Frustrated
Apr. 5th, 2006 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Aside from the bit of good news today, my world has been fraught with frustration & irritation...
1) Trying to get a taxi today to go to the doctor was unsuccessful, largely because I spent about 20 minutes per cab company trying to get someone to answer the damned phone. And the buses out here are not even moderately inconvenient - they are completely inconvenient. When Rob first came home on Tuesday & said the tranny was blown, I suggested a rental car. U-Haul only wants $19.99 a day but Rob balked at .59c a mile. He also balked at $150 for a 3-day rental. So I had to postpone my appointment and I've been stuck at home, except for walking to the bank. If the truck is still out of commish over the weekend, we're renting a fucking car because I'm not going to rely on the bus system out here to get me to work.
2) My doctor finally faxed my birth control prescription to Wal-Green's today. For a three-month supply. I'm going to have to have the pharmacy fax him a request again in July to get the pills refilled for another 3 months. I have 6 months to find a new gynecologist, because this 3-month-at-a-time is not going to work out for me.
3) I tried to give half.com my new bank account info for my seller's account with them. They want all the old bank account info to do this. I don't have a clue as to what any of it is because, well, those guys may have stolen checks, so I destroyed the ones that remained in the house. I didn't have my account info memorized, either... so in order to be able to give half.com a new bank account # I have to go through an enormous amount of verification so they can shut the security on the account off so I can enter my new account number. And if I cancel my seller's account with half.com, it also cancels my buyer's account w/half.com, my buyer & seller account with e-Bay AND my accounts with PayPal. What kind of fucked up shit is that, especially considering that PayPal let me go in & delete the old bank account & put the new one on file without a hitch?
4) World of Warcraft is seriously pissing me off. Granted, we have dial-up so if there is an update associated w/their weekly server maintenance, I may not be able to log in for 2 days while it uploads. Such is life w/a 56k modem. However, they shut the servers down 2 - 3 times a week in the early mornings... tonight I was in an instance w/Rob & got bumped off line, & when I logged back in - they say they're having 'authentication problems' that can prevent the user from being able to log in. At first, right around 10:40pm, the message said '11pm'. At 11:10pm, it had been extended to 1am. I only get to actually play maybe 1 evening a week, maybe 6 - 8 hours a week before or after work. This week has been kind of nice because I called in sick Sunday night. But I still seem to spend less time in the game world than I am waiting for some kind of update or maintenance to take place.
Blizzard is a great company, and I love their games. WoW is very cool, and I haven't gotten bored yet, which Rob is happy about. But, I am paying $14.99 every month for the pleasure of this game, and nights like tonight make me wonder why. I mean, I've played Diablo II for a long time on battle.net with nary a server maintenance problem, and Diablo's free. If they can keep a system like Diablo running w/out a hitch (and not just Diablo, but Warcraft in all its various incarnations and Starcraft, too) - why are they having so many problems w/WoW? Right now I could log into Diablo & there will probably be well over 100,000 games going on, which is anywhere from 1 - 800,000 people. It makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm trying to find a customer service e-mail addy for Blizzard & not having much luck. I am going to start keeping a 'down time' log just to show that I am being inconvenienced by their incompetence. I do appreciate their need to constantly add new content to keep people interested and playing, but I think I am not alone when I feel they should put the new content on hold for awhile & work on permanent fixes for their existing problems.
So, my day has been filled with technical support issues, or a lack thereof. I am just wondering who I pissed off now, or who else I pissed off?
1) Trying to get a taxi today to go to the doctor was unsuccessful, largely because I spent about 20 minutes per cab company trying to get someone to answer the damned phone. And the buses out here are not even moderately inconvenient - they are completely inconvenient. When Rob first came home on Tuesday & said the tranny was blown, I suggested a rental car. U-Haul only wants $19.99 a day but Rob balked at .59c a mile. He also balked at $150 for a 3-day rental. So I had to postpone my appointment and I've been stuck at home, except for walking to the bank. If the truck is still out of commish over the weekend, we're renting a fucking car because I'm not going to rely on the bus system out here to get me to work.
2) My doctor finally faxed my birth control prescription to Wal-Green's today. For a three-month supply. I'm going to have to have the pharmacy fax him a request again in July to get the pills refilled for another 3 months. I have 6 months to find a new gynecologist, because this 3-month-at-a-time is not going to work out for me.
3) I tried to give half.com my new bank account info for my seller's account with them. They want all the old bank account info to do this. I don't have a clue as to what any of it is because, well, those guys may have stolen checks, so I destroyed the ones that remained in the house. I didn't have my account info memorized, either... so in order to be able to give half.com a new bank account # I have to go through an enormous amount of verification so they can shut the security on the account off so I can enter my new account number. And if I cancel my seller's account with half.com, it also cancels my buyer's account w/half.com, my buyer & seller account with e-Bay AND my accounts with PayPal. What kind of fucked up shit is that, especially considering that PayPal let me go in & delete the old bank account & put the new one on file without a hitch?
4) World of Warcraft is seriously pissing me off. Granted, we have dial-up so if there is an update associated w/their weekly server maintenance, I may not be able to log in for 2 days while it uploads. Such is life w/a 56k modem. However, they shut the servers down 2 - 3 times a week in the early mornings... tonight I was in an instance w/Rob & got bumped off line, & when I logged back in - they say they're having 'authentication problems' that can prevent the user from being able to log in. At first, right around 10:40pm, the message said '11pm'. At 11:10pm, it had been extended to 1am. I only get to actually play maybe 1 evening a week, maybe 6 - 8 hours a week before or after work. This week has been kind of nice because I called in sick Sunday night. But I still seem to spend less time in the game world than I am waiting for some kind of update or maintenance to take place.
Blizzard is a great company, and I love their games. WoW is very cool, and I haven't gotten bored yet, which Rob is happy about. But, I am paying $14.99 every month for the pleasure of this game, and nights like tonight make me wonder why. I mean, I've played Diablo II for a long time on battle.net with nary a server maintenance problem, and Diablo's free. If they can keep a system like Diablo running w/out a hitch (and not just Diablo, but Warcraft in all its various incarnations and Starcraft, too) - why are they having so many problems w/WoW? Right now I could log into Diablo & there will probably be well over 100,000 games going on, which is anywhere from 1 - 800,000 people. It makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm trying to find a customer service e-mail addy for Blizzard & not having much luck. I am going to start keeping a 'down time' log just to show that I am being inconvenienced by their incompetence. I do appreciate their need to constantly add new content to keep people interested and playing, but I think I am not alone when I feel they should put the new content on hold for awhile & work on permanent fixes for their existing problems.
So, my day has been filled with technical support issues, or a lack thereof. I am just wondering who I pissed off now, or who else I pissed off?
