The movers rang back today and delighted us in saying that they were going to be able to move our UK stuff in tomorrow – we weren’t expecting it for at least another week. Unfortunately we don’t have any furniture ready for them although we did get our bed and a christmas tree installed today. – Tomorrow night it will be home sweet home!
After getting spam from one company – about 10 a day from different get rich quick places I received a phone call from another company today. They actually rang me last Friday night just as we were going out so I told them to ring back later and they rang today, in the middle of the working day and spent over 30 minutes waffling on through the script. Eventually I said I wasn’t going to purchase over the phone today, despite getting a 40% discount for this call only, free trip cover and a $30 gas card. She went to get her manager (this was just like the car showroom!) who proceeded to try and give me the smooth calming call. After explaining (again) that I wasn’t going to give my credit card details over the phone and I wanted to see the details before signing up, even though they could send me the forms and I could cancel within 30 days, they didn’t get the point. When he started again on the “If I could have your visa card for verification” I hung up on them as they were obviously not getting the point and I didn’t want to waste any more of my time or theirs. They tried to ring me back 2 more times but then I was busy trying to do some real work (which I had been doing whilst they were wittering on in my ear – thank heavens for headsets for phones.
I was surprised to see that there was a Columbus Bloggers group and they held their inaugral meetup last week. I had looked to see if there was a similar group some time ago but had never seen anything organised.
Coupled with the list of free wifi in columbus and I know there are some other places out there, these sites and The Columbus Underground are worth keeping an eye on – I’ve added the RSS feeds to my reader (which is about 1 week behind at the moment)
Don’t Honk at an old lady especially if you drive a sensitive BMW. I think if I had been there when this happened I would have wet myself laughing!
Ok – NOW Im started to get a bit excited. In 46 minutes time, Kristen and I will start the process of signing our lives away when we close on our house. Now that it is finally here I just hope it all goes smoothly and I don’t get writers cramp.
Fortunately the snow hasn’t been too bad here so I don’t think it will have held up the sellers moving out process as moving contents in the snow can not be much fun – wouldn’t want to slip on the ice and snow. We will make sure that when we move in we pick a day that isn’t freezing cold or snowing or raining. We have the luxury in that we don’t have to move in on a specific day.
Update 2 hours later IT IS OURS AND WE HAVE THE KEYS – WOOHOO (now I’m excited)
Kristen has been hitting the quiz pages and is a mud pie (mmmmmmmmm) so I thought I’d see what I am –
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You Are Apple Pie |
 You’re the perfect combo of comforting and traditional Those who like you crave security |
Almost typically english there….. Now I’m hungry.
For the past couple of days I’ve not been able to read Mike or Angela’s blog with the server returning a “No data” error message. However I was able to read their newsfeeds and post comments. Apparently it could be a caching issue so if you have problems accessing their pages just add ?asd=qasdads (or other random text after the ?) after the url
I tried to import my SBS server from Virtual Server into vmware player as I was fed up with Symantec complaining that the program was trying to tamper with the virus protection. For some reason the import would not work with an error message stating “err -2147213293: The source virtual machine is paused. To convert it, please shut down and close the virtual machine”. It actually turns out that vmware doesn’t like a virtual server name ending in a period. Renaming the file let the import go through ok. I’ve logged a bug about this on the vmware forums but so far I’m impressed.
The vmplayer logfiles are stored in %temp%
Update Just wish I could work out why the server takes forever to get past the Applying Computer Settings when it boots up (in both virtual servers) – I think it is something to do with only using a wifi access card for the internet and it is somehow trying to access dns records or something strange
We purchased a new (to us) car yesterday and so I’ve spent some time looking at warranty/service packages for the car.
Within an hour of passing my details onto CarWarrantyProvider.com I was starting to get spam to the unique email address I provided them. Stay away from this company. I’ve yet to actually receive the information that I requested from them, but I have been offered $1500 deposited in my account because I might receive temporary financial assistance, and all sorts of other naff stuff. Good job I can bounce the email back in control panel 🙂 I guess I should have checked their privacy policy before submitting my information. Hopefully I won’t get bombarded with telephone calls.
Just logged into my gmail account and they now scan for virus’s…This is one more reason to move the rest of my helsby.net emails to gmail. The only issue I have with gmailing my domain is that when I read the mail in thunderbird on the home pc, it doesn’t mark the mail in gmail as read (which I wouldn’t expect it to) but that means that gmail thinks I have loads of unread messages.
Update I’ve now made the switch and all mail that is not addressed directly to Kristen and I now goes via google – that’ll give it some spam to think about 🙂