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FREEKING COMCAST !

I made an appointment to transfer service to the new apartment. They were scheduled to arrive between 8 and 12.

They turned up at the apartment at 9:15, couldn’t get in because it’s keyed entry so they phoned me on my home number.

That’s my home number. The home I’m not living at.
The number that I don’t use any more because I’m not living there.
The fscking number that wouldn’t be in service because I”M NOT THERE.
That would also the be the number that we have Comcast voicemail for. The voicemail service with a bug in the Comcast provisioning server so that once you tell them you’re transitioning, the system thinks you don’t have phone service which means you can’t use their FSCKING online service to listen to your voicemails.
The only way to listen to them is to hit *99 from your phone.
You know, the FSCKING phone that you don’t FSCKING have because you don’t FSCKING live there.

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They’re coming on Sunday between 10 and 12.

Just needed to share the fact that I received a Nigerian 419 offering me money from a 419 compensation fund. Full text below. Sorry, I’m full up with modalities:

SCAMMED VICTIM/$2,000,000.00 BENEFICIARIES.REF/PAYMENTS CODE :06654 $2,000,000.00.

ATTENTION SIR/MADAM,

OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL/UNITED NATIONS 2006 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS .

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United
Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $2,000,000.00
(TWO MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.
You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims
to be paid this amount , get back to us as soon as possible for the
Immediate payments of your $2,000,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the
last U.N. meetings held at Abuja , Nigeria , it was alarmed so much by the
world in the meetings on the loose of funds by various individuals to the
Nigerian scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.
In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the
Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims of these operators
$2,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the
Payments are to be supervised by the 'United Nations' Officials and the
Central Bank of Nigeria, as the corresponding paying bank is OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL.
According to the number of applicants at hand, 114
Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United
States, we still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of
$2,000,000.00 each .Your particulars was mentioned by one of the
Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations,
You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him
For any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service
is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they
are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit
Their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of this payment
Options you may Choose, DRAFT / CHEQUE PAYMENTS, ATM CARD PAYMENT or WIRE TRANSFERS.

We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as
We hear from you.  Please send your reply to our email address: ingbnk-customerservice@live.nl 

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Pascal Nwiwu
D/L: 234 70 38677451
SCAMMED VICTIM / REF / PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 $2,000,000.00

Next year, I promise to update this blog with more frequent information.

This year, I’m only going to update it for one more day.

My car finally passed its smog test today after a couple of months of trials and tribulations and misunderstandings which meant I could have had it tested back in October instead of being made out to be a liar by the Department of Consumer Affairs who sold me duff information.

Anyhoo, I can now get my license plate sticker which means I’m good for another year.

What started off as a good day ended in a very sombre mood as we lost one of our guinea pigs, Truffles.

It caught us unaware as she was in good health.

Today was supposed to be a fun day. We bought our Christmas tree and were in the process of decorating it when Rachel noticed that Truffles was lying on her side and not moving. I checked her and it was obvious that she was gone. What was most upsetting was that I know for a fact that she was still alive and in good spirits about 20 minutes previously.

As a dad, this is a hard moment to deal with. Both Rachel and Joanna are old enough to appreciate that we’ve lost a companion and, unlike the rabbits back in 2004, this isn’t something that we were able to shield them from. So, I had to keep a stiff upper lip and do the job of making sure that she left us in a dignified manner.

I know that death is inevitable but it doesn’t make it any easier to explain to your kids when it happens.

RIP Truffles.

Long story short…I changed my account at my hosting provider…too lazy to fix up the problems…finally got around to it today.

It appears that this blog hasn’t been updated since October last year. I’m not sure how that happened. One minute I was starting a new job and the next I am sitting here on a summer’s day with my parents visting.

Stay tuned, gentle reader, as I gather my thoughts and put together a precis of the past 8 months.

This weekend was the (now-)traditional neighbourhood halloween party.
Fresh from my success as Frankenstein last year, I decided to go with a less scary diguise for fear of frightening the little guests like I did last time. And so Fred Flintstone appeared.
This costume came complete with strap-on feet but it was only when I got home that I found out they were both left.It didn’t spoil the overall effect and once more I garnered the respect of my neighbours. At least, I think they were looking at me in awe.
Sunday saw a real gadget-fest for Sam and I. I finally succumbed to the Dark Side and purchased a MacBook Pro from Apple. It is from this very machine that I am typing to you now.
Sam had her dreams realised and is now the proud owner of a Roomba vaccum cleaner. Anyone who doesn’t know about Roombas should head towards www.irobot.com. Knowing that she now doesn’t need to vacuum as much, she’s already planning the other machines that she’d like.
We’ve already come up with the WashingUpba, the Ironingba and the Dustingba.

We’ve managed to keep this under wraps for a while now but at 2:01pm on Saturday 20th October 2007, we welcomed a new addition to the Kelly family.

Yes, it’s true, we have the pitter-patter of tiny feet once more.  Everyone’s excited and we’ve had visitors already cooing.

So, I’d like to introduce you to Truffles and Martini, the guinea pigs.

We wanted to get a dog but our landlords weren’t comfortable with that so we compromised and got some critters.

Truffles is brown/black and Martini is jet black. Their previous owners kept great care of them but had picked up two kittens from a rescue centre and the kittens kept eyeing the critters and licking their lips so something had to go.

The girls are really excited as they were too young to really remember our bunny rabbits and we think they’re at the right age to look after these animals. The good thing is that guinea pigs like to be picked up and cuddled so it’s going to get the girls more comfortable with handling them

Today’s foray into pet care is to clean out their cage. This is something that Sam and I had to do on a regular basis with the rabbits and it’s a skill we’re passing down to our children. Sam wants to get some more play things for them. I was thinking about a plasma TV and table football but she wants climbing frames and a see-saw.

These things have personalities of their own. Truffles is more outgoing. If you make a noise that sounds like a rattling food bag, she’ll stand up on her hind legs with her front paws on the cage and start squeaking. She’s comfortable with sitting in the open.

Martini, on the other hand, is a silent partner. She’s content to sit inside her log but she’s not beyond nipping Truffles in the backside when there’s food to be had. I think some administrative punishment may be called for.

I’ve purchased a hosting service with uk2.net ( the people that manage DNS for me ). They’ve been really good in the past and I don’t see any reason why this won’t continue.

I’ve come off the SFO-IAD flight and made use of Virgin America’s entertainment system. One of the games was an anagram puzzle where they give you a word and you have to make as many words of 3 letters or more as you can. Even taking into account the American/Proper-English spelling confusion, the dictionary that was being used was not as up-to-date as you’d expect in a game like this.

One word I was given was BMOERSB

According to the game, I couldn’t use the word ORBS. I could use ORB and I could have plurals of any other word I wanted but not ORBS.

Ironically, for an American plane, I could have BOMB, BOMBS and BOMBERS.

Go figure.