Has anyone else notices all the websites with “faux” customer service? They employ these “bells and whistles” types of customer service (Live Chat for example), but the live chat is either never online, of they just run you around in circles until you just give up. For example, here is a Live Chat I just had with SteveMadden.com’s customer service:

Please wait for a site operator to respond.

You are now chatting with ‘John’

you: Hi, My shipping address does not fit in your “address” field

John: Hello! How may I assist you?

John: Please put the additional info in the “Address 2″ field.

you: There is no Address 2 field

John: Can you provide me with more details about your problem please?

you: Okay. My address doesn’t fit in your “address” field and there is no “address 2″ field.

you: Company: » First Name: » Last Name: » Address: » City: » State/Province: » ZIP/Postal Code: » Country: » Phone:

you: These are the fields available. My address does not fit on the address line. There is no address 2 line.

John: I am very sorry for your inconvenience.

I have the same problems with site5.com, which is where I host my dedicated server. They were catching a bunch of flak because the only way to contact customer service with via their “Help Desk” email ticket system, so they had this big fanfare about launching “Support Chat”. I have tried it 5 different times and EVERY single time this is what their response is:

“You’re going to need to email our help desk”.

Oh, great. Thanks for the reallllllly helpful support that serves one purpose, which must be just to waste my time.

Alcoholism is not a disease. You are not born pre-determined to be an alcoholic. Drinking alcohol in excess (or at all) is your choice, why do so many people try to blame it on someone else? What a fucking piss poor excuse…

Wah, I’m lonely. Boohoo, I was abused. Sob, “enter excuse here”.

If you’re old enough to blame your liking to party on someone else, you’re old enough to take responsibility for your own actions. You were not born with a bottle of tequila in your mouth, you chose to put it there and cry like a little bitch when someone tells you that you should probably do something more productive. And now you want me to feel sorry for you? Cry me a river, Boozy the Clown.

Oh, and let me guess. Your fat because you have fat genes, not because you consume a ridiculous amount of calories each day.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-alcohol. I’m anti-excuse. I have so much more respect for someone that say’s, “I just like to get fucked up all the time”, then someone that says, “I can’t help it. I’m an alcoholic, so it’s not my fault that I get fucked up all the time.”

Heather blog tagged me, so here goes!

What was I doing 10 years ago?
… In 1998, I was living in Pacific Beach, CA with roomates (Erin, Kip and Jim).
… I was dating someone that was 10 years older then me.
… I was working as a receptionist at Simply Internet (I think).

Things On My To Do list
… UPS/FedEx quotes
… New warehouse
… Hire receptionist/CSR rep
… Gmail w/Linz
… Met with QB ProAdvisor
… Swim email
… Invoice to UPS
… Instruction on adding products
(I literally just copied these from the To Do list on my whiteboard)

Bad Habits
… Procrastination
… I stay up WAY too late
… I’m horrible at returning calls (but I’m working on it)

Places I have Lived
… All over San Diego (Ramona, Poway, Pacific Beach, South Park, Clairmont, Cardiff, Carlsbad)
… Big Bear, CA
… Rincon, Puerto Rico

Things Most People Don’t Know About Me
… I have anxiety
… I’m extremely competitive
… I play Texas Hold ‘em poker 3 nights a week

Now, I am going to blog tag: Bulbboy, Stefan and Jashana

Okay. Seriously. What the FUCK is wrong with people?!:?

If your 16 year old, 120lb daughter came to you and said, “Mom/Dad, I need liposuction and breast implants in order to live a fulfilling life.” What would your reaction be? Seriously, tell me. What would you say to her?

Maybe it’s just me, but I would tell her that she is beautiful and that plastic surgery is not the answers to her problems. Can you imagine if you came up to your parents and said, “I want bigger boobs and a flatter stomach, because someone at school said that I was fat”, and your parents said, “Okay, you’re right. You should get a boob job and lipo. Then everyone will like you! Have a twinky, you’re getting lipo!”

AGGGGGHHHH!!!! America makes me want to claw out my eyes until my brain melts!!!!

Stefan and I have talked about what we plan to do when we have children, in regards to public school vs. home schooling. I think public school holds a distinct advantage over home school because public school forces you to learn people skills and how to deal with human interaction. Kids get teased. Kids make friends. Kids make enemies. Kids learn how to deal with other human beings, with out their mommy or daddy holding their hand telling them what to do.

Personally, I had a fairly shitty time in the 6rd - 10th grade. I didn’t really have any friends, I wasn’t “cool”, boys didn’t like me. As a matter of fact, I remember particularly tramatic times, like when a couple of boys told someone that I was the ugliest girl in the class, or when this one bully came up to me in 7th grade and told me that I was a piece of shit that no one liked (and that she wanted to beat me up because of that), in front of pretty much everyone. I felt like the smallest, loneliest person in the world. Did I cry? Yes. Did I go out and get a boob job? Fuck no. Did the boy that said I was ugly ask me out a few years later? Yes, he did. I choose not to go on a 2nd date with him, because honestly, I was way cooler then him after high school, had a better job and surfed better then him. I guess I could have just gotten a boob job and married the pathetic kid…Hmmmmm…

I was blog tagged (again) by my friend Michael. The blog tag topic is: My Rules. I definatetly agree with Michaels rules, but I’m going to roll my rules into one.

My Rules

1. Karma’s a bitch. Act accordingly.

I will blog tag BulbBoy. What are your Rules?

I just got the following email from Stefan:

“good morning summer….i am drinking coffee and thinking about you. I am sorry, but I lost $118,000 in poker last night. i thought we were going to get that waterfall and pool you wanted. i’ll try again today
S”

Hopefully, he was just playing poker on the PSP (Play Station Portable), otherwise I might have to hitchhike back to Puerto Rico…

Here is a good quote that was sent to me by a friend (Thanks, Uros!):

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!
Quote by: Rudyard Kipling

Another very good quote:

“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand

And one more quote I like:

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
Quote by: Bernard Mannes Baruch

Does anyone else have a favorite quote? Post them here!

As if the fact that she can’t actually sing isn’t bad enough…

In Paris Hilton’s “music” video for the song “Nothing in this world“, she’s shown rubbing up on and getting naked in front of a 13 year old boy. Classssssssssssy…

Paris sings the following chorus as she’s rubbing up on this kid in her underwear:

“Nothing in this world can stop us tonight. I can do what she can do so much better. Nothing in this world can turn out the light. I’m going to make you feel alright tonight.“

Maybe it’s just me, but that’s just wrong..EWWWWWW.

I have some more interesting facts today! Did you know that…

More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephant and water buffalo combined.

Maine is four times larger then Isreal.

The average person has about 10,000 taste buds.

A cow can float for 20 miles in a flood.

Worldwide, wine grapes are grown on 20 million acres of land.

The peanut is a legume, a member of the pea family, not a nut.

Chinese is the most common language in the world, spoken by over 1 billion people.

California vineyards export wine to 164 different countries.

The human body requires less then a thimble full of vitamins and minerals daily.

Vatican employees pay no income tax.

In 1896, tickets for the Olympics cost roughly 16 cents.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger then it’s brain.

The weight of a blue whales tongue is greater then that of an adult elephant.

I know what you’re thinking…”Wow, Summer, you are the smartest person ever. Where did you learn all of these interesting facts?”. Well, the knowledge I contain can not be acquired at your fancy colleges…One of my favorite snacks are Laughing Cow Gourmet Cheese Bites and each peice has 2 interesting facts on the inside of the wrapper ;).

More interesting facts, here.

I really can’t believe it’s already 2007! The last 6 months of my life have been so busy and filled with drama that it’s really just been a blur. I am SO looking forward to leaving 2006 behind and all the positive changes that are going to happen this year. Not that 2006 was a horrible year, but the positives were overshadowed by the negatives, I think. Any how, this coming year, I am going to be:

* Working less

* Surfing more

* Traveling more

* Building my dream home in the tropics

* Bringing home a bunch of new animals (a few pigmy goats, a dog or two, a feral cat and maybe a cow. Seriously…haha)

* More creative

* Joining the World Series of Poker

Okay, maybe I made that last one up, but still…2007 is going to be a very good year :).