Qwest Sucks!!

I am just going to allow myself a moment to rant. The telephone company (land line) that I was going to sign up with when I moved to the condo is called Qwest. They have spent millions of dollars trying to advertise about how great their customer service is. In fact, their motto is... "What's going on here? It's our Qwest spirit of service in action." I started to sign up with them back in April, but after reviewing their calling plans I decided just to stick with having a cell phone only.

I cancelled the order before I had even really placed it.

For the last two and half months, they have been sending me bills, past due notices and threats of collection agency intervention. For $25.98 of unpaid charges... which I never used. I have never actually had phone service with these people! Each time I got a notice, I called them and re-explained the whole story over again. A conservative estimate is that I have spent over an hour of time on the phone with these bastards. And, they just sent me a "final notice" today. AGAIN!! After assuring me the last time that I called that it was all taken care of, and they were sorry for any inconvenience, blah, blah, blah.

So, in two words, Qwest sucks. And I hate them.

On a lighter note, however, I joined the Multnomah County Library today. I signed up for holds on about twenty books. Mom, just so you know, "The Da Vinci Code" was one of them. So I will finally get to read it! Woo hoo!! I got a few interesting things. Franz is talking about visiting Canada in August, so I got some audio tapes on how to speak French. I got two travelling books about Montreal and Quebec. I got Hillary Clinton's autobiography. I know some people hate her, but I like her and that's all I have to say about it. I also got a book by (supposed) former Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko. I say "supposed" because now there is some controvesy about if he ever actually was a SEAL or if he was a- I forget the title, but it is basically a SEAL assistant- or something like that. Anyway, it is pure escapist, testosterone-laden, military acronym laced rot and I love reading it. In other words, it is total crap that no one in Arts and Literature grounded Portland has probably read. I love being different.

Besides, it makes me laugh. :)

I hope that everyone is having a great day!

Sherry

P.S.- Oh yeah... I forgot to tell everyone, you can make comments on my blogs. Just click on the little comment area at the end of each day's blog and write to me to tell me what you think. Good, bad or indifferent. Well, if you truly were indifferent, I guess you wouldn't take the time to write me a comment about it... but you get the idea! Love to all! S