Don’t worry, this’ll all be interesting when I’m dead.

DumbVantage! Amiright, folks?

I’ve always been pretty happy with at&t’s VoIP system called CallVantage (see: Vonage, Comcast Digital Voice). I’ve had it since it first came out back in ‘04 or so. But lately there’s been a few things just not working right. Actual performance issues. But I haven’t ever said anything because I rarely ever use the landline.
But I wrote them an email yesterday in which I totally didn’t mention any service issues and just asked a question about how I’d prefer my voicemails to be sent in mp3 format rather than wav.

My email:

The voicemails are emailed in .wav format.
Can these be offered/emailed as mp3s instead?

If not available now, may I suggest this feature for the future? Switching to mp3 will greatly reduce the file sizes anyway, which would be beneficial to the at&t servers which are storing them.

I received the “We received your email and will get around to it within 48 hrs.” standard form mail. I waited a day. This was the response I just got:

Dear Carl Baldwin:

In response to your bill inquiry, Tracking Number: ##############, requesting information on account: ############, the following information has been obtained:

We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced with your service. Please contact our repair office to resolve your issues. You can reach this office by calling #############.

Thank you for choosing AT&T.

Really? REALLY?
This, along with my actual problems with the service as of late just may cause me to switch to Comcast. At least maybe then I’ll stop getting 3 Comcast junk mailings a week (of which I asked to be taken off that list a year ago, too).

Holy Hell, I finally got it. The Blackberry Bold. Behold.

But don’t get the wrong impression. This has nothing to do with any sort of Blackberry addiction. Nay. This has everything to do with this device teasing and taunting me since, like, May. And I finally am able to own it.

I should start Christmas shopping for others now. Hmmmm…. I really don’t have many to buy for……

After many, many months of delays, my Blackberry Bold has finally arrived in stores but I can’t buy it cuz I already bought the BB Curve at full price to pacify my appetite and I’m still not even eligible for a product discount until December 1st.

So, December 1st I’ll be buying it… and then if you want to buy a near-new BB Curve (red), lemme know and you’ll be placed at the top of my buyers list.

1.  Grandmom’s on the verge…. probably won’t be much longer.  I went to see her today, not that she will remember due to the morphine.
2.  I’ll be going back to work tomorrow.
3.  The alarm clock watch I bought doesn’t work for me.  Will be returning.

4.  Why didn’t anyone tell me I could still register for this election???  Information I received earlier in the year led me to believe if I wasn’t registered for the primaries, I couldn’t vote in the general election.  But I can!  So I filled out my registration form and will be eligible to help vote Barack Obama in.

This stupid election is way too close for comfort and it’s all because people are so blinded by Palin’s American Idol nomination.  Look, it’s America and it’s great that we are all able to become president or vp.  It’s one thing about our country that’s pretty cool.  But just because “ANYBODY” can be it doesn’t entitle any ol’ person to be it.  Come ON!

I mean, let’s erase the gender here and ask yourselves who’d be better suited for this job:  The CEO of a Fortune 500 company or your kid’s elementary school gym teacher?   The District Attorney or the guy who just sliced your cold cuts at the deli? 

Now, I’m not comparing Palin to a high school gym teacher or a deli clerk.  I’m simply saying not EVERYONE should be viewed as someone who should be put in The White House.

By the way, she believes in Creationism.  ‘Nuff said.  But if that wasn’t enough, here are a couple other reminders of how Sarah Palin prefers to think:  Dinosaurs didn’t exist, the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, and if the love of your life gets raped, if Palin had her way, your love would not even have the option to CHOOSE to continue to have that baby or not.  But hey, she’s entitled to her opinion.  If only there was some assurance she wouldn’t (o)press her opinions onto us in the form of laws.  Hmmmm… No, there’s no assurance of that.  Get away from me, crazy lady;  you and your gimpy, old, robotic dad—  errr, I mean running-mate.

AHHH!!!  ‘Bout fucking time, AT&T!
Been waiting for this thing to be released for months now, so I can finally be rid of this monstrousity of a phone running on Windows Mobile.  Yeaukgh!!!!!!!

If I’m gonna cave and pay this much for friggin sunglasses, I damn well better get a pair without flaws in the glass. Now I gotta go exchange these, which I purchased while out of my mind on Sunday.