Ian's blog

I got 3 rolls of photos back yesterday, I can remember where i took most of the photos, but one roll the rolls has some photos that I just can’t remember where i took them. I remember taking some of the them but i can’t remember where. My gut feeling is that it was Shenandoah but the photos from the last trip to Shenandoah were on a different roll. I am confused

I am disappointed again, I saw a trailer for Fox 5 news at 10 and it had a few things that sounded interesting, one story about getting the best deal on cell phones and another about Cox cable. The cell phone story basically said nothing and at the end said go look at a web site that I can’t remember. The cox story could have been summed up in 2 lines. Cox is behind on upgrading to digital service and a lot of complaints have been made about the service so they are going to freeze the prices for a year. For this a wasted an hour watching it. I will say this, I learned where the big new looking snow plows that were sitting on 395 can from, New Jersey. DC have given a NJ company the contract to keep the roads clear. Then again I could have lived with out knowing that little fact.

That is ad number two that I have seen with mini’s in them, first the ikeas ads now target is running one. I wonder if BWM is going to start selling the new ones in the US and this is clever ploy to get the car into peoples thoughts before they do. I would be interested in test driving one for the hell of it. I mean that car is easy to find a parking spot for.

For anyone considering using Best Buys.com’s pick up at the store don’t even think of using the pentagon City store. Turned up yesterday and was told there system was down and to come back tomorrow. Turned up today and went up the counter that said Financing and Pick up and was told to stand in the very long line for the customer returns. Got the front of the line and was told that they couldn’t do anything unless they had the order number. So wondered off to find the bestbuy.com terminal in the store to go print off a copy. Went back to the long line for customer returns. I noticed someone who looked like the manager so went over and confirmed he was. He wouldn’t even make eye contact with me. I asked him to confirm that we had to wait in the long customer returns line instead of going to the sign that said “finance and customer pick ups” He said “That is correct”, I then suggested that this wasn’t very fair considering I was purchasing a product instead of returning a product. He basically said that I should stand in the long returns line. On saying that I didn’t think that was good customer service he said “I disagree”. Once we got to the front of the line for the second time it took 3 hard drives over 3 trips to get the correct hard drive. You notice that they don’t put your order aside when you make it online so are not guaranteed your order when you get to the store.
It ended up taking and hour and a half to pick up a stinking hard drive.

So Bryan the manager at the Pentagon Best Buy, your store sucks and you should pay attention to a customer when they make a suggestion on improving their experience of buying something at your store.

Did I hear the word SNOW!!. I drive round the beltway and onto 395 and ever few exists there were trucks with snow plows and salt waiting to roll.

I wonder why they are running this story now, In the post

I had dinner with HY and friends last night, drove all the way out to reston to find the trip to Nation was on, so drove all the way back to Alexandria to meet up with them then dance till 3 am. I rolled over and looked at the clock went hmm almost lunch time, rolled over again and went shit 11:55 I need to pay my rent today and the office closes at 12 noon. I made it in time and dropped off my cheque. I have now had a shower and smell less of what was being smoked round about me. Now to phone HY back and sort of the plans for the rest of the day. I think we are going to be going Scottish Country Dancing Tomorrow. I was thinking that it was today but it is the 6th so that gives me a little time to recover.

This question has been running around in my head for the past couple days. I remember taking a class in High School called modern studies which covers politics and other modern type issues. One of the questions asked in the class was “What companies would you not work for because they make something that is against your moral beliefs” Would you work for a company that makes bombs that kill people for example? Would you work for the company that makes the microchips that are used by the company that make the bombs? Would you work for a company that you know makes something that is used by the company that makes the microchips? Where do you draw the line?

This was an interesting question when I was 14, I am now I am 26 and looking for a job and a lot of the companies in the area are involved in military contracts.

Happy New Year to everyone!