Living in a furnace

I live in Northern California, so the weather is pretty nice year round.&nbsp_place_holder; My thermostat only has heaters in the living area; the bathroom and bedroom have separate baseboard heaters.&nbsp_place_holder; I usually leave those doors closed to save energy (and I don’t really even turn on those heaters as it doesn’t get that cold).&nbsp_place_holder; I have the living area temperature set to 62 or so (inaccurate gauge, mind you; it’s closer to 68).&nbsp_place_holder; This morning, I open the bedroom door to enter my living room to a heat blast.&nbsp_place_holder; It must be 75 or more in here.&nbsp_place_holder; I even turned the gauge down to “LOW” (which is below 50), but there is still hot air coming out of the vents.&nbsp_place_holder; I have to get a programmable format, but of course my thermostat is run off of line voltage, which is trickier and more expensive.&nbsp_place_holder; This all presumes that I don’t pass out from sweating out all the water in my system.

Citibank Premiere Pass

So, I’m sick of Credit Card companies promising one thing and delivering something else! I mean, these new Citibank Premiere Pass credit card commercials are awesome. They are funny, and the product sounds incredible.&nbsp_place_holder; I mean, I get miles on purchases and for the miles I fly… Plus I still get my airline miles as well from the airline. Can’t beat that!

But, alas, it’s a sham! You don’t actually get those miles that you earned flying until you’ve spent that much money on the card. So if you fly to Hong Kong for $1,000 bucks on the card, you get 1000 points for the purchase and like 10,000 for the flight… but you can only use 1,000 of those flight miles. Until you spend another $9,000 (!!!) dollars on the card, those points can’t be used. What a farce! And yet, they really don’t explain that in their commercials…

Oh, by the way, the card also has a $75 dollar annual fee. I mean, is that really necessary since the program pretty much sucks anyways?

Please, someone tell the new Democrats to do something about this. If a company makes a claim, they should have to meet it… REGARDLESS of what their disclosure says! Don’t give me disclosures, give me truthful advertising!

Thanks for allowing me to submit this. I feel better now.

ladies bathroom

this scenario occurs all too often.&nbsp_place_holder; you are female, wishing to use the bathroom at a bar.&nbsp_place_holder; the bathroom has two stalls.&nbsp_place_holder; by the end of the evening, one stall has a door that will not lock & generally won’t even close.&nbsp_place_holder; the other may have a functioning door/lock, but will inevitably house a commode hopelessly clogged with toilet paper and other more unpleasant things.&nbsp_place_holder; and the line of women intending to use such inadequate facilities will be out the door.&nbsp_place_holder;

Dumbass Major League Baseball

So I just had to cancel my subscription to MLB.TV… I was paying $15 bucks a month to watch really shotty quality streaming baseball games on my computer. But then I realize that you can’t watch any of the games for teams that you actually live close to, even when they are playing 3,000 miles away!!

Give me a freaking break!… why anyone even signs up for this is beyond me. I guess they think people will pay and just forget to cancel it. Or maybe it’s for all the ass Yankees and Sox Bandwagoners who don’t live within 500 miles of either city. Fucking Fascists! (Can I cuss on here?) (Admin edit: It appears you just did.)

By the way, the MLB.TV product doesn’t really compete with TV. If you have the game on TV, you watch that. There is no reason to freaking block a game because it’s on ESPN. IDIOTS!

cell phone etiquette

if you’re on a crowded bus during rush hour, please do not use that time to test every single one of your cell phone rings to determine which will be the coolest one to use.&nbsp_place_holder;&nbsp_place_holder;

and i think the same can be said if you’re on an uncrowded bus.&nbsp_place_holder; or metro – crowded or uncrowded.&nbsp_place_holder; in fact, in any public space.&nbsp_place_holder; and at any time, not just rush hour.&nbsp_place_holder;&nbsp_place_holder;