1. Calls appearing to go out but not being picked up or going through to the intended caller.
2. Calls repeatedly dropped during a phone call.
3. Texts not being delivered or received in a timely manner.
4. The inability to call out.

I have been an at&t wireless customer since the late 90’s. This means I have seen your company go from at&t wireless to Cingular and back to at&t wireless and have never left your service during these changes. Over this time, I’ve been frustrated but never to this extreme. I would cancel your service in a heartbeat but I’m locked in a contract.

Here’s the plan…. I will retweet this post when these offenses occur. Right now, I estimate this message will get retweeted and reposted to Facebook somewhere between five to seven times daily.

On your way home from work, stop at your pharmacy and go to the thermometer section and purchase a rectal thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson.

Be very sure you get this brand. When you get home, lock your doors, draw the curtains and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed.

Change into very comfortable clothing and sit in your favorite chair. Open the package and remove the thermometer.

Now the fun part begins.

Now, carefully place it on a table or a surface so that it will not become chipped or broken.

Take out the literature from the box and read it carefully.

You will notice that in small print there is a statement:

“Every Rectal Thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson is personally tested and then sanitized.”

Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud five times, ‘ I am so glad I do not work in the thermometer quality control department at Johnson & Johnson.’

HAVE A NICE DAY; AND REMEMBER, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE WITH A JOB THAT IS MORE OF A PAIN IN THE ARSE THAN YOURS!

My automatic response to this was “YES, WE NEED TO CUT TAXES!!!“. By lowering taxes on small and medium sized business, we will enable business to grow and flourish.

We all have our opinions but I guess the one thing that bugs me is the automatic “pigeon-holing” that we all do. To automatically label someone (red or blue / republican or democrat / genius or idiot) because they don’t share one of your values is ludicrous.

As far as I’m concerned, the thought that anyone is willing to accept higher taxes so we can support people who should be supporting themselves is insane! Or the thought that we need to raise taxes because the government can’t balance a checkbook to save their lives.  I’m not going to make the assumption that he’s a fascist, just misguided.

So, @ryan_rose,just because I’m very much in favor of being fiscally conservative, pro small business, and a big fan of social darwinism… doesn’t make me a cousin of Glen Beck. I’m not that extreme.

I’ve enjoyed our conversation today and look forward to them in the future. It’s fun to debate with people who have different views because it’s what keeps us all sharp. Take care and have a great weekend.

As reported by Foxnews, some reporters from ABC took that and ran with it on Twitter.  Here’s what is the result:

In ABC’s response to this, they state “This was done before our editorial process had been completed”.  We all know the major news outlets edit their stories.  But how much do they censor their reporters?

So again, it’s all about the Ham Sandwiches in SoDo…. just to be perfectly clear…..

Something I continue to learn is not to keep things bottled up.  Not only does it get me cranky, but it doesn’t do anyone any good.  Maybe there’s a New Year’s resolution in there somewhere.  Hehe.

Hell, just for grins, maybe I’ll start a new category about “anger management”.  Not that I’m angry, I just tend to bottle things up and let them build for a while.  Maybe the category will be filled with stories that seem so ridiculous to be angry about along with things that people should get angry about.  I can see it now that this category could be filled up pretty quickly with stories from the Seattle Times and the Seattle PI.  The PI will be easier since they have a “sound off” section where people tend to get a little heated.