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September 19 The Ability To Reason: What Seperates Us From The AnimalsCurrent Temp: 68  Current Mood:  11 days until we move to Davidsdoll.com Of all the things that I have thrown away, and all the stupid ass shit Ive saved, I am glad to all hell that I kept the reciept to my digital camera. For the love of god, I am proud of myself. I may have never shoved another reciept into that "reciepts" envelope that I made and then stuffed into that folder where I was keeping his paystubs, but con sarnit, I kept the one that I needed. Everyone told me "Oh you should save ALL of your reciepts. Organize them and when the 30 day exchange is over you put them into another envelope. Youll thank me when your digital camera malfunctions my dear." Pish posh I said...or maybe it was like "Meh, I dont need to do that," but something must have soaked through my thick skull and I saved ONE reciept. I dont have the reciept for my laptop, which sorely needs repairs, but for crying out in the night I saved the reciept for my camera. Not that it was really necessary, because Im sure they could have eventually found my warranty number and what not with a little digging, but it saved me about 6 minutes, of this I am certain. Save your reciepts. So anyway, my wonderful loverly camera that I cary on my person whenever I leave has gone, how do you say? Kaput. Or...ta' shit. Or maybe my shizzle's gone fazizzle! Basically in the past month, my little digi cam has been deteriorating and it finally met its end. (It mostly doesnt have to do with it falling off the top of our stairs, seriously, because it would have been broken sooner if that were it. I blame Panasonic.) I purchaced my cam on 10/2/05 from the good people at Circuit City. With it, I invested in their "whoopsie doodle!" plan, or as they call it, the Service Protection plan. Boy am I glad I did that. About a month ago, I was noticing that one side of the camera lens wasnt opening all the way. I would have to gently tap it, then it would go. Probably some crap stuck in there or something. Well, then about last week, my computer was no longer recognising that Ive plugged in its camera friend. I checked it out, and its not the USB port, so its either the camera or the cord its self. Ive had to hold the camera and the cord at a certain angle in order for it to connect to the computer. If I let go, the little bloopie "you unplugged the thingy" sound would come out of the compuer and I was no longer able to connect. Then, the worst happened. I was making my peach cobbler last night, and I wanted to video blog it. I turn on my camera and the pictures are completley distorted and melted. It was like watching a bad acid trip music video. I tried switching it between modes and it would clear up, but then this big heavy purple spot would show up. I took it into other rooms, I focused it, I did everything. The pictures it takes are either melted and negitive or striped like looking through window shades. I connected it to the computer, because I wondered if they just appearned on the camera as distorted. Nope, camera is busted. It takes shitty pictures. And thats when I dug for my reciept. So I call up my pals over at Circuit City via their 1800 number. The nice man asked me for my ticket number and I said "Why yes, I can give you my ticket number because I SAVED MY RECIEPT!" Then I calmed down and gave him the number. I explained to him the problems I was having and he asked me to call Panasonic, as it was their problem since it was still under their warranty for the next 12 days, HA HA! I tell my new friend thank you and we have a bittersweet goodbye, for my camera was not yet under the Protection Plan that I had purchaced. That will kick in on the third. So I call up miss lady at Panasonic. I tell her the machine is crap. (Well I was nicer than that, Im just trying to shorten the story a bit.) She tells me that Ill have to send it to "their" service techs in Illinois. She gives me the number, so I call miss lady in Illinois. I called and asked her if I would need to pay for the shipping or if they would be sending me the box. GET THIS...NOT ONLY did they want MUA to pay for the shipping, they wanted $150 to cover the labor. Aparantly, Panasonic's labor warranty ended at 90 days, but theyll buy me my 10 cent washers. My eyes did that bug out of the head thing. Like Large Marge! And he looked like THIS  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You guys have seen Pewee's Big Adventure right? If you havent, watch this video. (And on a related note, the place that Marge drops him off? That dinosaur place? Thats by my house! About 10 miles from here in Cabazon.) Anyhoo, back to my story. I said to the lady I says, "What? you want $150 to fix a $250 camera? PLUS parts? What do you people take me for?" "Well youll have to discuss that with Panasonic maam" "I sure will, thank you for your time." Now I call Miss Panasonic back, and I tell her that shes nuts if she thinks Im paying $150 to fix a camera that THEY BROKE! (Shhhh...remember, it may not have been my fault.) She tells me that its standard. I tell her that its highway robbery, and to just send me a new camera. "Well maam, we dont cover labor anymore because that part of your warranty ended at 90 days." "So do you guys do that on purpose because you know that the camera is going to break in a year?" "Um...no maam" "Well how do I know that its not going to do this EVERY year? Huh? Then where will I be? You know, the camera I have isnt even on your website anymore, and Circuit City has it listed at only $150 now. For the price that you guys are going to rip me, I could get a whole new camera on my own. And I might as well buy it from another company because aparantly Panasonic products break to shit after a year." "No maam, our products are always top performance and I dont see why youre having this problem." "Well I know why, its because the warranty is up and you guys want to rip me for more than the camera is worth and offer me free parts that probably cost you a total of $3." "Maam, your warranty is 8 months expired, there is nothing I can do to extend it for you." "So, would it be more worth my while to wait 12 days and then ask Circuit City to fix the damn thing? I mean I plan on resolving this issue and I want it done for less than $150, for free actually, because why else did I pay for the warranty through them if its going to cost me more than my electric bill to fix a camera thats not worth it?" "If you have the warranty plan through Circuit City, then they will pay the $150, not you." My little doggy ears perked up. "Baroooooooooo?" Actually, it was my suprised owl look.  "Yes maam, Circuit City covers the labor as soon as our warranty ends with you, so their warranty has kicked in 8 months ago, and if you call them back right now, youll be able to have them take care of it for you." "So...like Circuit City will cut the check?" "Yes maam, thats with their warranty plan that you purchaced." "Me likie very much. Me thank you." (Dramatization.) So I call my peeps down at the CC and they tell me that they have someone who will be sending me a pre paid box, and in it I will stuff my camera and all of its cute little components, and it will arrive back to me good as new within 10 business days. Or, better, a new camera will arrive to replace the old one. Or, theyll call me and say "Jessie, we know that you dropped it a few weeks ago, so we think we shal blame you for this. Wheres our $150?" Although Im not sending it to the Illinois place, Im sending it to whoever Circuit City wants me to. Technically whats happening is Panasonic will cover the parts, and my CC bitches are paying to have it fixed. To my list of the best words ever, which includes "Free Pie" as number one, I would also like to add "Extended Warranty." Had I been a sucker, Id of either given up, or worse, paid the $150. Lucky for me, I am smarter than the av-er-age customer service representitive. Plus Im cheap. I suppose "Jewing it down" is what they say, but Ive been told that its very derogitive to say it, so I wont. Unfortunatley, this means no Stuff Portrait Friday for me this week and possibly next. However I may be able to con my sister into lending me her old digi cam. Man, its a dinosaur machine, but its not too bad. She bought it when digi cams first came out. Back then it was like "Why would you want to buy a digital camera? Where do you put the pictures?" This is before the Walmarts and the liquor stores had the little machines that you bring your memory card to and you get prints right there on the double. I believe its like a 2 megapixel with like a 2x zoom. She bought it for like $350, and you have to wait about 10 seconds after taking a picture for it to load again, but it will suffice should I need it. You know, incase my kids poop out orange peels and I choose to document it photographicly and put it on the internet. And there are so many things that I want to show you but I cant. Aurora is asleep with her butt straight up in the air in the middle of the kitchen floor and shes snoring. My birds are totally making out. Its beautiful outside and I cant show you the couple of leaves that have fallen. If I knit something I cant list it and then spam you! I cant take pictures of David's man panties. This sucks. This seriously sucks. Whats cool though is I think Ty is finally potty ready. I forgot to buy pull ups this week, and we are out, so ofcorse hes been forced into underware. Hes done really well, even with the poop. I like having self sufficient children, theyre the true blessings. All it takes is the promise of one Hershey's Kissables as a reward (theyre about the size of a chocolate chip.) Dont worry, I know how to ween him off of the reward system too. "Well nobody gives Mommy or Daddy any candy for going pee pee on the potty, because we are big. You are big too." Now its just a matter of teaching him to tell us when he has to go in public. I expect accidents, but Id like to limit them. Anyway, I read something that made me laugh last night...I guess some Spanish models were rejected because their body mass index was too low. Now, the reason why I laugh, is on the same day I read that, I read this in a myspace blog belonging to a girl I use to know... Maybe I should just gain like 80lbs. What the fuck is it with guys I
date? They always want fucking fat girls! I bet that if I turned
myself into a fucking cow, I might actually get a boyfriend that
fucking wants me. Maybe you should, I mean its just a thought. Maybe if you didnt look like a carrot stick on tooth pics you wouldnt have been divorced at 21. But this isnt about her, ofcorse, this is about the whole concept that society is changing. Honestly, when is the last time youve heard someone seriously say that Paris is pretty? Google her name, youll find an article on Wikipedia in which it mentions a cartoon that someone made of her dying, a link to her sex video, and a link to the Hilton hotel in Paris, France. I bought David a shirt that says "I  hot moms." Honestly, it was the last one in stock that day. I dont want to get really deep into this, but maybe mankind is instinctually trying to breed with people who have large enough bodies to carry an embrio. I mean, Im not necessaraly talking about Large Marge, but seriously...the transformation is happening people, and you got it here first. (Both here and my new blog location at Davidsdoll.com in which I will be moving to October 1st.) By the way, are you all acquainted with that yet? Have you all updated your links and RSS feeds? I deffinatley think that I like it over at blogger. Ive had to bust out my HTML skills...or lack there of. I did use a template builder, but I ended up having to revise what they gave me. I changed the size of the blog its self, so its no longer the skinny column it was, and Ive changed the banner at the top a few times. I also added pictures in a few places, and hell...Im proud of myself. Its awesome. I want to add a Junk Food area so I can link up all of my trashy stuff. Oh speaking of trashy stuff, you can swear in the title over there. Also, I dont think they give a damn about nudity. Over here, you post a nekkid person and theyll shut you down. Over there I think you can pretty much run a porn site, Ive seen them. Its exciting. Anyway, I was pretty shocked when David came home tonight and pulled a huge wad of cash out of his pants. He got his last Staters check today, and there was a little extra on there. Turns out that they paid him for all the sick days he never took, the personal days he never took, and "termination vacation." "I thought it said $87 but then I realized that I was covering some digits." "Fuck. You should have quit Staters a long time ago..." Needless to say, I think we will be ok this month. Comments (1)
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