Hotel Operators Are Really Quick and Efficient, And Why Shot-Online Is Currently My New Favorite Time Waster
You may have noticed that I have yet to discuss the nightmare I suffered while building my sister’s new computer.
Don’t expect the blog entry regarding this any time soon :P.
Quick-hitters:
- This is either the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while, or the most disturbing.
I’m inclined to vote for the latter.
-For the last few days, I’ve been getting annoying junk phone calls on my cell phone. Most of the calls are from 818 #s, advertising cleaning and maid services.
Here’s the caller ID# of the last two calls I’ve gotten from these clowns: 818-648-295.
(Um…)
(And please save the “That’s probably caller ID spoofing.” There’s a good chance that’s the case.)
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,400 on the nose. About a third of that is currently unfiled 
- A couple of days ago, I sold an item on Amazon.com, and the buyer wanted the item shipped to the Radisson Lexington Hotel. Having never shipped a package to a hotel before, I emailed the Radisson for information regarding shipping packages there.
By Monday—I emailed the Radisson on Saturday—I did not get a reply, so I called the Radisson’s toll free number. When I got to a live operator, I explained my situation. Before I could finish, though, the operator told me that I had to contact the Radisson Lexington Hotel directly; I should have known that the toll-free number was the Radisson’s national hotline. She gave me the direct number to the hotel (the 212 # listed on the web site to which I linked above), and hung up almost immediately afterwards.
I called the 212 #, got to the front desk, and explained my situation to the front desk operator. About half a second after I finished my question, I heard the muzak again.
When I finally got to the correct department, I explained my situation a third time. The rep explained what I had to do, and after I told him that that was all the information I needed, he quickly said “take care” and hung up.
Total time spent on the phone: four minutes, tops. If only my calls to Sprint could last that long AND be that effective.
- My Nintendo Wii is gathering dust. My Guitar Hero guitars are buried somewhere in my office. My PS2? It’s around here somewhere? Why am I seemingly avoiding my console games?
Meet my new gaming addiction: Shot-Online. Now, I’m a fan of the Tiger Woods series of golf games. I’m NOT at all a fan of MMORPGs, though, but this game is thoroughly enjoyable. The game is extremely easy to pick up—if you can click a mouse three times, you can play—difficult to master, and about 99% of the players that play Shot-Online are nice guys (this may be completely untrue, but when I think of MMORPGs, I think of ten year olds that must use an obscenity in every sentence spoken, written, or typed).
(As I was typing up this blog entry, I just got kicked out of a Shot-Online game in which I was dominating. Stupid server maintenance!!!)
I picked a female character in this game, and I’ve already been hit on a couple times. You should have seen one guy’s reaction when I pointed out that I was really a guy! Maybe I should try to use my female character to score some money or loot :P.
EDIT: So far, I have two characters. The first, my primary character, is named fdsfdsg. Yes, it was created when I slammed my fingers on the home row of my keyboard. I had no intention of playing this game for very long, until I actually started playing. My other character is named Hospitalsrule, a tribute to my Calculus professor butchering the pronunciation of “L’Hopital.”
Yes, I’m a dork.