were wrong. We weren’t wrong. We double confirmed the date and time because we have a lot of other shit to do and so worked around this schedule. Shit that now has to wait and get rescheduled. Stupid bitch. My girlfriend hung up after neither sides showed any sign of backing down.
Ten minutes later, The post man himself phoned and I answered. He started telling me the same bullshit about us getting the date wrong. I started to get really angry when the cocksucker started calling me a liar and getting all sarcastic. I couldn’t believe it. How the fuck does this piece of shit run a business while acting like a fucking five year old kid? I decided to hang up while getting the last word(s) in; “Fuck you, cocksucker.”
After I calmed down a bit. I called a few other fence post contractors and learned that The Post Man was famous in the industry for missing scheduled times or canceling at the last minute. One guy even told me that The Post Man has a tendency to drive by the site and, if he didn’t like it, he would just keep driving. Seriously, how the fuck do you run a business like that?
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Wow to the Wii Fit
On a very unusual purchasing whim, my girlfriend decided to get the new Wii Fit. Now, for those of you who don’t know what this is, it is a game for the nintendo wii which contains many mini games revolving around your balance. It comes with this impressive ‘balance board’ that senses your movements and balance which is then used to score you on the games/exercises. It’s pretty high tech shit.
Anyhoo, I found myself actually sweating while playing this game. What a fucking great idea from nintendo to turn gaming into something that is actually beneficial to the gamer. The yoga exercises are a lot tougher than they look and the strength exercises are ridiculously hard. There are, of course, a lot of fun ones in wii fit like a soccer mini game where you hafta headbutt thesoccer balls being thrown at you; it’s funny cause you lose points when you get hit with shoes and panda heads which they throw at you, too.
Very very fun game and another revolution by nintendo. I really recommend the wii fit; just make sure you’re wearing stretchable material as playing this game in blue jeans is impossible.
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Moving Day(s)
I hate moving. I really, really do. Especially when your girlfriend has enough crap to fill two houses. It’s sad really. We spent three trips, with three vehicles, getting her shit in here. We threw about a car load in the garbage and probably another two carloads will be sold in a yard sale. You know how many trips it took for my stuff? One trip!!
Anyway, I’m just glad this house is starting to look more like a house and less like a storage facility. I’m sure garbage day will be a joy for those poor garbage guys who have to haul all the crap we’ll be leaving out for them.
Shitty thing is, now it’s renovation time; walls, tiles, sink, fence, etc. I’m glad I took a week off for this crap. Or, maybe I shoulda worked and used that money to pay people to do this? Oh, well.
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The Brick Scammers
I went to “The Brick” last weekend with my girlfriend to find a new dining room table; we saw an ad in the paper for some cheap sets so decided to go there despite our feelings towards this place. When we got there, we were hounded by the salespeople right from the get go. We couldn’t walk 10 feet without having some cocksucker with a fake smile asking if he could give us a hand with anything. This kind of aggressive selling is so fucking annoying. Next time I think I’m gonna wear a plain white shirt and write the following in big bold letters…
“Just Browsing. So Fuck Off!”
… what do you guys think? I think these t-shirts would be a hit. And I don’t mean to single out The Brick for having such pushy pricks as employees. Most commission-based places are like this.
However, I have come to the point where I do not believe a fucking word that comes out of the mouth of a brick employee. I haven’t heard so much bullshit coming out of one place. I mean, according to them everything on the floor has only one more piece in stock so you better buy it now. Or have you ever had the “one day sale‘ sales pitch? You won’t see any ads in the paper or signs in the store but apparently the piece that you’ve shown interest on is actually on a one day sale so you should jump on the low price.
The last time I purchased something from the brick was my leather couch 3 years ago. They had it advertised on sale for $400; that was 50% off of the regular ticket price of $800. A few months later, I saw the couch there and it wasn’t on sale. However, the ticket price was nowhere near the regular price when I bought it. I am fucking convinced that this scamming company jacks up the ‘regular price’ just to make the sale prices so unbelievable.
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Diary of the Dead Spoiler Review
Diary of the Dead is another installment of the “Dead” movie series by George Romero (Night of the Living Dead). Let me being this review with a short narrative excerpt from this movie…
Jason - “It used to be us against us. Now, it’s us against them.”
Debra (narration) - “He was right, us against them. Except that they…. were us.”
…what the fuck? Didn’t she just say what he said. But, backwards. It seems that Mr. Romero attempted to get ‘deep’ in this latest of his zombie flicks. But, wow did he ever fucking fail. This movie was absolutely brutal. There were a couple parts in this movie where you can tell that they were trying to get all philosophical and shit; I found myself scratching my head after every one of those parts.
And it wasn’t just the storyline that sucked ass in this movie. The acting was disgusting. I mean, this is not at all different from the other movies, but, this was exceptionally bad. The horrible acting made the sad attempts at humor funny; but not in the way that they may have wanted. It also made the attempts at character development uninteresting and unbelievable.
Do yourselves a favor and do not see this movie. Beating yourselves over the head with a pot for an hour and a half would be more entertaining. It will also give you less of a headache.
Posted by Frank N. Stein
My Apologies
Sorry folks. I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus lately, and I apologize; although I doubt that my lack of posts is really effecting anyone’s day to day life. To be honest, I would say this would be more of an apology to myself. This post just puts it in an official capacity.
This blog has really helped me contain my anger since it’s inception. I strongly believe this, now. This previous month, stress has really been hitting me. And, with it came anger. I found myself getting angry over stupid little things to those who simply do not deserve the verbal abuse that I am, regrettably, able to dish out. Coincidentally, this previous month I have had zero posts. And, yes, I am aware that this could simply be a coincidence. But I cannot afford to overlook the possibility that writing about the shit that pisses me off actually helps me resolve my anger issues.
So, whether anybody actually reads this piece of shit blog of mine or not; I am sorry. I hope to supply a fairly frequent pace of posts again. And, along with those posts, I hope to relieve some stress and frustration and become a better me. Why am I being so sappy? Because I’m tired of yelling at people over nonsense issues. Because I’m tired of having to apologize to my close friends and family for being such an asshole all the time. Because I hate walking into a room knowing that people are talking shit about me; not because they’re talking shit about me, but, because I know I deserve it.
But, enough of this ‘opening up’ session. Let’s blog on, people.
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Snowfall in Spring
Yup. It’s the end of April and there was a major snowfall last night.
This blows.
I caught a cold.
That sucks, too.
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Dilemma - Changed Hosts
I just recently changed my hosting services for this blog from 1and1 to Hostgator. And, I gotta tell you, it was a fucking dilemma.
The first issue came right from the get go and just trickled on. To cancel my package with 1and1 I had to put a request in. No problem except for the fact that the request form didn’t make much sense. In the drop box where you choose your cancellation date, your two options are “Soon as possible” and “In 30 days”.
Here’s a screenshot (from their FAQ) of the cancellation form.
Notice the (=End of Contract) text next to the drop box? It would of helped if that was one of the options. So my options were to cancel in 30 days but that would have exceeded my contract term and I was scared that they would bill me. So, I chose “Soon as Possible” assuming that the “End of Contract” text meant that regardless of what I picked, I would have until the end of the contract. Wrong. My contract was canceled right away.
I had hoped to have at least 10 days to move all of my files and domains but that plan quickly went to shit. I contacted 1and1 and asked for access to my files. Seeing as I have paid them up until the 27th I figured I can at least have access to my webspace. Wrong again. My webspace was already wiped clean. They said that the only way to get my files was if I had another package with them that they could transfer the files to. For them to have the ability to transfer my files that must mean they still have them laying around somewhere. A few emails later, 1and1 was kind enough to put all of my files into a .rar file and gave me access to download it.
Problem solved, right? Fuck no. Some of my directories were missing. Some really important directories with really important documents. So, I emailed them again today and am awaiting a response.
To make matters worse, the fact that the package was canceled right away meant that I was unable to get the authorization codes of my domains. For those of you who don’t know about the authorization codes of domains. It is necessary to be able to transfer domains from one registrar (host) to another. Luckily, not all of my domains, including furiousfrank.com, were registered by 1and1.
For those 1and1 defenders out there. Let it be known that I am not throwing all the blame on 1and1. It was my fault for not asking when I wasn’t sure. It’s just this whole process is fucking frustrating.
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