Why am I writing this on Mel’s blog? Two good reasons. One is because she hasn’t posted in a while, and Two, I don’t want my husband to see it (as if he ever reads my blog, but just in case.) I want a damn new car. LISTEN! I love the Fury but it needs a new transmission, the vinyl roof looks like it has a bad case of psoriasis and the rear quarter panels are starting to rust and by the time I get around to getting all of that fixed I’d have spent the same amount as I would getting a new vehicle. I don’t want to sell the Fury, I want to park it and get those things done gradually. You know! RESTORE IT! A little bit at a time when I have extra cash I don’t mind blowing on a dinosaur. She’s forty years old and she needs some R&R. Let’s don’t even mention the fact she only gets about 12 miles to the gallon. That’s why those cars are only driven in parades, car shows and on weekends.

It’s not like we can’t afford one. My husband made over 100 grand last year and the only bills we have besides utilities and house payment is the Visa bill and that gets paid IN FULL every single month. We have money in the bank, and I’m not talking some piddly little shit, more than enough to buy me a brand new car without even taking out a loan and it has nothing to do with retirement. THAT is in another account. I personally have more than enough to buy one in my retirement CD’s he buys me every year to get a tax break but if I were to cash those in he’d kill me or divorce me one.

What’s the old man getting for Christmas? A pipe bender for Christ’s sake. You have any idea what that will cost? Let’s see. The pump alone is almost $2500 but he got lucky on that and found a brand new one on eBay for $750. We didn’t ask questions. It’s already in his workshop. The actual bender is another couple of thousand. Add that to the thousands of dollars he has in fishing equipment but has never even caught ONE fish. I’m not joking. He has at least ten different reels that cost anywhere between $200 and $400. He also has a Boston Whaler boat sitting on our driveway that’s been in the water maybe ten times. Oh Oh! Let’s not forget the welding machine he bought the first of the year. OR the fact he has THREE table saws. One of which is a Delta Unisaw that is sitting in the garage and has NEVER been used. That baby only cost $2300.

He asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said nothing. He said well there must be something you want. I told him he knew damn well what I wanted and if I wasn’t getting it to get me nothing. So I imagine on Christmas morning I’ll get some slipper socks and some jewelry that I’ll never wear. I don’t need anything in the line of computer electronics so those will be his most likely choices. Either that or another antique sewing machine. I have three of those. I asked for a sewing machine three years running and that’s what I got, antique ones. I guess that was supposed to be some kind of comment on what he thinks my ability to actually sew something is-

Anyways! I want a car, I’m not going to get one, and I’m PISSED! Merry Christmas!

when the one of the security guards (who is quite ancient) phoned my extension to tell me that I had a flat tire. Then before I could respond, he said “I don’t know how to change a flat.” So in other words, don’t ask him for help. I said GREAT THANKS (mumbled for nothing) and hung up the phone. I do know how to change a flat, but would rather not, it takes me forever. SO I called my husband, it was about 4 am. Told him I had a flat, and would he be kind enough to come and change it, that I would be finished working in about half an hour.

On my way out, I passed the OTHER ancient security guard, and before I could say anything he said “Bummer” but continued to sit there on his fat tired ass. No help there either. So I went outside, where I found the first ancient security guard watching my husband change my tire. And do you believe this? He had the nerve to say to my husband “We would have helped her change it if she needed it.” I flat out said, “Don’t lie like that Bobby, you just told me that you didn’t even know how, before I could even ask. In fact, so that I wouldn’t ask.” OF course he tried to say I misunderstood him. I don’t see how many ways you can misunderstand “I don’t know how to change a tire.” Ok then, I asked him, “Then what did you say and/or mean.” He just stuttered for a minute and pretended to be offended and went back inside.

Asshole.

This guy has no business being a security guard anyway. Especially in the middle of the night in dangerous downtown, where he is SUPPOSED to automatically walk every lady to her car but never does unless she asks him to. He’s over 65, he’s had a hip replacement and limps, he has emphysema, and everytime he has “inside duty” (they’re supposed to switch every hour) I’ve seen him asleep behind the front desk with his feet up, where he is SUPPOSED to be watching the monitor. I know about his health problems because he is sure to tell everyone who will listen to him for more than a minute.

I used to think, poor guy, it’s probably the only job he can get at his age, and he probably has no other income. But one night we got on the topic of incomes as I was leaving and he stopped me to run his mouth, and he told me that he makes 3000 a month from retirement funds and social security. Well, I’ll be damned. I don’t feel sorry for him anymore. In fact, I rather despise him these days.

We’ve all gotten the spam emails saying that if you give them your bank account, ssn, etc, you will make large amounts of money through their “transfers.” Now, someone has the nerve to actually create a website claiming the same thing. The funniest thing about this website, is that English is obviously not their first language, nor is it the first language for all the people who have given testimonials, including those in US, Great Britain, and Australia! LOL
http://www.bizjobworld.com/
Not an actual link, because I don’t want them getting hits from this site and coming here and spamming me to death.tax credit 2007 $800college acceptable accreditationsfirst credit utah america website unionlearning accredited distant programsforce credit air fed unioncards accept pda creditpoor loan 12000 creditcredit alaska insurance usa union Map

How does one sprain one’s foot just sitting still?
I don’t know, but I WOULD be the one to find out it CAN be done.
All I know is, I went to work, sat in the same spot for 6 hours, and when I got up to leave, I could barely walk.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Update may 31: CRAP my foot hurts.

As a follow up to the post below….

GOOD CLAY (his audition a few years ago, nerdy lil guy)

BAD CLAY (a few days ago, this is his EMO WAX FIGURE “Gay Achin” makeover I guess)

*SHUDDER*

Ya know, I think it’s more than a ton of makeup… I think that boy’s had cosmetic surgery, the nose especially.

If you’re an Idol watcher, then you know that Taylor Hicks won. I didn’t really care if it was him or Catherine McPhee, because my top three picks got voted off before the finale. (Elliot Yamin, Chris Daughtry, and Paris whats-her-name) . I was never rooting for either Taylor or Catherine. Taylor reminded me a bit of a retard, and Catherine was just another pretty-girl-great-singer, which we have enough of. So who won tonight made no difference to me.

I did enjoy the suprise Prince performance.

What really made my jaw drop in awe was Clay Aiken’s surprise performance. Not the good kind of awe. The kind of awe that you have when you see a horribly sickening car accident but you just can’t pull your eyes away. More on that when new pictures of him become available online.

I saw it yesterday, but this isn’t a movie review. Although, I will say that it was too long and I was bored at times, and all the best parts were in the previews. This is about the protesters that were outside the movie theater. Catholics, I believe.

When we got to the theater and drove past them, a few of them were wearing priest and monk clothes. Sara said, “Did you see the midget in the priest gown?” I said, “That wasn’t a midget, it was a priest on his knees.” We argued about it until we got inside, and decided to have a better look on the way out. On the way out, the same guy was now standing up, but he was still shorter than Sara, so we were kinda both right.

The second time we passed them, we noticed some little kids out there holding up their signs and shouting “Fiction is still blasphemy!” Awwww come on now, that just ain’t right! You make your kids stand out there on a hot day, wasting their Saturday afternoon to yell at cars a word that they probably don’t even know the meaning of… but I’m willing to bet that when you get home you’ll think nothing of them putting in a Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings dvd.

All this over a movie they’ve never seen, too, I bet. They should see the movie so they’ll know what they’re protesting. All through the movie they let the viewers know that it was simply a theory. Even Tom Hanks scoffed at the theory.

You know what really pisses me off though? I didn’t have a camera with me. movies free deepthroatmovie hilton paris blowjobfree movies devine avadownload free movie gaydeepthroat free moviesnaked movie scenessex free downloads moviesmovies jizz Map

We’re so lucky here in Arkansas. As if the Clinton Library wasn’t enough, we now have the Clinton School of Public Service. Hmmmmm. I wonder if they offer a blow-job class. I wonder if I could get a job…

I know, I am REALLY late on this…. JJ alerted me to this post on The Churning on March 29.
If you’re a regular reader of The Churning, then you’ve already seen this. But in case you’re not, I’m giving you the link.

I had my coupon blog hosted at Cpanel Solutions. I’ve had some problems with them in the past, but this last one takes the cake. A couple of days ago I was working on the site, adding some content, changing some things, and all was well that morning. Then that afternoon I tried to go back to it and I thought it was down because I couldn’t connect to it, couldn’t login to the cpanel, and couldn’t receive the email for that site. I waited thinking it would come back up. When it didnt show back up by the next morning, I sent in a ticket reporting the problem. This is some of the correspondence:

Message By: Melody Ralls
When: 2006-03-20 17:09:58
Message (below):

My site is down, my email won’t work, I also can’t get to the cpanel to try repairing the database. What’s going on? It’s been down since yesterday.

Message By: Anne Kriz
When: 2006-03-20 17:11:19
Message (below):
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(Message 1) It has never been down since yesterday.
http://percentsavings.com/
It’s working. Please contact your ISP

(Message 2, came one minute later): For example I can see
Get The Vintage Ruby Ring for only $32 with coupon code AFRUBY32. Expires 04/13/2006

(Message 3 came another one minute or less later, i haven’t even had time to reply to the first): Do not jump into any conclusion too quickly. Please try it on another computer with a different ISP to test it.

OK, so I thought, well that’s strange, they can see it and I can’t. I then asked both Rich and Diane to go look, and they could both see it. Only I couldn’t. I also called my ISP… they too could see it and said the problem wasn’t on their end. So I added a message to the ticket thread:

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Message By: Melody Ralls
When: 2006-03-20 18:22:13
Message (below):
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Hi,

I talked to my ISP, they say that its not them and that they also can see the site. I don’t know what else to do.

And got back this:

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Message By: Team Lead
When: 2006-03-20 18:25:51
Message (below):
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Great! I am glad you can trust us now.

The other 2 possiblities
1. A company firewall
2. A firewall triggered by a virus on your PC. A proxy setup to block your favourite domains.

Glad I can trust them now? What the hell is that supposed to mean? What makes them think I didn’t? Although I must admit that by this point, I was beginning to wonder about them.

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Message By: Melody Ralls
When: 2006-03-20 18:49:41
Message (below):
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1. I’ve always trusted you.

2. I’m on my home computer, I was working on the site from this computer yesterday morning, suddenly yesterday afternoon neither the site nor the cpanel would come up for me, and also can’t receive any percentsavings.com email.

3. I turned off the only firewall i’m running and still can’t access it. I just ran both Norton and AVG anti virus, even though they run automatically every morning, and still can’t access it. I also ran xoftspy, still no go.

I really am at a loss here. I can access any other site except this one, the one hosted by you.

SO at this time, it had been more than 24 hours that I couldn’t view my own site, or log in to the cpanel for it, or receive any email for it. I had been around in circles trying all these retarded things they suggested. Maybe it was a ridiculous conspiracy theory, but I was really starting to think that THEY had blocked my IP from seeing my own site. It seemed to me that every time I added to the ticket, their reply came IMMEDIATELY, and there was no way they had time to really check anything.

On that last message, I waited quite a long time for them to reply back to me, and they never did, So I sent this:

Message By: Melody Ralls
When: 2006-03-20 21:59:43
Message (below):
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No replies to my last message?

And received back this:

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Message By: Team Lead
When: 2006-03-20 22:16:29
Message (below):
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Sorry, the message was not related to server operations.

I think you need to have your computer check or borrow a computer until it resolved.

I quickly moved my site to where all my other sites are hosted, and what do you know? I can see everything, although I still had to move the database, etc… thanks to rich for logging into my account and getting it for me. Funny isn’t it? A “virus” was keeping me from seeing it when it was hosted by one place, but not by another? YEAH RIGHT.

So here are the last messages, one from me, and their reply:

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Message By: Melody Ralls
When: 2006-03-22 02:24:49
Message (below):
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I’ve moved my site to another hosting company, and lo and behold, I can see it perfectly now, and my email works too. Too bad you guys didn’t put a little effort into this. If you had at least tried, I wouldn’t be talking about the “help” your company gave me on all my blogs.

I want my account cancelled immediately.

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Message By: Team Lead
When: 2006-03-22 02:31:12
Message (below):
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We did help, reviewing your account and running test. I guess some people just do not appreciate things.

To cancel.you have to login to your paypal account, and cancel subscription.

Ticket ID: 1248
Email To: melody@finelineweb.com
Date Opened: 2006-03-20 17:07:21
Priority: Urgent, Center Queue 5:12 hours
Category: General
Status: Answered
Open/Closed: Closed
Subject: site down

In my opinion, you should NOT USE THIS HOSTING COMPANY.

Speaking of crappy hosting companies, I also wouldn’t recommend the one that I’m using for all my sites, 1and1.com. Although I’ve never had a site go down in 2 years with them, and they have a lot of great options, both Rich and I have been trying to reach them for 2 or 3 days. Rich just wants a simple question answered and has sent them two emails with no reply. I just had a question about my billing, and they never replied to my email either. I called them too, and was left on hold for 25 minutes. Bad service! I also had a hell of a time moving my coupon blog database over.

I also need to move a site for one of my clients, and I’m looking around. I called bluehost to ask a question about shopping carts, and I was talking to a human in less than a minute. Hmmmm, might go with them.