Kain's Domain

Well, it turns out last night wasn't as uneventful as I originally thought. As soon as I finished posting my blog, I tweaked my template just a tiny bit and re-saved it. But for some reason, the upload was going so extremely slooooow, so I hit Stop, waited a while, and then tried again (it said it went through okay the second time.)

I republished the site, but as it turned out, BlogSpot didn't take to the second upload, it only took the canceled one. Which meant only the first half or so of the template (all the CSS code and a couple lines of the layout) went through, and the second half (the layout) was eaten up. Since I hadn't gotten around to really saving the template locally, I had to go through and try to restore the main layout.

I managed to get to bed early last night, which is helping me get on schedule to be able to make it to my new job when it starts in a week. I slept for maybe 10 hours, as my alarm actually went off this morning. I have to change the time again so it'll go off even earlier now...

So I got another call from Time Warner, asking me if I would be interested in their "All-in-One" service (Roadrunner, Digital Cable, Digital Phone.) We already have Roadrunner and Digital Cable, and while it would be nice to have everything "all in one bill", that doesn't justify the extra cost of the digital phone over our plain old analog phone bill.

Anyways, I got a call in the middle of last week, from Time Warner, wanting to tell us about their All-in-One service. I gave my normal reply, that the person who makes those decisions wasn't home, and that got them off the phone. The following day, right before dinner, a man from Time Warner shows up at my door to talk to us about the All-in-One service. So we show him our phone bill, and it turns out that the Digital Phone would cost several bucks more than our analog phone bill. So he skims down the Time Warner bill, and he's like, "I see you have Cinemax and Showtime, you watch them both?"

As if I'm willing to get rid of 20 of my channels just to pay more for something I already have. He's like, "You get free long distance..." to which I reply that everyone I would call lives in this town anyways. To make a long story short, he left without making a sale.

So the following day, I get another call from Time Warner, wanting to tell us about their All-in-One service. And yes, another call the beginning of this week, and the day after that, and the day after that. So when they called earlier, I was like, "We've had a different person calling us about this service practically every day for the last week, someone even showed up at our door to talk to us about it. We are not interested in it right now."

Don't these people talk to each other to find out who's been pestered already?