YAPOR (Yet Another Post Office Rant), BofA Tops The List, FOOD!!!, and Weird Computer Problems
This will be a two-part blog entry, and to satisfy all my loyal readers (all none of you), I’ll split today’s blog into sports- and non-sports entries.
Quick-hitters, part 1:
- The Office is back tonight!!! YAY!!!!!
Sadly, I missed Heroes, but I’ll catch it this weekend. No spoilers, please! I also missed my new favorite show: Law & Order SVU.
- Stupid me. I almost missed a payment on a credit card! It is due 10/2, and I just realized that yesterday. Worse, I won’t be able to get money into my checking account in time to make an e-payment! D’oh!
(Fortunately, I have money in my other checking account to make the payment, but that will require me to mail in a check. You people remember what a personal check looks like, right?)
- Another trip to the PO, and another bit of sheer ridiculousness. Another woman decided to hold up the line, filling out her damn forms. Unlike last time, this woman’s act was FAR worse: she had her back facing the registers, filling out her forms, and preventing others from going ahead of her, even when the clerks called on the next person!
She was acting so ridiculously that I decided to make a drawing of the situation, using my 1337 MS Paint skillz 
(Tangent: I don’t have any “skillz,” as the drawing below will indicate.)
I’ll ask again: WHAT PART OF “PLEASE HAVE FORMS READY BEFORE GETTING IN LINE” IS SO FREAKING DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND????????
You should have seen her reaction when one of the clerks demanded that the next customer be helped before her. Damn stupid people…
- Congrats, Bank of Freaking America. You have finally topped my list.
(I can picture Hank thinking, “What could BofA do to top Time Warner?” Read on.)
In need of funds to pay off my credit card (the same one mentioned in the quick-hitters section), I ran off to BofA to withdraw some money from my checking account. I got to the ATM, inserted my ATM card, entered my PIN, punched in the amount of money I needed, and stuck my hand out by the cash dispenser, waiting for my cash.
That’s when the ATM spit out my ATM card, and said something to the effect of “Screw you; you can’t use this card.”
The account will be closed as soon as I get my lazy a$$ to a BofA branch to empty out the account. I would have closed the account over the phone, but apparently I need to empty the account first.
The list now looks like this:
- BoFA (the “F” is capitalized for a reason now)
- Time Warner
- Citibank
- CompUSSR
- (tie) Parago, USPS, Buy.com, etc.
- I don’t know if you people know this, but I love food. My sister and mom came by this past weekend because their computer was on the fritz, so naturally I asked insisted begged my mom to cook us some food. She made us a huge pot of curry for lunch, and like the spoiled children that we are, we also got a special meal for dinner. I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s made with crepes filled with ground chicken, chopped long beans, peanuts, shredded coconut, and shrimp. You’re supposed to peel off pieces of the crepe, wrap it in a piece of lettuce, and dip it in a sauce.
Abso-freaking-lutely-delicious (sorry, no pics!). I have got to get the recipe for this stuff!
Oh yeah, the curry wasn’t half bad either. It was a bit thin, but who am I to complain?
- As for the computer on the fritz, my sister told me that the computer would turn on, but nothing would display on the monitor, and the hard disk LED would stay a solid red. I took the PSU out of that computer and stuck it in my secondary computer; the system turned on, but the monitor LED was flashing yellow ( = no input). So I figured that the power supply was shot, and figured that the entire system was as well. To test this, I stuck my spare PSU–a cheapy, FAR Raidmax PSU that weighed about as much as a can of soda (seriously!)–into their computer, and as expected, the system turned on, but no display.
I advised my sister on her options–build a brand new one or build a cheap one using some of the parts I had lying around–and she decided on the latter. I installed what used to be my primary computer–a P4 2.4Ghz on an Asus P4PE–into her case, hooked up all her drives, and the system fired up. To my amazement, I didn’t even need to repair Windows XP! I ran a few tests while my sisters were playing Guitar Hero, and handed my sister her newly-working computer. She offered to pay me for the parts, which I gladly accepted.
(Tangent: Was it not cool for me to enjoy beating the snot out of my sisters in Guitar Hero? I know that older siblings love doing that to younger siblings, but I, as the youngest sibling, really enjoyed the beatdown :P. I don’t remember ever talking that much trash after winning at anything before.
me <– can be a bad sport)
I got an IM from my sister that night, telling me that the “new” computer didn’t work! She told me that it had exactly the same symptoms as before! Argh…
Just for kicks, I hooked up the shot PSU to my DOSBox, and amazingly, it worked! I’m beginning to think that the surge strip, or the outlet itself, might be causing all the problems. Or maybe it’s the computer case…in any event, the computer will be back here this weekend. I hope it doesn’t rain; I feel like having a BBQ this weekend.
So now I have a dilemma. The computer left my possession in working condition, so am I allowed to charge my sister for the parts?
Later tonight, part 2 of this blog entry, including my Week 3 (Fantasy) Football thoughts.