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Microsoft can kiss my ass

I’m definitely not a big fan of Microsoft, but I do admit that I use some of their products … mainly Windows XP and Office. I also use Microsoft Money. I have Money 2003. I’ve been thinking of trying something different. I checked out Quicken this weekend. I wanted to download a trial, but you have to pay to download it and then you can cancel/return/whatever within 30 or 60 days. I don’t wanna do  […]

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Stupid federal holidays

Dammit. I just realized that Monday is President’s Day. That means that the post office is closed. Shit. I was planning on mailing that letter on Monday. Now I’m going to have to go to the JSND office on my lunch to see if I can fax it in instead so they get it within their damn 7 day time frame. That’s not going to leave me much, if any, time to eat lunch since  […]

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I wanna play with it

I went to Best Buy after work to see if they had my mp3 player in store. I also wanted to get my hands on it to play around with it somewhat. They have the black and green one in the store. It wasn’t on display, but teh 4GB one was. It was on display but it wasn’t turned on. So I asked a sales person who was nearby. He acted like he didn’t want  […]

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What the hell is Verizon smoking?

I got an email from Verizon earlier tonite telling me that my latest statement is available online. It also said that my current balance is $61.21. :censored: Normally my bill is around $55 since I upgraded my phone and got a text/picture message package. Why the hell is it $61?

So, I went to view my statement online. In the usage charges, it has 74 text messages listed under “Unbilled Usage from Previous Months”. ‘scuz me?  […]

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Simple question

But apparently a very complicated answer. :banghead:

It all started when I got the invoice for my December car payment. On it, it had total amount due of around $428 but regular scheduled payment of about $250. For the entire duration of the loan, payments have been about $250. So, because of the differing numbers, I called Wells Fargo on December 8th during my lunch break to get things straightened out.

The lady I talked to  […]

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