September 1, 2009 — Comments Closed
I know insurance guys are notorious for wanting to sell you stuff you do not need, but these last two days have been such a hassle!!!
It started last Thursday with my new landlord calling me and telling me I needed tenant insurance. Okay, sure. Maybe I’m a little new to this insurance thing, but I was thinking insurance worth not even $200 for a year wouldn’t take that long to get. Friday I go to TD Canada Trust, and they tell me they cannot give me insurance in person. I need to call. The website, where I obtained my quote, told me nothing of the sort. Luckily, the guy I talked to had a friend at State Farm and I got his number.
Monday morning, yesterday, I call then go see this insurance guy. He seems nice enough. Too bad even the nice, and seemingly honest, insurance guys still try to sell you things. I was only there for renter’s insurance. I made that clear. I get a great quote for the insurance I actually want. He did quote me further for car insurance, which was okay since it was MUCH lower than what I’m paying now. About half of what I pay now. It doesn’t matter anyways, since I’m taking my car off the insurance for essentially 8 months. I told him this many times too, but he conveniently ignored me. I get my tenant’s insurance and gtfo back to work.
About 20 minutes ago, the other insurance dude calls me (who I worked with for my car). I meant to call him for address changes, but he got to me first. I changed my address successfully, with minimal interruptions. After many times interrupting me with more sales pitch, I finally got through to him that I wanted to take my road insurance off for the next 8 months except for December. My dad had done it a few times before, so how hard could it be? Apparently a lot more of a hassle for me! I have to send him pictures of my car and photocopy the parking permit that doesn’t exist.
He got incredibly confused when I tried to explain to him that my car is parked on the premise of my apartment building. He thought I was paying to park at the school. This is on my cell too, so there’s a bunch of airtime wasted. When he finally understood what was even going on, he tried to sell me tenant’s insurance. I tried to say “no”, but he continued to interrupt me. I let him quote me, hoping to say “lol I got way lower from other company”. He quotes me for double of what I’m paying now, and I quickly tell him he sucks (not really, but I wish).
I’m very tempted to just ring him up again and tell him to cancel me completely. I can just go with someone else (like that other insurance guy from yesterday). Siiigh.
August 23, 2009 — Comments Closed
By nothing I mean:
- Stayed inside all day with the exception of getting a couple things from the grocery at around 21:00
- Watched Firefly
- Watched Alias
- Restored and fiddled with podcasts
- Pruned music library
- Inwardly ranted about iTunes
- Tweeted
- MSN’ed
- Stared at my desktop wallpaper
- Made muffins
- Made and ate a peanut butter & nanner sandwich
My friends who are obsessed with Joss Whedon/BSG were trying to get me to watch Firefly/BSG for a loong time, and this weekend I finally settled down to watch. It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever watched – but I haven’t seen many shows. Personally I think having it be only a few episodes (though the reason why pretty much sucks) is better than having a show run on for ten thousand seasons. My favourite episode is definitely “Out of Gas”. It’s such a dramatic episode… The only thing I’m not entirely fond of is River… sometimes her character annoys me with her spontaneous crazyness. I’m sure she gets developed more later, but grrr: she’ll just be sitting there and suddenly go all wide-eyed and start rummaging through a box for mysterious reasons. So far, though, it’s epic. I really didn’t see the comedy portions coming at all – they’re hilarious! I love Nathan Fillion~
Alias is also awesome. It’s an old show and has stopped airing new episodes, but I’m usually really late on these things. I’m just starting season 3, after finishing season 2 back in late December (over Italy trip). I don’t care about spoilers so: Sidney woke up in Hong Kong at the end of season 2, and now she’s kicking butt again whilst finding out wtf happened. She was ‘dead’ for two years. I can’t wait to find out! I love Jennifer Garner~
Other highlights of my fairly uneventful day: it rained. I was going to setup my tent and sleep in it last night, but I got lazy. Good thing I didn’t since it was pouring in the morning! The lovely evening Friday night attempted to trick me into tenting in my side yard…
Two weeks of work left! I need to get started on that work term report… among another bunch of things to do. I just keep pissing away time :S
August 11, 2009 — Comments Closed
There probably exists even uglier source code out there, but this is absolutely ridiculous. All you standards-freaks out there will cringe and throw up a little in your mouth:
http://www.fujinonbinos.com/
In other news, I updated the layout more.
My work term is nearly over – 18 days of work left. I’m not counting down because I dislike it, I’m just simply counting down. I still need to do the dreaded “Work term report”. One of the most-hated things by co-op students at UW – besides PD[eng] of course. I could get into a giant rant about it… but I won’t right now. The Professional Development courses are the biggest waste of time, money, and bandwidth ever. You learn nothing. Well, maybe you do, but you learn how to be a great business person and use <insert skills here> – 20 years ago. Especially for tech companies I find (because I’ve worked for a couple now), the things noted in the PD courses are not accurate.
Excited for school! :D Not excited for doing work term report! D:
