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Between not a single trick-or-treater knocking on my door, and Yahoo! I’m ready to pack it in. For crying out loud. LOL For more on the trick or treating thing, you can check out Gothic Peach or my LJ. Needless to say, Halloween sucked around here. LOL

As for Yahoo, things have gotten blantantly irritating. Having now obtained far more information from me than I feel was actually necessary, they have decided that in fact, it is not a billing issue, but an engineering issue keeping me from signing up for their premium LaunchCast Plus service and have forwarded my issue to the engineering department. When engineering lets them know what is going on, they’ll email me back. Meanwhile, I’m looking into other venues to get my internet radio, because frankly, I’m past the point of caring whether or not I ever do get that account set up or not.

I have opened up the wrong bag of candy. I opened a bag of mini Chick-O-Sticks and I’m hogging out on them like there’s no tomorrow. I love them and rarely ever see them. So when I saw them while shopping for the Halloween candy, I jumped on them. And to my surprise, my dog likes Lemonheads. I should have guessed though, because he eats Sour Skittles as well.

All right, I need to go work on cleaning my toilet again. Long story, but lets just say it needs it badly and it’s nasty. I’ll tell that story in another post.

It isn’t easy to stay good with your finances when your online banking is telling you that you have the money in your checking account, even after everything clears through to go ahead and order pizza for supper. Even though I know I shouldn’t because that $33 can do me a whole lot better saved for next payday when I won’t have as much for a paycheck because I’ve been sick. But when you ARE sick, and you’re hungry and you don’t want to cook, even microwave cooking, it’s really tempting to do that online ordering thing. *sigh* I’ve got to get away from this. LOL

So…I did some work on my fanlisting collective : Twisted Mayhem. I upgraded my installation of Enthusiast, I approved a member of one of the listings, and I added affiliates to the listings. So that’s done.

I also upgraded my WP installation at The Entertainment Muse. That one was formerly on Blogger, but I decided to move it to one of my domains so I could use WP and gain more control of the blog. I found a cool theme I liked, so that’s what I’m using there right now. I added a review of Willow by VC Andrews as well.

Now I guess I will go park myself on my sofa and start watching the shows recorded on the DVR before they get to the point where they start getting deleted to get more space.

Enough with asking me for info already! I sent all the info they asked me for and suddenly they can’t match the phone numbers I sent them to my account. I checked my account info and sure enough, the phone numbers I sent them in the email are the SAME phone numbers that are listed on my account. So they asked for my billing address. I sent it to them, but also noted, yet again, in my reply that I’ve never gotten far enough in the sign up process to even input billing information, and so it’s possible that the reason they can’t match the info is because I’m not inputting it! You know, it’d be nice if someone with enough brains to actually read what I’m writing to them was checking these emails. Let’s also not forget that I was responded to first by a Mindy but when I replied to her, I was responded to by an Evan. Huh? Hopefully they get this straightened out. Maybe my phone number is the problem? After all, it’s a funky prefix because I got it through my cable company. Maybe they think it’s not a US phone number. Who knows?

I guess I’ll bumble off for a while to find things to do with myself, such as work on some posts for my other blogs, maybe watch some of the stuff that’s hogging space on the DVR, and possibly clean up the apartment some more. I’m not at work because I can’t talk, not because I feel too bad to work. All right…. off I go.

Stupid Yahoo! Ok, come on now. I replied to Yahoo’s request for more info regarding the problem with the LaunchCast Plus sign up. So what did they reply with? Yet another email asking me to provide more information, including things that had already been given to them. This time though, they also wanted a screen shot of the error page, the URL of the error page, the precise date & time (I guess pointing out that this has been going on steadily for THREE DAYS didn’t do any good) I received the error, the precise steps I took that got me the error, and of all things, they wanted the type of credit card, the last 4 digits, and the expiration date. All well and good except I don’t know what they plan to match it to, since I never got that far into the sign up process, and I told them that! So I had to go do the whole thing over again so I could take a screenshot and give them an exact date and time. They said the exact date and time was most important. After I tell you that I’ve gotten this error everytime I try to sign up, no matter WHAT Yahoo! ID I’m using, for the past THREE DAYS, you had damn well better not tell me that this is a temporary glitch, because you’re going to hear a big scream of BS from me, because I know better!

The fact that I currently can’t talk, I got sent home from work because of it, and that they’re saying I should go to the doctor, does not make me happy either. I hate to tell you, I’ve been through this enough times to know, they’ll just say it’s a cold and tell me they can’t do anything about it. Duh. I’ve been down this road before, I’ve sat in the ER, Urgent Care, what have you, and I’ve been told the same thing every time. It’s a cold. There’s nothing we can do. *rolls eyes* Oh well. If I wake up without a voice again tomorrow, I’ll walk my happy butt to the ER, let them mess with me, give me a note, and go hand it off to my TM. Whatever. LOL

I can’t talk to save my life. If I do, it may start out normal, but quickly turns to squeaks, which then turns to whispers. So I’m trying not to talk. Not easy when my job requires that I talk on the phone all the time. Once again, I’ll have to see what my TM (team manager) wants to do with me, as unless he requests it of me, I am not going to go home. I can’t afford to put another occurence on my record. I just can’t. Fortunately, I usually only get a cold like this once a year, and I’ll have the opportunity to do a buy-back for my occurences if I can make it through a couple of months with perfect attendance. But still. I’m sick of not being able to talk without issues.

And let us not forget that my head is pounding and that my landlords STILL haven’t turned the heat on in my building. And if they have, then my furnace isn’t working because I’ve never had any heat coming through it. Or maybe my thermostat isn’t working. One of the two. But I’m leaning towards them not having turned on the heat yet. Last year it was already on at this point, this year, they’re stalling. Grrrrr. I want heat. Being sick is not a good time to not have heat.

I’m trying to think of things to do while I’m waiting for my ride to come get me. I have to leave early today because I have to pay a couple of bills before I go to work. I probably didn’t need to leave quite as early as I am, but we’ll see. And for the record, yes, I do feel like crap. Thank you.

I listen to LaunchCast radio a lot. There are stations on there that I would like to have access to. However, unless I am a Music Unlimited or LaunchCast Plus member, I can’t. It’s not that much per month, and so I figured why not? Besides, I get a free trial and you can’t beat that, right? So I go to sign up. And it tells me that only people in the U.S. and Canada can sign up. Well, Iowa, last I checked, was in the US. So I email customer care with the problem. Fine. I get a response telling me that I didn’t provide enough information and asking me to tell them what type of credit card (mastercard, visa, discover,etc) I was using, etc. I never even got that far. Yet I’m supposed to tell them every step I took up until I got the error, the EXACT error message, plus a bunch of info including my date of birth, my zip code, my yahoo id (which was given to them in the original email btw), and phone number. I’d already given themall of that except phone number, which they shouldn’t need in the first place, and my date of birth, which is on file with Yahoo! If they really wanted to help me, they’d do me a favor and look up that stuff, or have them be required fields on the form you submit. DUH

Yahoo! really needs to get their act together. They’re losing money doing this because if it isn’t resolved soon, I won’t be subscribing.