No more AOL reps in the USA

Well, last friday 8/29/2008 was my last day at America Online. I think Saturday there were a few people working, but they officially do not have any reps in the USA. Hmm I wonder who does the spanish speaking?? I can Imagine some damn rag head in India trying to speak spanish. They do a horrible job trying to speak english I can Imagine how Spanish would come out. OK OK I sound Jaded Huh well duh. I lost my job to them working for shit wages. They should just call It IOL. well AOL has been doing pretty evil things lately like raising their rates from $9.99 to $11.99 and we got tons of complaints that people werent getting notices. I can tell by the call volume that they probably didnt. The worst part is people on the unlimited plans for dial up were being put on the Limited plans and getting overage charges. I'm glad I'm not working there. almost 4 years. I think it's time for a root canal..lol

The happening

I haven't been on for awhile..no excuses just felt lazy. Over the weekend I went to see The Happening with Mark Walberg. This looked just like an awesome movie. It starts out really cool. The scenes of the people killing themselves were hidden a little bit so it wasn't all that gross for the people with weak stomaches. This movie led you to believe there was going to be an awesome ending. But nothing no cool ending just nothing..Yup nothing This movie had some of the worst reviews I have ever seen for a movie. If you want to see it wait for the DVD.

My son goes out to save the world

My son is in school right now in the Air Force at a secret location. (Texas, but i never told you that OK) I thought that is great! he can see the world. Did I mention he's being sent to Dayton, Ohio. Must be a lot of terrorist activity there. I kid I kid. I don't want him getting blown up in Iraq. At least he got a good profession. The pharmacy!. When and if he gets out he can make some serious change with that job.

He seemed a little perplexed, bumbed out or what ever you call it about being sent to Ohio. He said he didn't care where he was sent but I know that's not true. He's young healthy good looking and smart. He has the world at his finger tips. I hope he gets to go to Germany or England or some where cool. He will never admit this, but some day he's going to be married with kids and this will be something he can look at and say hey I went to Europe or where ever and will have stories to tell like I do. I just hope he IM's me or e-mails me once in awhile.

If you're reading this do me a favor

Hey, you're reading this do me a favor. I have this cool thing on my site called NeoEarth. If you scroll down, you'll see a picture of the earth with yellow dots. It tells me where and how many people viewed my blog. Why don't you leave a comment just to say where you live. I got some people back in my home state of Pennsylvania checking it out. Also from Georgia. It says they are from Woodstock Georgia, that's where my best army buddies from. I knew Spec4 Brummit from when I was in Korea in the mid 80's. Unfortunately when I was on a trip to Atlanta, I called his home and his mom answered and informed me he died in an auto accident on New years Eve. He was a great guy!!!!!!!!!
Ok, what I was really going to say was, every area of the country has a home town diner, hamburger joint, deli, or what ever that makes YOUR TOWN SPECIAL. Mine was Isalys in Irwin, PA. It had great shakes, Burgers and the famous Ham Barbecue. So let me know what was so great about your hang out.

Pensylvania to Utah

I am Originally from Irwin, Pa and lived most of my adult life in Harrisburg, Pa. The last 4 years I have lived in Ogden Utah. It's quite a big change. I'm used to rolling hills and a lot of green trees, Fantastic food and many places to go. Well, Utah has it's mountains but , by July most every thing starts to get brown. As for the food...ehh not the greatest. Pennsylvania has it's cheese steaks, Pizza, and it's Isaly's ham barbeque's. Utah is famous for it's green Jello, fry sauce (ketchup and mayo) yuck! I guess, it's because I'm not from here. When I lived in Utah years ago when I met my wife, there was several restaurants I liked, but they are no longer here.
When I lived back east I loved to go to city Island and walk around just like going to point state park in Pittsburgh. We have the dinosaur park near the river (which back east it's a creek). It, however it is not the same. Fortunately I have a couple really good friends I hang out with. The upside to this is I feel the people are friendlier than back east. At least I don't get stabbed in the back every 5 minutes.

I Hate Fords

Have you ever done the same stupid mistakes over and over and over again? My whole life has been nothing but that! I hate fords, but I tend to buy them, but not by choice. I'm stuck with a ford truck that has never ran properly from day one. I think it had a small leaking head gasket which turned into a very large leaking head gasket. It's to the point where it would be a fortune to fix. I'm in a situation where I need a new vehicle but financially I can't afford another vehicle right now. I love Chevy's but used ones where I live are way over priced, even for a beat up car or truck that's ready to die. So, a co-worker is moving to to West Virginia and has to sell his 1986 Ford Bronco 2. I said to him I would buy it, but all I had was $300. I was thinking he would laugh, but he said if I wanted it was mine. Oh wow I thought, if it runs good I'll take it. I checked the engine compression, transmission, etc . other than the body work (some rust and a few other minor things) I thought it was a steal. I did notice it had an oil leak. I looked at it and thought... I can fix that..... F***ing WRONG!!!!
I fixed the same thing on my father in Laws72 Chevy pick up in 6 hours. 4 days later with the Bronco 2 and its worst. It took an entire day just to get every thing off. When I put every thing back on (2 days later. I noticed I had a very small leak from a bolt on the water pump. I tightened it. SNAP!!!! went the bolt. I spent the next day drilling out the end of the bolt stuck in the water pump. Impossible to get to. When I finished drilling out the bolt, I then put a case hardened threader to re thread the hole for the bolt. I then SNAPPED that off. I finally get every thing off. I fix the hole and put the water pump back on. I start the Bronco and now the place that was leaking is now spewing water out faster. I reach under and the bolt is not tightened at all. I tightened the bolt and guess what??!!!!! SNAP!!! the same place where i snapped off the last bolt it snapped off again. guess what?? I'm doing it all over again tomorrow. Will I ever learn? I have worked on all kinds of cars and I do have to say fords are put together so strange. I would like to smack the people who actually design these parts. They are morons!!!!! When I get this fixed I'm selling it for a profit ( I hope) Then I am buying a Chevy!!

My Favorite Blog

If any body has even read my blog, other than the friends I've told about. You Know I write like an idiot. I'm not proud, but I'm honest. Actually when I type I accidentally hit the wrong button and something spews from my printer while I look puzzled at it. The look I give my printer doesn't make it stop. Oh well.....I'll just live with it.
I have a friend/In law that I have admired his writing. Definitely his reviews of movies are top notch and he should be a writer for a major newspaper or magazine. You need to go and read that... here's his blog merlintwizard.blogspot.com check it out you wont be disappointed.

This Is the Game I was complaining about. Gladiatus. The link is http://s3.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=30030 I started a guild with my good friend Vince and Rick, and we all agreed not to pay money to get ahead in the game ,but to play it using out heads and just use the game money or as I call it monopoly money. The bad thing is...good old Rick decided to buy the rubies from the game so you get ahead faster. He is now a level ahead of me when he started a week behind me in the game. He thought it was going to do him good, but just frustrates the heck out of Vince and I.

This is a slow moving game, where pretty much all you do is hit a button to go on a quest and hope your stats are better than your opponent. If you win you get rewarded with new equipment to either upgrade or sell. You can use the money to bid at auction or buy from the store or other players. Its just not that simple. If you buy from another player its usually old out dated crap or if you bid on it, you usually get out bid and you lose your money.. (what a rip off) After level 9 it gets like going from grade school to being a sophomore in high school. All the Juniors and Seniors pick on you before you can advance. I'm still chugging along...wish me well

Stupid Internet Games

I don't know about every one else but my job is very mundane. So to pass the time, I some time play stupid Internet games. In between my calls I take helping wonderful people (gag me), I play games to pass the time, until I get bored and move on. Well, I started playing this game Gladiatus. It starts off fine, where you have to get money to up grade and to up grade you can buy it with the fake gold you make or fighting in an arena with some one you choose, who has lower stats than you do. Every thing is great and wonderful, until ....LEVEL 9. That's where you actually have to give them a credit card to buy stuff to move ahead or if you don't the people who do pay can buy the weapons and defense to over bid you to buy stuff and kick your ass. All I can say is what a bunch of shit. I don't know why they just don't tell you in the beginning .....pay or leave !

Wonderfull Customers

Well, I work for a major Internet company and I get all kinds of strange calls. Today I had a lady call and said shes 67 years old and doesn't know the computer very well. She ask if I could help her with a particular site and how to use it and how much it cost. I said " Sure, whats the name of the site? " She proceeded to tell me she would like to find some friends to talk to her age in the area and would like to know about " Adult friend finders.com" I was a little shocked at her request!!!! I advised her that it was not our site and that I don't think that was what she was looking for ( I didn't think she knew it was a VERY ADULT SITE ) I gave her a few different web sites to try. She told me that she would like to look at the web site. Before I could tell her NO! I heard the echoing click of the mouse. The first thing she said was......"OH MY! I put the phone on mute and laughed hysterically! She said she didn't know it was about THAT!
I have now come to the conclusion that any one purchasing a computer should get a licence just like a drivers licence....jeez. well that was my exciting day. How was yours

First Time Out

Hey this is my first blog Ive ever tried to write...so it will be at about an 8 Th grade level from a being from another planet with a learning disability. Soooo don't correct me I just don't care..lol

A Little bit about me... I like my coffee like my friends....STRONG AND BITTER!!!

Hey I'm not the brightest guy in the world but I just wanted to point out first some of the strange things I have had some people say to me. I think its funny. You might too?!!

Once I was driving along the freeway and the girl I was with looked at sign from the Outlet Stores, and it said " BLIND OUTLET" She of course says....." Wow! I think that's great! Do they put brail on the tags ? " I did't see her much after that.

Well, another one that was funny....wassss The time I bought a used computer that was put together. It was done very poorly. It was before most people had the internet. This was an old 8086 computer with a monocrome sceen. One day I had poor performance and a screen came up and said " your PC is now stoned: great I had (I think the first virus ever written). I finally had to replace the hard drive. A few weeks later my friend came to visit and saw me with the window open next to where I was working next to the computer. She ran over and quickley shut the window. She blurted out " You don't want your computer to get another virus do you!!" She said this with the most conviction. True story!

Well, enough stuff for tonight