Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Beets Me

Like dhania and beer before them, beets are something I never thought I'd enjoy. I always thought they tasted like dirt. They still do. It's just that I'm into them now.

Maybe it's because they are the new spinach, or perhaps it's their amazing color which makes it look like you've just performed surgery in your kitchen when you cut them, but something's got me loving beets.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Effed by Comcast, Yet Again

Wow. Just when I thought Comcast "Customer Service" could not get any more ridiculous, along comes this craziness:

I get an email from Comcast saying my statement is available online. I click on the link in the email and am prompted to enter my user-name. Underneath the box for user-name it says "Your user-name is your email address." So I enter my email address (the one to which they had sent the message about my bill).

Then it says, "Invalid user-name." So I try another user-name, which is not an email address, just my last name. This one works, and I am then prompted to enter my password. Whenever I try to do this, it automatically decides my user-name should be followed by "@comcast.net". I don't have a Comcast email account, so I can't figure out why it keeps doing this.

It keeps telling me that the password is invalid. So I click on "I forgot my user-name and password." It then prompts me to enter my phone number, and tells me the email associated with the account is "xxxxxxx(user-name)@comcast.net". So I try again, and click "I forgot my password." Now it tells me "There is no password associated with the account."

NO SHIT. THAT'S BECAUSE I NEVER CREATED THIS USER-NAME. YOU FREAKING MADE IT UP. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LOG IN IF YOU RE-SET MY USER-NAME AND I HAVE NO PASSWORD?

So it then says, "click here to chat live with a customer service representative." So I click, and then I get a message saying, "There seems to be an unusually long wait to chat with a service representative. Try calling 1-800-COMCAST."

F you, Comcast. I hate your guts.