An Update and a Bleg (UPDATED)

I know that the last time that y'all heard from me, I was lamenting my loss from ten years ago. Such is the nature of loss.

My life has changed dramatically since late June. Yes, it is all for the good of the world, too.

Anyhoo, my future and the future of my family is pretty much determined and we require your help to make things start out in the right direction. We are starting a non-profit that is going to center on helping individuals in small towns across this country, among other things. I think that we can all agree that small town folks in this country have been ignored for long enough.

This is where y'all come in. We are not approved just yet, so don't donate a bunch of money, hopefully we will have that distinction very soon. But! We already have someone that is in dire need of help and this cannot wait.

Remember W-A-Y back in July 2014 when the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge blowed up on the webby-nets? Well, there is a disease that is similar to ALS called Childhood Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy and it affects younger boys. We know such a child.

This young boy has gone from a vibrant, active child last December to someone that has lost almost all motor skills, the ability to talk, and is bedridden or wheelchair bound. It was brutally swift and the resources of the family are miniscule to say the least.

They need a good, dependable car and badly. We need your help to make that happen. At the top right of this page, just under my email and RSS feed buttons, is a link to my Pay Pal marked "Donate." Do it.

Send this post to everyone you know and get them to donate. Give five bucks, give a hundred bucks, give a thousand, just give some cash. I will compile a list of all those people who donate and I will put you on my list of folks to spam like crazy once this non-profit gets off the ground for good, too. (<<---This is a joke. Seriously.) Y'all know me. If there is one thing in this world you know about me it is that I always do what I say I am going to do. Make this happen for this kid and his family, please. Oh, and I might bring back College Gameday for a couple of weeks during the end of this season if y'all win at this thing. Hit your knees right now for this boy and his folks, too. Please take the time to comment.

It's Been Ten Years...

...and it is still the same.

Here it is nine years ago.

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As Usual, A Head's Up

Around six years ago, I started this blog as a therapeutic release for a bunch of pent-up emotions and thoughts that I was experiencing from the loss of my beloved wife. It helped muches and bunches, too. It was fun, it was easy to dump a bunch of poison out of my system with the anonymity that blogging offered, and I met a slew of great blogging friends. However, there comes a time in everyone's life where they have to put stuff down and move on.

That time for me is now.

It is not that I do not have plenty more to whine about and it is certainly not about the fact that I am going to withdraw from blogging entirely, but my time doesn't allow me to continue to blog with the veracity that I have in the past and I am not one to do things half-heartedly. Wide-open, 100 miles per hour for me, y'all.

I am still going to check my reader daily and comment on stuff that moves me as I always have, it is just that posting is going to be almost non-existent here. If at all.

Just so you know, in this blog's heyday, we were pulling down five thousand hits and almost sixty comments a day. The conversation with y'all was awesome, too. That made my day every day that it happened. Thank you so much.

Now, on to the rest of my life and I hope that y'all keep e-mailing and calling, too. You folks are wicked awesome!

Paul

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Well, It's Official, I Am Outta Here for a Month!!!

I anticipate looking like this every day for about 30 days, y'all. I deploy tomorrow to the top left of Mississippi and shall work my way back toward the middle. I'll try to keep up with what is going on with y'all and in the world, but who knows? I might meet the chick of my dreams in the Mississippi Delta. If I snag me one of those jewels, I can rest assured that she shall not stray too far from the couch and television, amirite?

I just wish it was a tad warmer!!!

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Catching Up - A Day in the Life

I have come to the conclusion that when stuff goes awry in my life, I need to drop back and simplify the situation. This is pretty easy when you are not entangled with other folks, but it is increasingly hard the more folks you add to the mix.

And adding six point eight BILLION people to the mix makes things really, really difficult. Yes, that is the population of the entire world. Of that population, I actually WANT to associate with about 100 or 200 of them. The rest of those people need to go buy a freaking clue.

No, I do not want to associate with a single, solitary soul that thinks I should pay for their food or shelter. In other words, 90% of the planet.

Then, I can whittle the number of people that actually provide for themselves down by pointing to the fact that a huge number of those folks think that I should help pay for the other 90% to eat and get in out of the elements. Yeah, those that think they can appropriate MY money to others can eat a dick, too.

Remember when I kept saying that Obama was going to resign in June of this year? The vision that I had was that the dumbest human being in the United States was going to resign his office in June. I had no clue that there could ever exist an idiot so sandpoundingly stupid as to eclipse Barry Obama.

I. WAS. WRONG.

In the past two weeks, we have heard non-stop about one of our elected officials exposing his junk online. There is not a single intelligent person on Earth that doesn't think that Anthony Weiner should be dragged out in the public square and beaten with a tire-iron for doing that. There is no other respectable end product for behavior like that, folks. Face it, Weiner's defenders need to face the same end result that he faces. They should be fired, divorced, and ostracized. Where are the folks on the stupid side of the aisle screeching for his HEAD on a pike? Well, they are all covering up their own peccadilloes.

But, I said Obama was going to resign thinking that he was the dumbest politician, soooooo..... I should not be so rigid in my beliefs, y'all. Democrats never fail to lower the IQ barre on a daily basis.

I know that I continually bash the Idiot President at every turn, but when I am wrong about President Dipshit, I do admit it. Barry has finally gotten an accomplishment under his belt for the first time in his miserable failure of a long, long life. He is now in the Top Five Golfingest Presidents in History. And it only took him two and a half years, too! I actually heard on the radio yesterday that Obama has lied about being a 17 handicap as well. If that is true, I will eat the entire solar system. On national television. Wearing a Wonder Woman costume. There is no possible way that Barry Obama is a 17, he is HORRIBLE at golf and there are numerous videos to prove it, too. Maybe they meant a 37? And why would any respectable course allow this muni-hack to even play their course? Holy shit, watching him swing a stick is like watching a chick swing a club for the first time in her life.

Anyhoo, since May 2, the DJIA has lost a whopping 6.3 percent of its value. Mortgage foreclosures continue to increase, with a 13 month inventory of homes for sale. Unemployment is actually hovering around 25%, too. Inflation is continuing to explode as well. My industry will not return to pre-Democrat levels for quite some time. And those idiots on the Left still think that they have something to offer, too. That begs the question, "Why the Hell are architects pretty much all Democrats and 'Progressive' to boot?"

Because they are mostly artists that realize there is no money to made producing artwork. I have no idea why "creative people" actually believe the stupid shit they believe, but there seems to be a pattern developing...

Now, I would choose to associate with Henry Ford one thousand times more than Pablo Picasso. Does anyone wonder why? Well, it is because the inspiration and intelligence of Ford is so far above and beyond that of Picasso that it boggles the mind. Ford was ACTUALLY a creative person, by comparison, Picasso was not. And shocker of all shockers, Picasso was a fucking Communist. Granted, Ford hated Jews, but Picasso was a self-loathing Jew, which to me is much worse.

It is going to get worse the longer normal people and hard-working people keep putting up with the stupidity from the Left, folks. Stupidity like this asinine crap.

And here is the Sunday linkage that you so crave.

William Teach at The Pirate's Cove links me almost every Sunday and I have failed to return the favor in a proper fashion. I'll try to do better in the future.

And Dean at Nonsensible Shoes, now at a self-hosted url, links me too. Man, where are my manners?

Pat Condell on the asshattery of Islam.


Finally, it is Father's Day, today. Hug your Deddy and punch mine in the throat.


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More Stuff that Paul Likes

I posted a bunch of new links to cool stuff at the Paul Mitchell Design Tumblr.

If you want to build something like one of these, give me a shout out and we'll get you hooked up.

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How's Me and Mine - The Linkdump

In my life, when it rains, it freakin' POURS, dude.

Since February, my life has been embroiled in DRAMA. I have no clue what it is about me, but I am a damned drama magnet. I am tired of that, too, so I gathered up my manliness and ditched every piece of the drama. But, I have realized a bunch of stuff about myself in the process.

I still miss Carla. I never did get the chance to apologize to her for all of the shit that I caused in our lives by being a dumbass when I was younger. And I am still paying for that crap, too. Sometimes when the wind is right, I absolutely CRINGE over some of the stuff that I did when I was younger. Yeah, I got scars, but I am wanting to get them patched up now.

So, here is what I did. On Monday, I did everything in my power to get Jules communications back up and running. I had it working, too, until her dumbass brother tried to change some settings and I had to disable remote access to keep him from screwing up my server. That sent me to the freaking moon, not only because she gave the most insane, unstable human in the world access to my server, but that when I sent the original message that those comms were back working, I explicitly stated, "DO NOT SCREW WITH ANYTHING." That lasted a WHOLE hour. Seriously, his brain is so damned dense that refrigerator magnets pelt him in the head as he walks by. Nothing that a really good ass-whupping couldn't cure, but I am DONE with that shit.

So, I shut my whole heart and mind down to it. I went ahead and decided that I would never place any trust in anyone enough to allow them access to my business server. I think that I actually wrote a post about that, HERE. I guess that was my attempt at "Do as I say, not as I do." Trust, it is a big issue with me, sometimes.

Anyhoo, I decided to roll time back to 2003 when things were good. Before Carla was dead. Before I drank myself stupid for three years. When I had goals and my eyes on the ball.

Today, I headed out to take care of all of the business that I have neglected since 2004. I GOT A DRIVER'S LICENSE, AGAIN!!! Not only that, I put my sweetheart truck in the shop and bought that sweet thing a new intake manifold gasket, got her radiator all fixed up again, new thermostat, and the air conditioning fixed, too! I drove around this afternoon until my ears were frozen. No, I am never getting rid of that truck. Carla and I bought that in July of 1998 for my 34th birthday. I love it, too. Best vehicle that I have ever had, I have little hope that I will find another one better.

I still have a few things that I need to do to it, but another big development in Paulland is that I snagged a FEMA contract work to perform SDs. Yeah, I am going to be in the Mississippi Delta for most of the month of June, July, August, and maybe September. If you have never been in the Delta, it shall be HOT. I currently weigh about 160 pounds and anticipate a 25-30 pound loss. I'm looking forward to it, too.

I have some wonderful Mississippi River memories from way back when. I can only hope that the bad times kinda get washed away while I am WORKING!!! I know when Carla died the only thing that really kept me from losing my mind was the work. Ninety hours a week was not a big deal, the other 78 were spent drunk out of my mind. I am never doing that again, though.

Imma get through all this crap and come out on the other side a better, stronger, more determined person. Exactly what everyone HATES about me. And y'all, hit your knees tonight and pray for Jules, she needs it more than even she knows.

Do you know why Obama stutters like Mel Tillis? Because he is a GENIUS?

Obamanomics' Quantitative Easing is a monumental failure.

The best numbers ever for Obamanomics. Remember six years ago when we were telling everyone that Barry Obama was a moron? We told you so.

Better take that greeter job at the Wal*Mart. It ain't looking good for the future.

And if you want to know how stupid the people are that spend federal dollars, this oughta show you. (No, it is NOT about Weiner's wiener.)

But, this is good news for every man's wiener. And you know what? This is good for a man's wiener, too.

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BREAKING!!!

We broke the 2700 post barrier today.

Plus, I do not understand chicks. I am beginning to think that at this late date, I probably won't either.

That is all.

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And then Two Dogs said to The Nation...

There are a couple of folks that immediately shot me an e-mail about the post just below this one. "Dude, are you okay? What the Hell happened?"

When things are good, I'm okay and when things get bad, I'm okay, too.

Just this morning, on my usual coffee call with The Nation, he said something about our economic times that set me the Hell off. It makes no difference what he said, but I certainly responded with a five minute solid diatribe about "Progressive" philosophy and ideology that is destroying our world.

Think about things for a second. Instead of taking graduation rates to determine the quality of education meted out by our public schools, they actually determine the percentage of kids on the "free lunch program" and then add in that qualifier to determine success rate. For instance, if a school has 50% of their kids getting the lunch that other folks pay for, and only have a 50% graduation rate, they are considered EQUAL to the school that has 0% deadbeat kids and a 100% graduation rate. This is comparing apples to interplanetary space travel.

Check it, this photo is of Pripyat, in the Ukraine. It is startlingly similar to Detroit. The city was FOUNDED in 1970 and by 1986 it was uninhabitable because of the failures of Communism and "Progressive" ideology. Oh, plus the screw-ups of the "Progressives" at Chernobyl. Chernobyl, Detroit, same thing. "Progressive" ideology ALWAYS causes cancer. Look at the photos of what the left's ideology has wrought.

It only took sixteen years for "Progressivism" to totally render unlivable the entire area around Pripyat. It took a little longer for Detroit.

Now, even professional bloggers that are "Progressives," are having to change their entire business model because of the ideology that they actually follow. You see, it poisons everything that it touches and those of us that refuse to even consider that the ideology is rotting the world are DOOMED to keep repeating the very same actions.

Even Michelle Malkin uses the word "sacrifice" in the way that "Progressives" do. Again, sacrifice is NOT trading something of value for an equal value, it is giving something of value for something that is worthless. United States military personnel do NOT sacrifice. They give their lives and their PROFITS for values that are much, much greater than their lives. They buy our freedom and liberty with their very blood.

"I am so satisfied with the cause in which I have engaged that my only regret is that I have not more lives than one to offer in its service." Nathan Hale

We currently have an established government that thinks NOTHING of taking the profit from your labor and handing that profit to someone that has NEVER hit a lick at a snake. That, my friends, is EVIL.

The government lies to you about the jobs situation.

The financiers lie to you about what is going to happen when we cut up the credit cards.

The Moonbat President tells you that it is 2008, RIGHT NOW.

The national media told you that President Dipshit is the smartest man ever to occupy the White House.

And finally, everyone tells you that the Great Depression is over because of the tactics put in place by the government that is smarter than you.

Yeah, we all know better.



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Online Lessons Learned This Week

Whew boy, this past week has been a gut full and I have been forcibly taught some damned hard lessons. I'm a good learner, though.

The main thing that cropped up was that when you try to have an online business with many tentacles, NEVER, I mean NEVER, try to tie those things together to "make things easier." Especially if there is another person involved where the relationship can sour, no matter how solid and honest you believe that other person to be. If you are depending on someone else for a part of that business, isolate that part where it can never corrupt the other parts that are unaffected by that other person.

I'm warning you, you do not want to sit up half the night trying to figure out why you are getting weird messages from your server every two seconds. One more time, either you maintain complete, total control, or you are going to get screwed somehow, someway because you have what amounts to ZERO control. Understand, it does not matter WHO this person is, what role they play in your life, and what you think the future holds for that business relationship. When another person is involved, you cannot see inside their head or heart and bad things can blindside you. It is going to end poorly for your online experience if things are not isolated one from another. I learned this the hard way over the past twelve hours.

Luckily, I never lost my business e-mail despite repeated requests from the other part of the server to connect. Ouch. You can only listen to "DROID, DROID, DROID, DROID, DROID" for so long before you damned near lose your mind. I had to take the whole site down that was affected.

Around two AM is when the autoresponder caught up. With two different types of widgets, Blogger and Wordpress, involved, I had to take that down, too. Whatevs, by that time the site was completely offline anyway, so I killed the mailing list and the subsequent e-mails. But, again, "DROID, DROID, DROID, DROID" in the middle of the night is utterly terrifying.

Not to even mention the ongoing fallout with Google Places, Bing Business, Yelp, and other services. Paul made a bad mistake.

Let's recap. When trying to establish an online presence for your business, keep things separate, one arm from another. You'll thank me for that tip, when an appendage gets cut off. This morning, this is what the Posterous conglomerate looks like.

Not only that, I had to take down the business FAILbooks, because of the widgets going crazy. Understand, this whole mess occurred over ONE FREAKING PASSWORD!!! Who knew?

Well, here comes the good news!

I found Lucid Chart for the online construction of flow charts and graphics. Oddly enough, I was looking for this type of stuff for another project to help out my business partner. It works really well, too. I wish I could show you the diagram I made for Barry Obama's decision making process, but I deleted that in my haste to try to wrap things up last night.

Google Docs has added pivot tables this past week, too. This is going to certainly make data presentation easier.

Google has also added Google Advisor to help with financial decisions. I am still wondering how on Earth I am going to do without Google when the Depression starts in earnest at the end of June. I am not looking forward to that, y'all.

Well, that is about it, I got a dump truck load of work to do trying to get a snippet of code outta every site I currently manage. Pray for me...

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My Philosophy in ONE Graphic...

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Happy Ma's Day - It is none of my business...

For some unknown reason, Mother's Day is always really weird for me. My mother always asks me if I called my grandmother and I always want to know why I should call her on Mother's Day, she ain't my Ma!

Then it hits me like my mother's cornbread does to my stomach, like a ton of river slag. It's that collectivist mentality that DEMANDS that the VILLAGE raises a child. Nope, the village taxes the shit outta us, it doesn't raise our children.

In a "Progressive" world, they want us to honor ALL mothers, not just our own. Sorry, that ain't me. Yes, I call my grandmother, because she is my ma's ma, but I do not tip my chapeau (a little French gayness for Ma's Day!) to all the chicks in the grocery store because it is Mother's Day. They did not sit up all night with me because of an ear infection. They did not sit by in horror as I went nutz on the ear doctor because he was a dumbass. (Yes, I was nine years old.) They did not silently weep when my name was added at the very bottom of the high school graduation program because I missed too many days in Mr. Wilson's class and had to write that twenty page paper on "The Uses of the Quadratic Function in Today's Society" in order to graduate. Nope, those chicks in the grocery store were raising someone else.

So, if you are a mother to a child and they do not wish you a "Happy Mother's Day," you are failure and you should be ashamed that you want me to wish you something for being a failure.

Now, let's look at the very FIRST thing that you need to do to break the endless cycle of stupidity that makes you want everyone to wish you a Happy Mother's Day when you did NOT make Swedish meatballs twenty-two days in a row for supper for me. (Yes, this happened and they were burned every, single night, too.)

YOU are responsible for YOUR own life. No one else is. So, if YOU receive Food Stamps or live on federal subsidized housing allowances, YOU are a failure at life. Sorry, that is the way it is. Not only that, YOU will continue to fail at life as long as YOU expect someone else to come through and provide for YOUR life.

The stigma needs to be reattached to the folks that survive on the "kindness" of others. If you delve into The Bible more than just a little bit, you find that Jesus and his followers found hard work to be one of the most admired traits in anyone. If you are curious what The Bible says about Barry Obama and the "Progressive" movement in general, check out Proverbs 14:23, it pretty much says it all about what the idiots on the left believe.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury. Of course, there is much more wisdom in Proverbs 14 and can really, really be mixed up if you do not read all of it together. Basically what Solomon is saying here is that if you are "Progressive," you are an idiot.

Oh, and Happy Mother's Day, Ma. You look great.

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Free Pizza and a Cutting Board Thingy - A Contest from Your MoM

I currently have, in my grubby little dickbeaters, not one, BUT TWO Freschetta pizza cutting boards from which to choose, PLUS! One free Freschetta "Simply Inspired" pizza. Yes, I am GIVING them away. GIVING!!! You can also go to Freschetta's FAILbook page and get a two buck coupon for a "Like."

But Your MoM is GIVING IT AWAY LIKE SHE ALWAYS DOES!!!

Alls you has to duh is to sign up for my mailing list at the top right of my webbynet traffic blog. Those of you that have signed up since Wednesday, April 20th, 2011, do not need to sign up again. But, remember, I closed my last mailing list because I let it get away from me and I did not want to clear up my mess. Sign up if you want a free pizza and a cutting board. You can also e-mail me and I'll sign you up for the mailing list myself, like I do not have enough to do already. You are so lazy.

The contest begins TODAY, Friday April 22, 2011 and runs through the entire month of May. Then I'll get really, really drunk and pick the person with the funniest REAL name as the winnah!!! Or not. Maybe y'all should suggest how we pick the winnah?

But, anyhoo, dude, this pizza looks damned good and the Freschetta people just decided to give a few away and we all get the windfall from that.

Sign up for the mailing list and the free pizza thingy at the top right at the awesome traffic blog.

Disclaimer: If I ever spam you in any way, I'll get the biggest dude that I know to kick me in the nuts on You Tube. Promise.

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Update of the Webbynets and Stuff (Dammit! It's Cold!!!)

Since I have been back in The 'Sip, I have been trying to get caught up on the stuff that I have ignored for the past eight months in The 'Tuck. It is going, but it ain't going well. Making contacts all over again, lining up work that PAYS MONEY, getting back into the swing of things, it all just takes time. Yes, my posting has gone to Hell in a handbasket and my primary focus has been on things that are not really blog related.

But, dammit, it is cold here. I am wearing long pants and socks, a danged fleece jacket, and just turned the heat on. On the last day of MARCH!!! I blame Al Gore.

Anyhoo, since I have never done this ever before FAH REALS, there is a Pay Pal link on the right sidebar that needs for you to use it. It is in the very top widget. If you have one million dollars laying around gathering dust, I know someone that can put that to good use. Trust me. I blame Obama for that, too. This is what is going on in my industry right now. Seriously, do it, I'm not kidding.

Now for the webbynet news.

We added Disqus comments to our business Tumblr. Go check our stuff out and now you can comment, too!

Today is a HUGE HUGE HUGE day at Blogger, too! They have added some SUH-WEET template upgrades that are going to change the appearance of blogs. If you want to see what Your MoM looks like with these new breast implants and sexy clothing, CHECK HER ASS OUT! Dude, she is SMOKING HAWT! (Yes, it just keeps going and going as you scroll down, too. I went all the way back to September of last year that I can tell.)

Check out the new +1 feature on Google Social Search. At some point in the future, we will not even speak to our friends anymore. We'll just click one button and they'll know everything that is going on in our lives and will know where we are. That future day is NOW.

This week in Teh Google Search. Oh, look, they have a new iPhone app, too! That is good for iPhone users because you cannot CALL anybody.

Oh, LOOK! Chrome Bookmarks integrate with Google Search, now.

Here are the Google Apps highlights from last week. That discussion thingy seems like it will be the next Wave. Online collaboration might have a future, I just do not know how soon that will occur, though.

Speaking of online collaboration and other stuff, here is a Google apology for sharing failures with Buzz.

Google Docs is testing a pagination feature. The thing that gets to me about Docs is that "Home" shows all files. Even when you move those files into a "Folder," they still show up on "Home." I kinda like things cleaner than that, personally.

Flickr has added a Share feature that allows you to integrate with FAILbook, Twittah, Blogger, and Wordpress. The only hiccup? You have to have a Yahoo account. Yuck.

And from PMD Affiliates, "How to do Email Marketing Right." These posts are going to be compiled into a traffic e-book that I am putting together. I think that I am going to sell it for nine bucks or so. Any thoughts on that?

Try to remember to hits that Pay Pal and maybe click some ads. Deddy needs some cheese, please.

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The Comcast Update - An Ongoing Series (UPDATED!!!)

UPDATE: This post is the first item on the second page of Google Blog Search immediately upon publication. Wow!

Well, just to fill y'all in on the ongoing wunnerFAIL service being delivered from Comcast...

And a...Part 1, and a...Part 2, and a...Part 3...

In case you don't get this picture, I originally placed an order for "highspeed" wireless internet access with Comcast on March 2, 2011. The modem was installed on March 4, 2011. Today is March 26, 2011 and I still do not actually have internet service at my home.

BUT!!! I received the SECOND bill for service today. Not the FIRST, mind you, the SECOND. I have received TWO bills in 24 days since I signed up for service. Ignore the fact that I paid them seventy dollars ($70.00) CASH when they installed the modem, allegedly for my first month and the installation charge.

After I received the first bill, I gave Comcast a call and let them have what minute part of my mind that I could spare. They finally assured me (after talking to five people over two days) that I would not receive a bill until I had the router that is required to complete my connection.

They LIED.

I opened today's received bill on my short walk from the mailbox and when I saw that it was indeed a bill, I deposited it in the trash receptacle on my carport. The fun part? Even if I never pay the bill and service is "disconnected," I would never know because I do not have the router necessary to use their service yet.

In the defense of Comcast, however, they did tell me that the routers were on backorder until after the first of April. So, I am not sweating it. But, if I receive the router, go to plug it in and my service STILL doesn't work, I am going to LOSE. MY. SHIT.

Yes,I have dealt with large communications corporations in my lifetime. Yes, I have had problems with those corporations in my lifetime. But, NO, I have never experienced anything that remotely compares with this, not even trying to get Verizon to credit me the 700 bucks text overage charges that went on for a solid year. (Verizon doesn't know the difference between 0.007 CENTS v. 0.007 DOLLARS)

Anyhoo, still no internet, YO.

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Things that NEED to be Said - A Never-Ending Series

Dr. Thomas Sowell has a series of articles that he publishes called, "Random Thoughts on a Passing Scene." I guess this post is kinda like that without the smartiness awesome!

* The powers that be at CNN do not understand science, mathematics, history, language, or anything else for that matter.

* There is a right and a wrong in every situation.

* Abortion is WRONG. There is no way to make it right. AT ALL.

* Taking money from people that earn it and giving it to people that do NOTHING to earn ANY money is WRONG. And it is certainly NOT Biblical teaching.

* Barry Obama has set the Being President Barre so low that John Kruk could do a better job.

* Or, G_d forbid, even Hillary Clinton. (She's almost as smart as Krukkie, right?

* It just dawned on me the way to tell if something is right or wrong is to find out what "Progressives" believe and do the exact opposite. They have never been right on a single issue.

* When a "Progressive" makes a declarative statement, just point and laugh.

* Comcast has a tendency to Peter Principle people into supervisory roles.

* Firing dumbasses is better than promoting them out of producing areas of your company. Just saying.

* If you are wondering why the DJIA is UP at this particular point in time, find out how much tax money that has been given to the Wall Street guys by their buddy, Barry Obama.

* Posting really has nothing to do with how much traffic a blog gets. Especially when the blog in question ranks as number one or two on Teh Google for a bunch of different chicks NUDE.

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An Update of the Failure of Comcast to Offer Even BASIC Internet Access (UPDATED!!!)

Update at bottom of post...

This image from FAILBLOG.

Here is the ultimate on FAIL to deliver even a MINOR service.

On March 2, 2011, I called Comcast Cable to have wireless internet installed in my home. WIRELESS internet. Get it, Comcast, WIRELESS.

On Friday, March 4, 2011, the Comcast technicians came to my home, ran a cable to the house, drilled through my brick and interior wall finish, added a junction box on the outside of my home, and installed a cable modem. These guys had their shit in one sock, did not make a mess, were super friendly, and fast.

ONE PROBLEM, COMCAST. They did not have a router to provide the WIRELESS INTERNET. That router was supposed to be shipped to my home within five to seven business days.

Today, my dear friends, is March 14, 2011. Still no router, but guess what showed up?

YEPPERS, THE BILL for a month of internet. Of course, I have already paid Comcast seventy dollars for the installation and the first month of access.

So, I called Comcast. After about half an hour of trying to get through the menu to talk to someone, a very nice customer service representative informed me that since the modem was installed, my internet was working.

Um, WIRELESS INTERNET, COMCAST.

So, since the routers are backordered, and they cannot give me a definitive date for the delivery of said router, the customer service SUPERVISOR said that the only way that I could NOT have to pay for the month of March would be for me to return the modem and they would credit my money. A thirty day refund or some other kinda idiocy.

So, I informed the customer service supervisor that they were going to have to repair my brick and my interior wall where they installed the modem. THAT MORON TOLD ME THAT SHE WOULD HAVE THEM DO THAT.

Holy crap!!! And I believe her!!!

Now, to add insult to injury, they also informed me that for another ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE DOLLARS, I could have a technician come out and hook up a wireless router. A router that I have already PAID for I might add.

Look here, Comcast, this is WIRELESS INTERNET. That means that there are NO WIRES to the computers, get it? No, I will not use a network card to hook up to your modem, no I will not pay for something that I did not receive, and YES, I will tell everyone that will listen, how idiotic this scam is.

For twenty-nine dollars ninety-nine cents ($29.99) a month, you can get NOTHING from Comcast. But, they will come out and drill through your house to install something that is useless, require you to call THROUGH quite possibly the most difficult menu ever devised, and STILL not offer you any satisfaction.

My attorney is headed out here right now to photograph and document the damage done to my house for the installation of NOTHING. Yes, I know that all you had to do was send out the stupid router, which was already on the technician's truck, but you must have wanted to repair some brick and gypsum board instead.

Great business model, Comcast, I am sure that y'all will do very well with that.

So, I guess it is back to AT&T, again. And court to get my brick fixed, too.

YAY!

UPDATE: I sent an e-mail to the address that the last Comcast person left on THIS BLOG POST.

Here's what I sent at 5:08 PM:

I paid seventy dollars for wireless internet on March 4, 2011. I still do not have this service, because I have yet to receive a router. But, I got another bill, today. With no satisfaction from customer service to have a wireless router delivered, I was told that Comcast would have to uninstall the modem just for me to get credited for the month of March on internet service.

I have requested that if that is the case, a technician should repair my brick and interior wall where the installation was performed. I was told this would happen on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Seriously, this is the dumbest thing that I have ever heard. That supervisor should be fired, because she is basically too stupid to be employed outside of the food service industry.

Simply send me the router and credit me for service not delivered during the month of March.

I wrote more at my blog which receives about eighty thousand hits a month HERE. (Link to this post)

I shall remove this post if Comcast offers to correct this problem by sending me the router and crediting the month of March. Otherwise, I fully expect my home to be restored to the condition before the technicians performed the install.

Thanks,
Paul Mitchell

One of Comcast's people responded at 5:30 PM and said:

Paul,

Thank you for reaching out to us and making us aware of your matter. We will review your experience with area leadership and see your concerns are addressed. You can expect a call tomorrow.

Kind Regards,
Person that is NOT a moron working at Comcast...

They actually signed with their name and iPhone number, so, we'll see what happens...

(At the time of the update, there have been over seventy hits on this blog from COMCAST. I hope they think that I am funny...)

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Um, Comcast, We Got a Problem Here...

Here's how the conversation went...

Me: I need to get wireless internet hooked up like right freaking now.

Her: No problem, Mr. Mitchell, I can schedule that right now. Is Friday morning between eight and ten AM good for you?

Me: Perfect, what else do you need?

Her: It shall be seventy dollars, cash or check, when the installers arive.

Me: Cool, see y'all Friday.

Guess what the one thing is that they did not bring to hook up my wireless internet?

You guessed it, a router. That is being mailed to me. Probably Monday or Tuesday. So, now I am lying on a hardwood floor because the network cable they left with me is a full six inches long and the modem has a whopping eighteen inch cable attached to it.

So, we got off on the wrong foot, Comcast.

By the way, I am really liking the Disqus comments and yes, I know that I am the only one, too. It could be worse, they could be the FAILbook comments.

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Drive-by Blogging - Back in The 'Sip

Been back in town for a week and things are shaping up to normal again. Sorry for the lack of posting, but stealing https access in my neighborhood is tough and Droid tethering doesn't support it without a monthly charge.

I'll have full access to internet tomorrow and I'll be back, y'all.

Oh, I am abandoning my current FAILbook account and moving all my posts to a new place (no politics), if you want in, just send me a link to your FAILbook or the e-mail that you signed up with and I'll add you at the new place. I'm not adding anyone that doesn't want in.

See y'all tomorrow.

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Drive-By Blogging - An Update

Sorry, folks, this past week has been a doozy. I have no clue how I will ever catch up on anything, so I am thinking about just clearing out the link folders and starting fresh on Monday. I have over 200 links that I wanted to post, but just have not had the time.

I am back in The 'Sip after eight months away and I got to get used to the damned roaches and snakes, again. Plus, the temperature is going down and I had to put socks back on.

Yes, I fucked up my relationship with the perfect girl in Kentucky. Yes, I am a fucking loser moron. No, I am not okay with it and NO! I do not want to talk about it. Offer your condolences in the comments.

Y'all know how I roll.

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