Yea, Gun Jumping is a hobby of mine...

Well, er, yes, um, seems I might have jumped the gun a little when I started ranting about Ascent making me pay to return some DVD's due to their mistake.
I recieved an email this morning with the Return Authorisation details this morning and it turns out they've organised a courier to come pick it up at their expense.
I should have know really, I've had nothing but great service from them so it shouldn't have come as a surprise.
Oh well, that's a good start for the day, and on top of that the replacements are supposed to arrive today so that's even better.

Mmmmmm, tastes like chicken...

And it thought it was only KFC that did shit like that!

Constantly paying for other people's mistakes

So I ordered some DVD's from Ascent this morning and expected them to turn up tomorrow. To my surprise, they turned up only a couple of hours later! Excellent I thought! What wonderful service I thought. Then upon opening the box, I find that I have recieved some DVD's, only they're not the ones that I ordered. They not only have a slower write speed, but there's also less of them (100 as opposed to 110).
At this point I'm thinking "ARSE". So I write an e-mail telling them of their mistake.
20min later I recieve a reply, sorry for the inconvenience, we'll send you a Return Authorisation shortly, would you like a refund or the products you actually ordered?
Hmm, let me see, no I've changed my mind I don't need them anymore. Grr. Of course I still want what I ordered.
Only thing is, now I have to send the ones they sent me, back. Do you think they'll be footing the bill for this? Of course not. So now I have to pay the postage to send this box back to them while I STILL wait to recieve the products I ACTUALLY ordered.
OK so they gave me a standard reply with a weak apology, geez, nice.
Personally I don't think that's on, not when it's their mistake, not mine.

Some days it just pays to prepare yourself for dissapointment. If you're expecting it and it never comes, well hey, you're better off than you were.

Tastes like it's right off the grill!

Could be good people



So anyway, feeling a bit lethargic today, wasn't busy over the weekend but didn't get much sleep either so it's a catch 20, tired from not doing much.

So, I watched "Me, You, and everyone we know" yesterday. I knew it was a kind of festival film but to me it was just plain weird. I mean when the hilight of the movie is 2 girls giving a guy head to see which one is better, you know you're in trouble. That and the whole bit about 'poopin back and forth' (don't even ask). I 'spose all in all it was OK but they're calling it this year's 'sideways' which it definately is not.

On the upside, half the DVD's I have for sale on TradeMe have already reached their reserve so there's some easy money coming my way. And another + is that the case I wanted to get for my new pc has just been released in NZ, it's a pretty cool looking HTPC case. Now all I need is the money to pay for it, hopefully If I sell enough of my DVD's I'll be able to afford a new pc, you never know.

Hehe I like this

An elephant never forgets

Well I haven't posted in a while so I thought it was about time. This is all I have for now, will put something meaningful up later.

While on holiday in Kenya and walking through the bush a man comes
across an elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seems distressed so the man approaches very carefully.
He gets down on one knee and inspects the bottom of the elephant's foot only to find a large thorn deeply imbedded.
As carefully and as gently as he can he removes the thorn and the elephant gingerly puts its foot down. The elephant turns to face the man and with a rather stern look on its face, stares at him.
For a good ten minutes the man stands frozen - thinking of nothing else but being trampled.
Eventually the elephant turns and walks away.

For years after the man often remembers and ponders the Events of that day ...

One day the man is walking through the zoo with his son. As they approach the elephant enclosure, one of the elephants turns and walks over to where they are standing at the rail.
It stares at him and the man can't help wondering if this is the same elephant.
The man climbs tentatively over the railing and makes his way into the enclosure.
He walks right up to the elephant and stares back in wonder.

Suddenly the elephant wraps its trunk around one of the man's legs and swings him wildly back and forth along the railing, instantly killing him.

Probably not the same elephant then.