TTC Fare Hike

The TTC is raising its fare again, and thus far, the only change I’ve spotted is one of its drivers sitting in a little cage. I went to say hello to him, and then wasn’t quite sure how to engage this poor caged animal in conversation. Either a bank teller or a lion, one or the other is driving this bus, but neither was able to talk to me through the pin holes poked in the plastic surrounding his seat. How absurd. Is this what my extra quarter is paying for?

Donuts

Why does a Chocolate Dip donut cost the same as a Boston Cream? A Chocolate Dip is nothing but a Boston Cream with a hole in the middle and no lovely little custard filling. Basically, your eighty-nine cent Chocolate Dip is like the dumb little brother who just tagged along for the ride, but no one really wanted him to come, but mum said he had to, so we brought him to the movies even though everyone actually just wanted to hang out with the way cooler, way older Boston Cream.

Moblogging!

I’ve figured out how to make WordPress work from my cellphone! At this point, I have yet to really get into it- this being my first post and all, but there are a lot of possibilities here.

The Internet Is Back!

The regular cable-through-the-wall-type internet has found its way back into the house, and it’s quite lovely being connected to the outside world by means other than  radio and several televisions with coathangers jammed into their backs! I had unlimited internet on my Blackberry for six months, and during that time, I had been tethering it to my computer, managing to push nearly 2 gigs worth of data a month through the poor little USB port. I’m on my second handset after having burned out the port on the first one, and now that my unlimited data plan is up no way in hell am I paying to push that kind of data around.

Woo! I’m connected!

Just in time too, because now that I’m on my second Blackberry… the USB port has a physically bent prong. These stupid little handsets aren’t built very well. I don’t treat the thing badly. I put it in my purse, and yes, maybe it goes in there with my house keys and wallet, but that is normal. Whatever. Within three to five business days, I’ll have my third Blackberry in my hands. Yay for warranties! Yay for internet!

Left to Right: Battery won't hold a charge for anything longer than 5 minutes, Cracked the screen about two months after I bought it, Jon's trusty Nokia that I keep returning to whenever I break a phone I'm currently using (thanks), Usb port has a bent prong and I need this phone replaced.

Yay, Bots

At first I thought my Blackberry was going haywire (again), because from the other room I could hear it continually beeping, and I was beginning to get upset, because I did NOT want to go through the trials and tribulations of Rogers customer ’service’ again to get it replaced.

The little tone that plays when I get an email is about 1 second long, and sounds like a doorbell. My phone was in my office, and from my kitchen, it sounded like there was a very impatient postman leaning on the doorbell, waiting to deliver a package, or a little kid wanting to know if his friend could come out to play. I was convinced my phone was dying. I was hoping that I was just incredibly popular, and that suddenly my friends had all decided to email me all at the same time.

I have 56 emails from an un-manned UPS device. Lovely. Good news? My phone is not broken. Bad news? I’m not as popular as I could have hoped.

The Smashing Pumpkins Have Reunited

If you have the opportunity, do make sure to watch the interview with the only two relevant members of The Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin have sat down and talked with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC’s The Hour. They have re-united as The Smashing Pumpkins, having decided that two out of four ain’t bad, especially when said two did ninety nine percent of the work.

I am currently blogging from my phone, so I can’t read CBC’s weekly grid properly, so I don’t know when it’s airing again, but it’s a great interview, and worth looking to see when it airs again.

Offline

I will be offline until I either order internet in February, or get my blackberry replaced within the next two weeks.

If you need to contact me, phone me, or send me a text. I’l be putting my SIM card into an old cell, but I won’t have blackberry messenger or any form of internet.My mum kindly lent me her blackberry to use as a battery charger over the holidays, but now my battery is dying again, and I have no way of charging it!

Cheers!

Moblogging x5

The post below this one is formatted terribly, and has been posted five times. While I was trying to post from my Nokia phone, it kept coming up with an unknown error, so I kept hitting ‘publish’ before giving up. Oops.

I am with family for Christmas. My parents have both cable AND internet! Woo! Christmas will be nice.

At least my internet lasts until april…

Rogers has deemed my blackberry defective, and so they are going to send me a new one. They were more than willing to send one to me within five business days, but it would be a pink one.
No way.
I do Not want a stupid pink phone. Black or grey i would have been ok with, but not a pink one. I’m not a Mattel Barbie with an office job and pink accessories. When a red one is in stock, they’ll send it to me. That’s nice. I’m kinda mad because I paid for a warranty that will replace my phone in twenty-four hours, and Rogers is apparently not able to uphold their own terms of sale. I also found out that my unlimited bandwidth goes until the end of March, not the end of December as I originally thought. That too, is nice.

What ISN’T nice is blogging from my old Nokia cell phone. It’s kind of ridiculous, actually.

UPDATE: I had originally posted this five times. I have now deleted the previous four copies of this post, and just left the one intact. I posted this from my Nokia cell phone, and each time that I hit “publish” the phone came back with some sort of error, so I had assumed it didn’t work.

Story of My Life…

Goes something like this:

I get a phone.
I break it.
I get a new one.

I have every phone number I need either memorized or written down in my (analoge!) Day planner. I have the foresight to not keep anything important in my cell, cause the way I go through them, I have to replace them every six months.

Well, it’s back to my old brick of a Nokia while this one gets fixed or replaced. Thank god for ‘idiot warranties’. Basically, if I break it by any means, they replace it. Drop it in a toilet? New phone. Throw it under a bus? New phone. Decide I want to take it apart and lose half the pieces? New phone!!!!

Battery won’t charge, and THAT’s a manufacturer defect. New Phone!