Author: wwducat

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Here’s something that passed through my mind

Appeal To Heaven Flag 1.I know, I’m an evil bastard.

After Maxine Waters saying things to gin up more racial divide and accusing trump supporters of training for the revolution… (would it be revolution or a civil war?) Hmm I’ll have to look that up. What defines one versus the other?

Anyway…  I was thinking it would be a lot of fun to have enough people wearing the “Appeal to Heaven” flag that literally everywhere she turned, she saw it. If she’s going to be paranoid, I say let’s feed it. Maybe, she will just obviously lose her mind, (instead of just being batshit crazy as she’s been for years,)  and be removed from Congress.

If we’re lucky perhaps we can drive Pelosi and “The Squad” nuts too.

This crossed my mind because the Democrats in media and government have been trying to damn Alito over his wife flying the flag at their beach house.

I really don’t like mad Maxine, and would love to see her frothing at the mouth about racism. Racism, mind you that her party thrives on and does everything in its power to perpetuate.

I noted that Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has pancreatic cancer. I’m sorry she’s sick. I hope for her sake, that she retires from Congress and the stresses of that job, to concentrate on healing.

Hopefully, her replacement will not be quite so stupid.

I’m being unkind. It feels almost like I’m kicking her when she’s down, but someone as stupid as she is, should not be in Congress.

Honestly, there should be some kind of minimum standard for Congressional service. Minimum intelligence? Minimum GPA? Perhaps each candidate should have to pass an entrance exam with their score published publicly, prior to them campaigning for a position.

If we had something like an entrance exam, we might have a chance of having the best leaders instead of the most moronic.

I’m not going to hold my breath.

Oh I’ve been asked to pass on that the MAGA Tank driving training is taking place next weekend.

Coordinates: 35.0083333 -115.4749981

Make sure to tell Maxine.

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It is the Yellow time.

This happens every single year, sometimes it’s worse than other times. 

After the blizzard in 2023 all the water supercharged plants and there were days when I felt like I was living in a yellow fog. That was in addition to the fog I was living in anyway.

The most recent Winter wasn’t quite as wet, but there is still a little yellow fog when the wind blows, or I vacuum. 

Every tree and plant is doing the pollen thing. My sinuses are super pissed off!

Opening the windows which I prefer, since it’s not been too hot means I get to deal with a fine yellow layer of pollen every morning. I typically close the windows at night so in the stillness the pollen settles.

Eh I’m probably just bitching because literally everyone is getting laid, including the Trees and plants and I’m not getting any!

I’m just jealous.

Anyhow, I’ll be working to keep my sinuses clear for at least the next few weeks in hopes of avoiding any more serious sinus related issues. My sinuses being pissed off is one thing, them being infected is quite another.

Hope everyone is having a good week.

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After Years (more than a decade) T-Mobile & I end the relationship in a shitty way

T-Mobile logo pink.I transferred my number to another carrier.

T-Mobile acts these days lot more like the shitshow formerly known as SPRINT.

The relationship came to an end when one of TMobile’s representatives said, “The Plan is the plan” 

She was explaining to me that TMobile was still going to bill me $75, a full month of service, which also included service for my phone line, (cancelled on 5/31) when I was pulling the plug on the first of the month.

What’s really annoying is that I was just auto-billed my monthly $75, 3 days ago. I’d have thought that any services would be prorated.

I asked the representative if the billing was pre or post paid.

The little foreign girl didn’t seem to understand what I was asking and just repeated 

“The Plan is the Plan”

As if that answered my question or concern about their billing practices.

WOW!!!!

Sprint Corp 742392705.This by the way is exactly how I felt when I finally terminated my relationship with SPRINT long distance years ago. I remember the same sort of billing bullshit and that is exactly why I avoided SPRINT as a mobile phone provider.

It’s just bad business practices and the corporate heads simply expect you to swallow it.

My new carrier is based in Georgia and their customer service folks are all American. T-Mobile’s customer service is at least partially out outside the country.

Worst case scenario I’m being billed the equivalent of Alimony for breaking up with T-Mobile. Thankfully it’s only one month.

Depending on what they do, I may or may not report their behavior to the FCC and Better Business bureau.

At this point, I could see putting T-Mobile on the “Avoid at all Costs” list. 

Recently, I’ve been wondering, am I the only person noticing that customer service is getting worse and worse?

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Porting gone wrong!

Well that was an EPIC Fail!

I decided that I wanted to get a cheaper cellular plan. I’ve been with T-mobile for years and well, recently there have been some issues that have put me off on them.

$80 a month seems excessive even though I have multiple devices.

I’m also less and less impressed with their customer service.

Anyway, I found a plan, that was probably going to be workable and signed up. After an hour or two I got a notification on my phone that a new esim was available for installation.

That’s where it all went to hell!

I wanted to keep my phone number so there was supposed to be what they call a port of the old number to the new carrier. After a really long time I got a message saying that the esim activation failed.

Immediately after that I got a message from TMobile saying that there had been changes to my account and it appears that they deleted my phone number from their systems and in the process they took away my access to the account that still has my watch and iPad connected. 

Oh and my phone can no longer make or receive phone calls. Since this is my only voice line it leaves me in an interesting situation. I can’t call customer service to ask for them to help me out.

Don’t laugh! IT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!

(Okay, yes it is kind of funny.)

So then I write the new carrier an email and explain that something has gone horribly wrong. I’m still waiting for an answer.

I’ve also found that I cannot log into the new carrier’s web site as I was told I could do. So something else has gone terribly awry. 

I will get all of this sorted out eventually.

What remains to be seen is will I still have my phone number or will there be a new number?

There is a temptation to just not have a phone number at all. I can still dial 911 from my phone. Is that all I need?

I’ve been looking into getting phone service of any kind so that I can call the new carrier. I thought, “Hey maybe I can just purchase a new plan with a new number from them, then use that number to call custom support to clear up the first problem, then cancel the plan with the new number. 

I was thinking that would make everything contained in just one phone call. 

They won’t allow me to do that. Probably something to do with the pending stuff that isn’t working in their system. 

I’m thinking that I’m going to have to buy a burner phone or at least a burner esim to get voice communications up & running again.

Thus far I’m only mildly annoyed and / or amused.

This is why I was a good Software QA person. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong on my stuff.

I wonder if VOIP is an option. I’ve got 1GB fiber. Ughhh Google Voice! I hate Google.

Anyway, I thought I’d send up this flare to let anyone who might have been trying to call me the 1 or 2 folks that is, That I’m alive and well and just having some technical difficulties.

Well it only took 4.5 hours!

I now have my phone working again and My Apple Watch is online too. Oh and I’m able to log into the customer portal.

I’m now using the new carrier to kill the rest of Tmobile

Then I need to figure out how to wipe the google talk account. But I’m wondering if it might not be a good idea to keep it just in the event that I end up in a similar situation in the future.

The devil is in the details isn’t it?

Voice mail
SMS
MMS

I haven’t had to set up these things for years! I mean decades. Migrating phones on the same carrier is pretty dang seamless in the Apple Ecosystem. So easy that you can forget the little things completely.

Since I haven’t switched carriers in a very very long time, I’d forgotten about all the settings that I’d customized. 

It’s taken me a while and I hope that my voicemail is set up correctly now! Boy, the setup is very different than I remember. 

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My God the Democrats have lost their minds!

Traitors All.I wasn’t planning to write about any political shit today. But I can’t remain silent in the face of this stupidity!

Across the nation there are Democrats celebrating that the “Evil Orange Man” was found guilty on all 34 charges. Charges of WHAT???

A bookkeeping error?  More properly, that someone in New York City didn’t like the way the book keeping was done by Trumps bookkeeper and found Trump guilty instead of trying the accountant or bookkeeper for this crime.

Fuck! These people are stupid!

But it’s worse than that. If the Republicans end up in power, regardless of Trump winning or not. The Republicans should, in my opinion go after every single one of the Democrats with questionable activities in Congress.

The best thing the Biden administration could do right now, is to disband congress, fire all the Justices in the SCOTUS appoint their own justices and Biden should declare himself dictator for life.

As angry as the people of America are about this I can’t see anything other than completely flushing the United States Constitution.

The implementation of Communist ideals is the only option left to these people. That is the only way that they could possibly intimidate the American People into submission.

Anything less, well they might be able to pull off a bloodless coup.

If the Republicans take control of congress then all these people better be running for the border to someplace without extradition.

If the Republicans use the perverted laws that the Democrats have used every one of these people would be marched out to the gallows and hung.

Honestly, if that were to happen, I’d crack open a beer and smoke a cigar to watch the executions.

Unfortunately I think we’re in for some real shit out of the Democrats in the next few months. We’ve already seen dumbass Joe making statements about the verdict today. Did anyone listen to his address?

His exit from the press conference and that evil little smile said everything we needed to know about Joe Biden.