What, did people suddenly get bonuses or something?
What I found at the flea market today:
A Hiroshima CD I didn't own (another "Best of" compilation);
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80's - complete for $6! I played it a bit and had fun. I missed playing Guitar Hero, I got tired of the songs in the GH games I owned. Playing all-new songs I hadn't tried before was awesome, and it also made my left hand feel better (my carpal tunnel gets better when I play GH because it forces me to move ALL my fingers, stretching them. Figures.);
Spear of Destiny Super CD Pack - The Wolfenstein sequels, on one CD. With the original box and manuals. I haven't seen a complete copy on eBay in like three years. A CD only copy sold for $35! Part of me wants to sell it, but ... the collector side of me says "HELL NAW"
Anyway. After weeks of not getting any sales, all of a sudden I get $130 from one guy, $30 from another, one sale for $75 (pending payment), and another for $75 (waiting on the buyer's reply). I'm still waiting for two people to pay what they owe me (about $100ish). AND I've already covered all this month's bills. And to think, I'd gotten a loan from someone I know to cover all my bills... and right after he gives me the money, this happens. Hah. (I'm not paying him back yet, I will once these two stragglers pay up what they owe.)
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I had an... interesting call today. A couple of weeks ago, the phone rang. When I picked up the phone, I noticed that the Caller ID said it was a private number, which made me think it was mom calling (her number comes up as private). It turns out to be a telemarketer (a feisty-sounding woman) who called me to offer me some sort of life insurance policy. Me, being the polite bastard that I am, let her talk for like three or four minutes while she went ahead and recited her scripted sales pitch. I then told her I wasn't interested, apologized, said thanks and hung up.
Fast forward to today. I get a call, and see the caller ID... Private again. It can't be mom, because she doesn't have her phone set up right now (she moved to another apartment, and she hasn't changed her phone line to there). I pick up and some guy who sounds right out of a game show speaks. *uh oh* He asks for a "Mr. David... Seelva". Yes, he couldn't even say my name right. I say that he's speaking. He then starts to go off about a wonderful health insurance opportunity called... I forget. So I just... hang up. No words, no nothing. Just hung up.
I get another call. It's from a private number; him again. I'm not surprised. I pick up, then hang up immediately.
He calls again. I YELL "I'M NOT INTERESTED" and hang up. No more calls.
So I go about my errands and think, "Well, if the US has a Do Not Call Registry, I wonder if Mexico has one too?" So after a bit of Googling, I find out, hey, we do! I'm going to call them tomorrow morning after I come back from the post office. I'm the guy in our phone line contract, so they're going to have to listen to me.
Anyway... I did find something interesting while searching for our Do Not Call Registry. I stumbled upon the Revista del Consumidór's website (a government-published magazine which tests several products and warns about possible scams, among other stuff - it's been published for over twenty years!) and I found... this.
Aheh. It's a lot crackier than you think. A LOT. Available on PDF format, for free, no strings attached. There's two earlier issues, which are just as bad. And they're free to redistribute. Which means... yes, you'll see these with a translation and commentary on Scans Daily as soon as my bandwidth gets reset, which should be on Sunday. Tee hee.
Yeah. I'm done now.
A Hiroshima CD I didn't own (another "Best of" compilation);
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80's - complete for $6! I played it a bit and had fun. I missed playing Guitar Hero, I got tired of the songs in the GH games I owned. Playing all-new songs I hadn't tried before was awesome, and it also made my left hand feel better (my carpal tunnel gets better when I play GH because it forces me to move ALL my fingers, stretching them. Figures.);
Spear of Destiny Super CD Pack - The Wolfenstein sequels, on one CD. With the original box and manuals. I haven't seen a complete copy on eBay in like three years. A CD only copy sold for $35! Part of me wants to sell it, but ... the collector side of me says "HELL NAW"
Anyway. After weeks of not getting any sales, all of a sudden I get $130 from one guy, $30 from another, one sale for $75 (pending payment), and another for $75 (waiting on the buyer's reply). I'm still waiting for two people to pay what they owe me (about $100ish). AND I've already covered all this month's bills. And to think, I'd gotten a loan from someone I know to cover all my bills... and right after he gives me the money, this happens. Hah. (I'm not paying him back yet, I will once these two stragglers pay up what they owe.)
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I had an... interesting call today. A couple of weeks ago, the phone rang. When I picked up the phone, I noticed that the Caller ID said it was a private number, which made me think it was mom calling (her number comes up as private). It turns out to be a telemarketer (a feisty-sounding woman) who called me to offer me some sort of life insurance policy. Me, being the polite bastard that I am, let her talk for like three or four minutes while she went ahead and recited her scripted sales pitch. I then told her I wasn't interested, apologized, said thanks and hung up.
Fast forward to today. I get a call, and see the caller ID... Private again. It can't be mom, because she doesn't have her phone set up right now (she moved to another apartment, and she hasn't changed her phone line to there). I pick up and some guy who sounds right out of a game show speaks. *uh oh* He asks for a "Mr. David... Seelva". Yes, he couldn't even say my name right. I say that he's speaking. He then starts to go off about a wonderful health insurance opportunity called... I forget. So I just... hang up. No words, no nothing. Just hung up.
I get another call. It's from a private number; him again. I'm not surprised. I pick up, then hang up immediately.
He calls again. I YELL "I'M NOT INTERESTED" and hang up. No more calls.
So I go about my errands and think, "Well, if the US has a Do Not Call Registry, I wonder if Mexico has one too?" So after a bit of Googling, I find out, hey, we do! I'm going to call them tomorrow morning after I come back from the post office. I'm the guy in our phone line contract, so they're going to have to listen to me.
Anyway... I did find something interesting while searching for our Do Not Call Registry. I stumbled upon the Revista del Consumidór's website (a government-published magazine which tests several products and warns about possible scams, among other stuff - it's been published for over twenty years!) and I found... this.
Aheh. It's a lot crackier than you think. A LOT. Available on PDF format, for free, no strings attached. There's two earlier issues, which are just as bad. And they're free to redistribute. Which means... yes, you'll see these with a translation and commentary on Scans Daily as soon as my bandwidth gets reset, which should be on Sunday. Tee hee.
Yeah. I'm done now.