I have been harassed, cursed at, yelled at, and forced to endure extremely rude calls for about two months now. For a debt I do not owe! Let me start from the beginning. The Situation in a Nutshell An AT&T Debt Collection Agency, Source Receivables Management, has been calling me non-stop for two months from […]
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Ditching My Cable Company
February 16, 2010 
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Goodbye Brighthouse. For years you have been my cable provider, my Internet provider, and my telephone provider. I have been faithfully paying you over $2500.00 a year for these services. I have hundreds of channels, HD packages, two HD DVRs, premium channels, high-speed internet, unlimited national calling, call waiting, and a slew of other features I don’t use. All for the low, low, price of $220.00+ per month.
Continue readingMy Son; the High School Wrestler
January 30, 2010 0 Comments
I’m very proud of my oldest son, Matthew. He has been on the Boone High School wrestling team for two years now. He started in 9th grade, not even understanding the basic concepts of wrestling. It was a sport I never participated in so I couldn’t help him, even if I hadn’t been stricken by […]
Continue readingI am Dad
January 25, 2010 3 Comments
My daughter is upset with me this morning. She somehow had misplaced her favorite jacket and was complaining about not having anything to wear. She was grumpy and in a surly mood. Her mother tried to hand her an alternate jacket and it was rejected ungraciously. Carey then tried to point out to our daughter […]
Continue readingEnduring Love and Faithfulness
January 14, 2010 4 Comments
“…he spoke of a girl of surpassing beauty and faithfulness.” Those words were spoken by the Dread Pirate Roberts in “The Princess Bride.” The scene was where Westley (aka Roberts) had found his Princess Buttercup after 5 years. I watched that movie again last night. At my grandparents’ house. As my grandfather ages, it has […]
Continue readingCaptive Audience
January 3, 2010 0 Comments
You gotta hand it to the airlines – the know they have a captive audience when you fly. We’re all used to the pre-flight checklist the TSA requires the airlines to review with you before each and every flight. We accept them as SOP when we fly. The flight attendants come on over the loudspeaker […]
Continue readingThe Kindness of Strangers
November 14, 2009 0 Comments
It’s not often you meet a really kind stranger; someone who is naturally a nice person and without trying, without fanfare, is just genuinely kind. I met one such person last week. On an airplane. I blogged a few days ago about how poorly United Airlines treated me on my flight from Orlando to DC. […]
Continue readingThe Crap We Learned to Eat
October 7, 2009 1 Comment
I just took a few minutes during my lunch hour to stumble the Internet. I stumbled on a fantastic website filled with advertisements from the 1950’s – the era in which my parents grew up. I was engrossed – I love the innocence of the time. The optimism that was pervasive in every ad made […]
Continue readingRant: Movies, Commercials, and Trailers
September 12, 2009 0 Comments
I went to see “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” last week with my fiance, Carey, and our daughter Ashlee. It was a spur of the moment thing. We were at a nearby jeweler getting her new wedding band serviced and, when we were done, I proposed a movie. The girls wanted to see “The […]
Continue readingSurfing Tropical Storm Danny’s Swells
August 28, 2009 0 Comments
Tropical Storm Danny is turning out to be less dangerous than we feared. Living in Florida, we take hurricanes seriously, but not too seriously. We hear day after day the weathermen warning us about tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes that we quickly get over saturated. Usually they end up to be less severe than […]
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The Binary Biker 