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Sep. 3rd, 2004 03:24 pmSo, I got my car serviced this morning (and into the afternoon). It cost me quite a bit of money, but hopefully it will let me avoid even greater expenses down the road. It turned out that one of my tires was dry rotted. While I don't know for sure which one it was, if it was the one that the garage put on after I got a flat, that's pretty annoying. I mean, that would be two tire replacements in one month! How wasteful.
I got my cell phone in the mail today. Unfortunately, it came with an unexpected and unwanted partner. Yes, I got TWO phones, instead of just one. I had to call customer service, and was transferred to several different departments. My conversation with the person from Internet sales was pretty irritating. Here's a paraphrase:
"So, you ordered two phones?"
"No, I ordered ONE phone."
"It says here you ordered two."
"No, I ordered one."
"I'm looking at the order right now, and it says you ordered two."
"Well, I certainly only INTENDED to order one."
She decided it must have been some problem with the website interface (I accidentally clicked something twice, or something like that), but this kind of problem seems to be pretty typical of AT&T, so I don't know. It took them forever to remove some extra phone numbers from my account. It doesn't really matter, though, since they're apparently sending me a label to let me send one of them back for free. The two phones were the same kind, but one was new and the other refurbished. I'm going to be keeping the new one.
I also got the Losers' Lounge tribute to XTC today. It's pretty good, but I kind of think most of the songs are too close to the originals. The thing is, I don't think I would have a problem with that if I were actually at a live performance, but it doesn't work so well on CD, because, well, if I wanted to hear versions that sound a lot like the originals, I could always just listen to the originals. I guess it's hard to improve on XTC songs, though. So far, I think my favorite is the version of "Scissor Man" by Robin Goldwasser (wife of John Flansburgh, whom you might know better as one of the guys from They Might Be Giants), mostly for the improvisational bit at the end. I was also amused that Michael LeMonde ended his performance of "My Love Explodes" with the "That is the most obscene abomination of a song!" radio sample that comes after the song on the Dukes of Stratosphear record.
I got my cell phone in the mail today. Unfortunately, it came with an unexpected and unwanted partner. Yes, I got TWO phones, instead of just one. I had to call customer service, and was transferred to several different departments. My conversation with the person from Internet sales was pretty irritating. Here's a paraphrase:
"So, you ordered two phones?"
"No, I ordered ONE phone."
"It says here you ordered two."
"No, I ordered one."
"I'm looking at the order right now, and it says you ordered two."
"Well, I certainly only INTENDED to order one."
She decided it must have been some problem with the website interface (I accidentally clicked something twice, or something like that), but this kind of problem seems to be pretty typical of AT&T, so I don't know. It took them forever to remove some extra phone numbers from my account. It doesn't really matter, though, since they're apparently sending me a label to let me send one of them back for free. The two phones were the same kind, but one was new and the other refurbished. I'm going to be keeping the new one.
I also got the Losers' Lounge tribute to XTC today. It's pretty good, but I kind of think most of the songs are too close to the originals. The thing is, I don't think I would have a problem with that if I were actually at a live performance, but it doesn't work so well on CD, because, well, if I wanted to hear versions that sound a lot like the originals, I could always just listen to the originals. I guess it's hard to improve on XTC songs, though. So far, I think my favorite is the version of "Scissor Man" by Robin Goldwasser (wife of John Flansburgh, whom you might know better as one of the guys from They Might Be Giants), mostly for the improvisational bit at the end. I was also amused that Michael LeMonde ended his performance of "My Love Explodes" with the "That is the most obscene abomination of a song!" radio sample that comes after the song on the Dukes of Stratosphear record.
