Virgin Mobile and PayPal – The Art of Redundancy
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I need to top up my Virgin Mobile phone.
I don't have the cash on hand to purchase a top-up card. I never do because I'm broke. On the other hand, I do have the money in my PayPal account, which they accept as a form of payment! What luck!
Yeah, right. Is it ever that simple?
I have a couple pay-on-line options. I could either add my credit/debit card (neither of which I have) or use PayPal. Sounds like a no-brainer for this semi-geek.
*Loud buzzer sound goes here*
I tried to add my PayPal account to my Virgin Mobile account, only to be told that to continue I must add my credit or debit card to my PayPal account, again, neither of which I have.
What's up with this? I have $0.28 on my phone account, and since I haven't topped up this month, it's costing me 18 cents per minute (even though I still have minutes, but since I haven't given them their monthly tithe, my account it doth sucketh). And now, I have no way to add cash.
Normally it wouldn't be a big deal, except I have given all of my perspective employers that phone number. Oh, and I don't have a land line.
What's the point of offering an alternative payment method if you are required to do the things you don't want to do anyway? It just seems a bit stupid to me.
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Martha Stewart’s Holiday To-Do List
from simplify christmas:
December 1Blanch carcass from Thanksgiving turkey. Spray paint gold, turn upside down and use as a sleigh to hold Christmas cards.
December 2
Christmas season kickoff party with King’s College Boy’s Choir.December 3
Using candlewick and hand-gilded miniature pine cones, fashion a
cat-o-nine-tails. Flog gardener.December 4
Bake a pallet of festive cinammon rolls.
December 5
Get new eyeglasses. Grind lenses myself with jeweler’s rouge and cornmeal.
December 6
Fax family Christmas newsletter to Pulitzer committee for consideration.December 7
Send Christmas cards to sisters in prison.December 10
Align carpets to adjust for curvature of Earth.December 11
Lay Faberge egg.December 12
Take dog apart. Disinfect. Reassemble.December 13
Collect dentures. They make excellent pastry cutters, particularly for decorative pie crusts.December 14
Install plumbing in gingerbread house.December 15
Replace air in mini-van tires with Glade “Holiday Scents” in case tires are shot out at mall.December 17
Child proof the Christmas tree with garland of razor wire.December 19
Adjust legs of chairs so each Christmas dinner guest will be the same height when sitting at his or her assigned seat.December 20
Dip sheep and cows in egg whites and roll in confectioner’s sugar to add a festive sparkle to the pasture. It’s a good thing.December 21
Drain city reservoir; refill with mulled cider, orange slices and cinnamon sticks.December 22
Float votive candles in toilet tank.December 23
Seed clouds for white Christmas.Christmas Eve
Do my annual good deed. Go to several stores. Be seen engaged in last minute Christmas shopping, thus making many people feel less inadequate than they really are.Christmas Day
Bear son. Swaddle. Lay in color-coordinated manger scented with homemade potpourri.December 26
Organize spice racks by genus and phylum.December 27
Build snowman in exact likeness of God.December 28
Home facelift.December 29
Power-nap.
December 30
Call Secretary of Agriculture about advanced farm report for 2008.December 31
New Year’s Eve! Give staff their resolutions. Call a friend in each time zone of the world as the clock strikes midnight in that country.New Year’s Day
Prepare sumptuous brunch for the President and Mrs. Bush.
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Owned…at the Democratic National Convention!!!
I was sitting at home one day, thinking how much I hated Hillary Clinton. I was also thinking how fun those "I'm with stupid" shirts were. So naturally, I felt the two should be combined. Let the chaos commence!
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English Things…
photo by Darcy Johnson
Sometimes if you move too fast things can appear to be something that they are not.
Today, I was positive that I saw a sign that said 'Amish Tanning'. I was thinking...the Amish don't tan...except perhaps their hands and forearms. What would an Amish tanning salon be like? You go in, pay your cash to put on a t-shirt and some capri pants and sit next to a campfire, covering your exposed forearms and lower leg in all-natural butter?
After a second glance, the sign said 'Airbrush Tanning'. Too bad...I thought maybe they were on to something for a moment.
I saw another sign on a Taco place. The name of the store was, well, poorly chosen.
I'm sure the person that started the restaurant was named 'Dumas', but I wonder if he/she had ever considered exactly what they would have gained by naming their store simply 'Dumas Taco' rather than adding the apostrophe and an extra 'S'.
'Dumas's Taco'. Wonderful. No kidding, that's the name of the place. I promise I'm not being vulgar...that's EXACTLY what it's called. It's over near Magnolia, TX. Seriously.
They make us study the English language for 12 years in school, and we still don't get it. Not to say I'm perfect, but wow, I'm amazed at some of the things I see on the road.
And don't get me started on the engrish in stores we deliver to...
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Frustration
This morning, at 2 A.M., the time changed. It seems the news reports forgot to update their clocks, because it's wrong at the bottom of the TV screen.
I've been discussing evolution and religion with a dude via email. He's not getting it. He just keeps saying that religion is bad. He thinks that just because I'm religious means that I subscribe to everything that the catholic church, television evangelists, and anybody that claims to be a preacher has to say. No matter how many times I say this, he refuses to hear it.
It's sad, but frankly, I'm sick of discussing it with him. He's so bent on changing what I believe, using the bible out of context to make me question it, and ridiculing me for not believing in evolution. I just want to give up.
It's not that I don't care. It's that I just get tired of fighting against circular logic with no real scientific proof (other than what they have made up), telling me that no matter what I say I am wrong.
What is it with atheists? I have never, NEVER, met an atheist with a REAL argument that doesn't revert to asking question after question, pretending that they aren't getting answers (even when they are), and eventually just tell us how foolish we are to not accept what they believe.
I haven't said he was foolish at all. I've been going out of my way for a long time fighting an argument that he initiated, all because of some posts I made on a political website.
Well, whatever. I'm sick of it all.
I don't mind answering questions about my faith and beliefs, but when I say I'm not affiliated with certain religious groups, quit throwing their rhetoric and lies at me in an effort to get me to feel stupid. If I don't believe in it, don't assume that I do.
I need more coffee. This low-octane stuff just isn't cutting it this morning.
In other news, I broke our main computer. Actually, Bill Gates broke it. For some reason, it refused to reboot (or even give a display) after installing the Bonus Pack for Windows Media Player. I had to throw together another machine, install XP pro on it, and configure everything. Fun stuff.
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