Last night I went with Andrew to buy his Tahoe. The driver of the Tahoe is a Freshman at North Georgia College in Dahlonega (my "alma mater.") After Andrew's test drive, and while Andrew was checking things out mechanically, I had a chance to talk with the driver about North Georgia and how he liked it. He said he liked it VERY much, and then he started to tell me some things:
1) This year was the first year that North Georgia allowed male students to live on campus and not be in the Corps of Cadets. The guys are living in Lewis Annex which posed a question for me, "what about the upperclasswomen? Where are they living?" I know that Owen Hall is on campus now (an AMLI apartment complex on campus with NGC housing rules), but there was always a shortage of housing for woman.
2) In Flag Football, you have to run with your arms outstretched and the ball in your hands. You can't tuck the ball under and run or anything because they say you're "guarding the flags." I guess Flag Football has changed a bit from when we used to play in intramurals: the guys would stop playing to watch our games because we were brutal.
3) Parking: The decals are still permanent adhesive, which makes it a pain in the neck to scrape off if you sell/wreck your car. The freshman said, "why not parking hang tags, duh."
Well, my dear Freshman, I am sorry to say that my class was quite possibly the class that caused these rule changes.
We were too rough in intramurals so much so that Chestatee was always on campus with an ambulance.
You don't have hangtags on your cars because we used to trade out with friends when we wanted better parking or closer parking to classes. Yeah, we ruined that for you.
When I got done talking to the Freshman, I told him he could thank us for the crazy rules now at North Georgia. I'm pretty darn sure my friends and I were the cause of them.
I wonder if they have any rules against Marco Polo on the Drill Field at midnight?
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Bunch of Crap
Andrew called a guy last night that had a Full Size blazer for sale for $3000. He told the guy (who lived in Dahlonega) that he would be up tonight (Tues night) with cash, in hand, to buy it if he wanted it. The guy said that would be fine, etc. and that they did have another offer on it, but it wasn't the asking price of $3000 so if Andrew came up there, cash in hand, it was his.
Andrew just texted me that the Blazer is gone. The guy went ahead and sold it to someone else even though we made firm plans to drive almost 2 hours one way to go and buy the darn thing tonight.
This sucks. The guy never said "First Come, First Serve," he just told Andrew that the Blazer would be waiting for him and to just call him this afternoon to make sure he was home.
Andrew just texted me that the Blazer is gone. The guy went ahead and sold it to someone else even though we made firm plans to drive almost 2 hours one way to go and buy the darn thing tonight.
This sucks. The guy never said "First Come, First Serve," he just told Andrew that the Blazer would be waiting for him and to just call him this afternoon to make sure he was home.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
AT&T Wireless being moved to my sh*t list.
I called AT&T last week about changing my rate plan to one that was less expensive per month. The only people I really call besides my parents are on the AT&T network, so I have hundreds of rollover minutes.
I was told by the operator that I pay "automatic debits." Okay, that's nothing new.
That my cell phone bill dropped on April 8th of this month. Okay.
That I would not be able to change my service plan until April 7th or April 8th before or on the day the bill drops. Okay - sounded dumb to me, but I thought, "okay, I'll wait then."
Today is the 5th of April, and I just got a text message from AT&T telling me that my electronic payment was successful for my bill and that the next bill drops May 9th.
I.....am.....pissed!
To make matters worse, I call AT&T support, and, guess what? They're not open on Sundays. They're only open 7am-9pm during the week and until 6pm on Saturdays ("in your time zone.")
Is this just another way for AT&T to screw us over??? What the Hell?
I was told by the operator that I pay "automatic debits." Okay, that's nothing new.
That my cell phone bill dropped on April 8th of this month. Okay.
That I would not be able to change my service plan until April 7th or April 8th before or on the day the bill drops. Okay - sounded dumb to me, but I thought, "okay, I'll wait then."
Today is the 5th of April, and I just got a text message from AT&T telling me that my electronic payment was successful for my bill and that the next bill drops May 9th.
I.....am.....pissed!
To make matters worse, I call AT&T support, and, guess what? They're not open on Sundays. They're only open 7am-9pm during the week and until 6pm on Saturdays ("in your time zone.")
Is this just another way for AT&T to screw us over??? What the Hell?
Thursday, April 2, 2009
"Wife Wanted"
Posted in the "Items Wanted" section of Craigslist (Atlanta):
wife for organic cooking,gardening, cleaning - $1 (Gwinnett)
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Reply to: sale-d3guj-
Date: 2009-04-02, 12:17PM EDT
Hello &happy thursday,
I am looking for female with a lively sense of humor and irrational optimisim & sense of wonder. My hobbies are consulting engineering, volunteering, hiking, bikinh, teaching & playing tennis.
wife for organic cooking,gardening, cleaning - $1 (Gwinnett)
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Reply to: sale-d3guj-
Date: 2009-04-02, 12:17PM EDT
Hello &happy thursday,
I am looking for female with a lively sense of humor and irrational optimisim & sense of wonder. My hobbies are consulting engineering, volunteering, hiking, bikinh, teaching & playing tennis.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Mutant Chronicles
Andrew and I watched this the other night. It doesn't come into theatres until April 24th. Overall, if you like Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Comic type movies, you might like this one.
After The Ice Age, "something" dropped from space onto the Earth. It created a "machine" that was set to transform humans into mutants. The machine was defeated in the middle ages, and a seal was placed over the opening in the Earth.
Fast forward to 2707. The world is now controlled by four corporations (not countries). We have almost depleted our resources. Two corporations are fighting in trench warfare using technology and tactics similar to WWI (with some minor additions ;) ). The seal is broken during the war, and the machine starts up again (I don't know where the mutants came from that broke out of the seal though - they stayed down there that long??)
A holy man enlists the assistance of others for a suicide mission to destroy the machine.
I won't go into any more details, but it's an okay movie. I wouldn't spent $10/ea to go see it in theatres. If you have XBox Live, you can download it :)
After The Ice Age, "something" dropped from space onto the Earth. It created a "machine" that was set to transform humans into mutants. The machine was defeated in the middle ages, and a seal was placed over the opening in the Earth.
Fast forward to 2707. The world is now controlled by four corporations (not countries). We have almost depleted our resources. Two corporations are fighting in trench warfare using technology and tactics similar to WWI (with some minor additions ;) ). The seal is broken during the war, and the machine starts up again (I don't know where the mutants came from that broke out of the seal though - they stayed down there that long??)
A holy man enlists the assistance of others for a suicide mission to destroy the machine.
I won't go into any more details, but it's an okay movie. I wouldn't spent $10/ea to go see it in theatres. If you have XBox Live, you can download it :)
Dear Brandie/Nicole Carter...
You are a crook, and you are a fraud.
You attempted to sell us a dog that you had already sold to someone else. The photos you sent to us as being "Meeka" were not Meeka at all. You not only lied to us, but you lied so elaborately that it is pathological. The extent you went to selling us your lies is unbelievable.
We've seen the updated photos of "Meeka" owned by the 20 year old girl in South Carolina. We know that the photos you sent us were not of Meeka. I have since taken the liberty of screenshots of all of the photos you have posted publically showing your "K-9 partners" and your "retired K-9 partners" that have never been K-9s - police or otherwise. They were dogs you got for free from people of whom you took advantage.
No wonder you did not reply to my lengthy and fact-ridden e-mail. You were in the wrong, and you knew it.
To the readers of this blog, be careful when dealing with Brandie/Nicole Carter out of South Carolina (Columbia-area) who "owns" Unicorn Valley Shepherds and professes to being a dog trainer. You WILL get screwed.
You attempted to sell us a dog that you had already sold to someone else. The photos you sent to us as being "Meeka" were not Meeka at all. You not only lied to us, but you lied so elaborately that it is pathological. The extent you went to selling us your lies is unbelievable.
We've seen the updated photos of "Meeka" owned by the 20 year old girl in South Carolina. We know that the photos you sent us were not of Meeka. I have since taken the liberty of screenshots of all of the photos you have posted publically showing your "K-9 partners" and your "retired K-9 partners" that have never been K-9s - police or otherwise. They were dogs you got for free from people of whom you took advantage.
No wonder you did not reply to my lengthy and fact-ridden e-mail. You were in the wrong, and you knew it.
To the readers of this blog, be careful when dealing with Brandie/Nicole Carter out of South Carolina (Columbia-area) who "owns" Unicorn Valley Shepherds and professes to being a dog trainer. You WILL get screwed.
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