Back on track
I just finished up my International Marketing class and happy to report that I have earned an A.
Apple(mis)Care
Dear Apple Computer,
I’ve had the most unusual apple experience since I switched back in 2000. First let me explain. I purchased an iBook on 02/16/05, I did not purchase AppleCare because I knew I had a year to buy it before the warranty expired.
On February 15th I called the Apple Store to purchase AppleCare. I explained to my representative that I needed to have it activated today as tomorrow the warranty expired. I was assured that it would in fact be activated and that it wouldn’t be an issue. He then transferred me to Kim in AppleCare. Kim explained that because I didn’t have an enrollment number she couldn’t help me but said that it would most likely be activated within the next 20 minutes and to call back in check. I waited twenty minutes and called back and I again spoke with Kim. She reassured me that it was activated and I was set to go. She gave me my computers serial number so I could check online.
I hung up and was satisfied that I had AppleCare on my iBook. I began to check online by entering the serial number into your support page. It kept returning with no AppleCare installed. This happened until I got home, and was nervous so I again called AppleCare. This time I spoke with Monique. Monique informed me that AppleCare was not activated on my iBook and that in order to have it covered I needed to purchase it with her so it would be immediately activated on my account. Again, I purchased AppleCare this time through Monique and she explained to me that I would need to call the Apple Store back and speak to Solutions Support in order to have the original AppleCare cancelled.
In this experience I spoke with with four different people five times. If I had believed Kim my iBook would not have been covered and I would have had AppleCare shipped to me that was unusable. I understand and will take some blame for waiting until the day before my warranty expired to purchase AppleCare. However, waiting until the day before to purchase AppleCare should not have ultimately ended in a very un-Apple experience that I suffered through. My suggestion would be to have anyone who is seeking to purchase AppleCare through the store at the same time your AppleCare experts are available to transfer them to that department so the warranty becomes activated instantly.
Please pass along warm wishes and my gratitude to Monique she turned this experience around and provided the excellent customer service that many of your AppleCare specialists should strive to achieve.
Sincerely,
Shawn
a lump…
So i’ve noticed this lump on the inside of my lower lip. It’s hard, about the size of a pea maybe.
It’s not growing, but it’s not going away.
It’s most likely nothing, but I still wanna make an appointment with my dentist to have it checked out. With my families history of cancer, there’s really no reason for me not to have it checked out.
Still one’s mind wanders…
frustration
Tonight instead of running like I wanted to or working my legs. I spent 2.5 hours at school doing nothing.
It would have been better to seperate the group work and just come prepared. But instead we wasted time.
I need to write the intro and conclusion. I can’t write right now, I am very tired from today but I will wake up tomorrow and get to work early so I can work on my paper.
I also want to run tomorrow. I feel bad I didn’t run today.
Tomorrow is my last International Marketing class and then we move onto Finance! This past class has been amazing and I am really looking forward to the Finance class.
I plan on getting up earlier tomorrow so I can work on the paper and get it done before class. It won’t be too difficult but it’s time to finish it up.
I’ve delayed most of my MBA stuff, but part of me is wondering if I should continue at ODU or not. I probably will. I want my MBA.
I reactivated my TIVO! It’s the best thing in the world.
Anyways I need to laydown… Good night
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This is from 10tv….. Oddly enough this happened about four blocks away from my house.
People living in the neighborhood say it’s safe, regardless of what happened.
Investigators say they are still trying to determine who this woman is.
changes
Usually things like someone telling me to fuck off would prompt this whole spiral down into depression. Sinking lower into the depths of the murky water and spending weeks trying to just make myself surface above the water.
Tonight I got into an argument with an acquantice some of you know who I am talking about, and for those of you who don’t it truly isn’t important…
Continuing on, tonight we get into an IM argument. I think he was trying to make me jealous and he was just being vague. Vagueness is something I can’t stand. Just stand up say it and move on.
Basically, I did the same childish things to him that he’s done to me. Which in and of its self isn’t the most mature thing to do but sometimes I have a desire to mimic behavior to exeplify bad behavior in others.
Well, needless to say it back fired. I got a rather nasty IM berating me about my attitude, my lack of a boy friend and my 3.0 GPA.
After asking if he was done with his insults he replied with a Fuck Off.
So yes, thank you for liberating me, thank you for not letting me worry about you or your childish games you played with me. Thank you for allowing myself to see that you were truly not worth it. Thank you for trying to insult me about not finding a boyfriend. If you were any friend you would have noticed the whole desperation and search for one is not important in my life right now.
This would have sent me spiraling down the depths of depression, but now I just realize that sometimes people have their own inner demons they are trying to work out. I’m glad I didn’t allow my wicked tongue to get the best of me. I left with out worry on how I treated someone.
This upcoming week should be challenging. I have a presentation and final on Tuesday. I am gonna run again M-W-F. I’d like to be able to get upto eight miles this week with my running. I’m working all week but my boss is gone Monday and Tuesday for V-Day. I have a few reports I need to finish up and send out. I get to be on call this week and will have the pager with me until next Tuesday.
I didn’t do much this weekend, a cancelled hockey game, replacement contacts and picked up my glasses. Hung out with some old friends in town and caught up on my reading. I’m almost finished with my January book, which is good considering it is now Feb and the book is overdue to the library.
Now it’s time to watch the 11 rerun of the L-Word before I fall asleep.
impressiveness
This past week was amazing. Without spending too much time going into the details. I was able to meet my goal of $5,000 of debt reduction and actually surpassed it by $400. That’s a fantastic feeling and now just to continue through with my debt reduction as if I didn’t meet my goal.
Also, I started running. I ran three times last week. I do the walk one minute run two minutes. My heart rate is extremely high (I know thanks to my Polar HR Monitor) and I need to work on getting it within the right range. I was able to run a total of 6.29 miles this week at 30 minute a pop. It’s not anything earth shattering but for me it’s very good.
To kind of support my running goal I signed up for RunnersWorld and I signed up for their forum.
The only two things that have bothered me is some calf tightenting as I run, and my feet tend to fall asleep. I heard it could be the shoes so I need to run over to the New Balance store at Tuttle this week to see what they say.
The rest of the weekend should be pretty calm. Picking up my glasses and telling my doctor that these contacts don’t work for me. I think I’d like to try some acuvue contacts instead of these purevision.
running as fast as you can
I’ll preface everything by simply stating… I am not a runner. I don’t have the runners build and being overweight running just rips me apart. I’ve done a very good job at avoiding running at every cost.
Oddly enough though, I really want to start running 5K’s. I know, it’s a big deal (3.2 miles or something). I know I have a 5K partner at work. She’s been really amazing with my whole working out. She compliments me and makes a big deal out of seeing me just saying how much I’ve changed. I don’t think she realizes just how much I appreciate her whole attitude towards me. It’s really something everyone should have.
Let me give you an example of two events. I was standing talking to an admin before I went into see someone at work. She’s about 20 feet away and starts talking at the top of her lungs “look at you skinny.” Now, I am no where near skinny but it felt good.
The other event was when we were both walking into the building at the same time. I managed to walk up beside her and she didn’t recognize me. Just it’s nice…
Anyways, she said anytime I want to start running a few 5K’s to let her know and we’d start running them together. So, I think if I take six-eight weeks and get my ass in running gear I wanna start running them with her.
Now, does anyone have any tips for a non runner to get into 5K shape?
misc update
I forgot a couple of things from yesterday….
First, I have a freckle inside my eye…. Freaky…..
Now, I am trying to do some reading for class but I am simply unmotivated….
There’s a rumor that apple will soon be coming out with a 1 gig Nano priced around the same price as a shuffle…. I do need a workout ipod, as it is a little large and cumbersome… But we’ll see, a condo is more promising thatn a new 1 gig nano….
eye care
In the past I’ve tried to hit up stylish short north (IE gay friendly) optomotrsists for my vision needs. After my last experience of my glasses waiting to go through customs for what seemed to be months I decided to just visit my old optomotrist and visit lenscrafters. I went in for my eye exam and contact fitting, plus I wanted to check out a new pair of glasses.
Long story short, I ended up purchasing a six month supply of contacts and a new pair of versace glasses. All in all I paid out around 300 dollars.
{Now, I know what you’re thinking… digitalshawn, didn’t you say no frivilious spending? Well it’s true I did. Last year when it was time to enroll in benefits I decided to open up a FSA (Flexible Spending Account). I am able to use pre-tax dollars on health related items (prescriptions, glasses, contacts, etc). }
With the use of my FSA I actually spent less money this year on glasses and contacts than I did last year on one single pair of glasses.
Of course keeping with the digitalshawn is cursed when it comes to glasses theme, I didn’t get my glasses in about an hour. They acutally had to order the lenses in and will take seven to ten days. The upside is that the frame is already there sitting anxiously awaiting my lenses.
Anywho for those who are interested, the pic of the glasses I am getting is below.
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