I know, I know, we’re all really glad to have Market Basket back again. It did suck while they were gone, and we were all united in our support of the staff.
It’s just that I sort of wish the millions of imbeciles would have found another place to shop. I went there this afternoon looking for two little things. I was stuck in the insufferable mob of stupid and there was no way to get free without leaving a trail of blood and sweat behind me.
I made it in one piece… this time.
I took the kids to their Dad’s house this morning so that they could catch their rides to school. I was a little surprised by the state of some of the roads. The snow ended yesterday morning, but it still was a little sloppy here and there. Route 93 North seemed to be much icier than I had expected.
I’m working from home today, so I didn’t have to deal with my long commute. My wife, however, has to go to a training in Boston today. She left the house at 6:30am. She called me at 8:00 and she’d only made it about half way, if that. As of 8:15 she still wasn’t even remotely close.
Why?
Is this a case of the state dropping the ball on cleaning up the highways, or is it just an example of a phenomenon that occurs each year where most drivers react to the first snowfall of the year by completely forgetting how to drive in the snow. I would guess that it’s a combination, but frankly the snow fell yesterday and both things should have been cleared up by today.
Hang in there, my love. Be safe. I love you!
We have a Play Station 3. In our house it is about 90% blu ray player and 10% game console. Tonight it has been 100% frustrating.
There is a movie that my stunning wife wants to watch. FiOS on demand doesn’t have it. Netflix doesn’t have it. Apple TV doesn’t have it. Amazon’s video rental service does. Jen was looking for a way to view the rented flick on the TV instead of on the computer. It turns out that Amazon will stream to a PS3 app. Nice.
In order to get the app we had to take a system update. After that we had to install the app. Then we needed to take an update to the app. All of that is annoying, but we haven’t reached the real annoying part yet.
After the app update installed we were prompted to sign in to the Play Station network. Ummm.. None of us actually use the network. We haven’t had to sign in since like 2008. Jen tried to guess the password with no success. I tried too, no dice. The only screen we could get to only allowed signing in, it did not give the option to create a new account, and it did not give the option to go back to the home screen and do something else.
Jen in her usual genius turned to Google and learned that we needed to call customer service to get the password reset. Ummm… Okay. Jen called and spent a long time on hold. Once she got a service rep she was told she needed to give them our unit’s serial number and then they would mail us a reset. Mail… Not email, mail. It would take 3-5 business days.
She hung up.
So, internets, my question to you is, is there a better way?
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