Rent A Center Frustrations

A couple of months ago someone’s dryer stopped working so I suggested they try to get a new one at the local Rent A Center. At their request I called the place to find out if they had a dryer, and identified myself as a current customer since I thought I recalled that they would [...]

Criticize my writing all you want, but watch what you say about my mom!

I just realized that I have been spending far too long this evening / morning reading over bad writing with the same kind of morbid ‘what the—’ that makes a person stare at something that they really do not want to look at. So, why would I spend so long reading seriously badly misspelled words? [...]

Rebuilding

I’ve had a long series of ups and downs, as anyone that has watched my websites has likely noticed. It has been a nasty battle with depression that has, for far too long, caused me to experience failure after failure in trying to get my work back up to the level that it was in [...]

Bleeping Crackers

Last month I discovered that in the time I have been away from my website, the Crackers located it and… well, they really messed it up on me. Bad enough that Google gasped and told me that I had three days to clean it up, or else. I happened to be in the middle of [...]

eBay Seller Backout After Sale

A few weeks ago I was talking about a paper cutter I won on eBay. Nice paper cutter, the one I needed for my bookbinding work. Seller even said in the text of the listing that they would ship to Alaska and Hawaii. Yay!

I contacted them to find out what additional shipping to Alaska [...]