Day 7: Made it a Week

Well, I have successfully managed to blog for one week. Man, it seems like a lot to me but when I think of how many people blog daily then... well, not so much. But a lot of them get paid for it so, well maybe not so bad on my part.

Today has been a slow day, and an ANGRY day, but more on that in a minute.

Accomplishments: Today Meg and I walked for about 2-3 miles which was refreshing and nice out in the quasi warm air. Now people may say that walking is not a good workout but I disagree. Especially at the freakish pave Meg keeps. My poor short legs are nothing to her giraffe legs and it is pretty tiring keeping up, and she has trained unintentionally all her life to walk faster than any speed mall walker. So, long walk in the sun, good mild cardio. Feels good.

Emotional Achievement. I actually got off my ass today and wrote some. I decided to start writing one of my scripts even though it isn't entirely outlined because, what the hell. Why not. I NEED product, and NEED to work. So, today instead of working on the teaching stuff, I worked to create material that I can have as a representation of my skill. Now I only wrote about 3 pages of the script Trees, but still, I feel pretty good about it. And I have about 20 weeks to get it done. 110 pages roughly so about 5 pages a week. More would be nice so I can get a revision in. May not seem like much, but I want to make every product I create here out my BEST. Because if it isn't my best, then it isn't worth anything.

And yes, for the ANGRY part. I will burn the Verizon store across the street from my house TO THE GROUND. And yes, while this may very easily make me a prime suspect I plan on leaving a note saying a rival cellular company did it, ignoring the fact that this will probably burn up too. Went in today to move myself off my parents plan (don't worry I've been paying them and not piggy backing, though they tend to charge me an erroneously large amount, the sneaks trying to make a profit on me) and to move Meg off her parents account, and to create a new account for the 2 of us. Now apparently starting, yes, TODAY, all the Verizon deals on phones went away. Now I can live with that, missed the opportunity fine. What ELSE they did was, now every phone that is "3G" capable, which as it turns out is ALL OF THEM, have a MANDATORY 10$ per phone charge to use the Internet. Even if you don't want the service. That is right. I rolled in wanting to get a phone with a camera and keyboard and that is ALL, and now they are FORCING me to get shitty Internet. $20 per plan for the two of us. $240 a year. I could buy a small TV I'd actually USE for that money. This would have been different yesterday too for the same phones. Its not like it is some how built in, they are choosing to FORCE people to get Internet on their phones weather they want it or not. That and the phones we wanted to get are shitty for Internet so they don't even receive fast or efficiently at all. And for 10$ what do you get? 25 megs a month. This is the equivalent of checking your email about 5-6 times. I check my email 5-6 times an HOUR. And so you must understand their thinking. Force them to get shitty Internet, then the customer will think "Hey, if I MUST get this crap, I might as well spend the 20$ more and get unlimited Internet". Which is SHITTY. I do NOT want Internet on my phone, not cause I don't think it would be interesting, but because I personally don't like the phones and Internet service out there, it isn't fast and convenient enough yet. I was planning on waiting a few more years until the touch screens stopped breaking in my pocket (case in point why I need a new phone) and the Internet was faster on all the phones. That and the first girl who tried to "help" us out at the store was insanely condescending and she almost brought out Mr. Stabby. Hence another reason that store in particular will be a smoldering pile of ash by the end of the week.
So in summary, Verizon is forcing people to pay 10$ per month every time you get a new phone now, and they are doing it to try and coax the other phone companies to do it. They are "breaking the ice" as it was described to me. Pissed. So I am going to be a very old man and write a letter. To whom? EVERYONE. Because I can and it will make me feel better like the big baby I am. I like to throw a literary tantrum. :-D

Hence today's lesson will be the following. If you are not a Verizon customer consider upgrading your phone sooner rather than later because they might try to do this on everyone. If you are a Verizon customer in a similar boat as to me you're only real option is to purchase a "Grandfathered" phone, ie. one that was sold and discontinued prior to this plan change, and no, used phones that are currently sold will be forced under this plan too, I checked this one out cause I thought I could just EBay the phone I wanted. So, annoyingly, I am getting a refurbished Version of my current phone that hopefully isn't cracked and retarded, and I am paying 10$ a month for a service Meg will never use on her new phone. Thank you Verizon, I have a present for you and it is between my index and ring finger.

So watch out for those cellular companies. They are trying to monopolize more than ever.

BEWARE!!

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