No Blog today - my brain has gone away!!
But this week started off with a bang.
Because it is our busy tax season I work weekends, in fact, we basically work, on call, seven days running and running until...well the end of April. So when dear husband asked me to have the appointment letters mailed out on Monday...and this was Sunday morning...I got busy and wrote them out.
Of course, after several warnings, which I ignored, my postal machine was low on postage and when I went to fill it I received a message that it was indeed transacting with the automatic refill and then....
'connection lost'
try again, and again and again.
A call to customer service - no answer because this is a WEEKEND. Okay, try again...and again....for an hour. Flames now shooting out of my ears and the air around me blue I tried contacting them via email. No live chat. Last resort (and I have done this before)....email the PRESIDENT.
Within five minutes he got back to me. No kidding. I have talked to Lou before, so I can call him Lou. He seems like a really attentive, concerned President ...and obviously works seven days a week. My kind of guy.
He passed along my concerns to tech and customer support and in due time I did receive emails from these two, with helpful suggestions. I am sure they were more than thrilled to be called on a Sunday by Lou.
Lo and behold 7:30 a.m. Monday morning I tried again and yes....I've got postage!! Envelopes stamped and happy husband.
Then I received a phone call.....from someone in tech support...who explained to me what he thought had happened. Bottom line - let's blame it on the computer.
I said, very nicely, that their company offers Postage on Demand, therefore it doesn't matter if it is a weekend, or three in the morning, if I dial up for a postage meter refill I should get it.
A lot of techno babble later - oh and English wasn't his first language plus he had a stutter and his name, kid you not, Hikey Wong - I finally, firmly, told Hikey that this was an on going problem and they should fix it because Lou and I were getting pretty tired of the whole thing.
In the end - I think he was happy to just hang up.
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Next - the house alarm on our daughters house went off. Which is strange because a lot of other things turned off...like the fridge!
As she bought her house from Gramps estate you can't really go and ask questions of the guy who used to live there. This alarm hasn't been on for years, in fact I thought it WOULDN'T go on because one of the windows wasn't quite right and the connection was lost. Well, I was wrong!
Luckily, and for reasons only known to my Psyche, I actually had the alarm code written down.
Then, a quick, late night call to the the man who is doing the renovations to the house, and who we know had been trying valiantly to do work around things with the electrical in the house.....and hopefully an electrician will be over this week to have a good look at the entire electrical system. Ca ching!
We are talking old school Gramps style fixing here - 'my friend at the club used to be an electrician and he said he will come over and look at this' I am sure there is a lot of double taping and even some chewing gum quick fix to be discovered. Oh Joy !!! At the moment the alarm is just beeping...every few seconds.
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There is a move afoot to have the GST exemption on menstrual products. (Guys...you can skip this part if you want.)
Incontinence products are exempt from this tax, and for reasons only known to the brains in the Government - so are wedding cakes.
One commenter wrote that the government shouldn't pander to this particular "special-interest group."
Special interest group????...we are talking half the population here - WOMEN! And menstrual products are not a luxury. Believe me if you asked women if they would rather not have their monthlies there would be a huge collective YEAH. It's not like we go to the spa for a week a month. Give us a break!
Things I have learned this week:
At times comments on the Internet are pretty entertaining.
For some weird reason there was a picture in the entertainment section of John Travolta giving Scarlet Johansson a kiss on the cheek while at the Oscars. I have to admit that John is looking better now that he has let his hair grow back - or got implants or is wearing a wig. ANYWAY, one of the comments under the picture made me laugh out loud, it read:
"Isn't John Travolta dead?'
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sometimes graffiti is funny
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Lately I have heard some bad things about that fav chocolate product Nutella. Like, even though the ads state how 'good' it is for you, it is still basically a jar of sugar. But now the firefighters in London, Ontario say the sun rays refracted by a Nutella jar on a window sill caused a house fire.
They couldn't just state a 'jar' but NO - they had to say a specific Nutella jar - really? What if it had been a Bick's pickles without garlic.........
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