I'm Baaack!

Whew! It's been a while since I've used the computer. We have Verizon as our provider and we have a 5kg ? limit. Well, as mentioned before I've found a couple of places that post online novels and stories. I got wrapped up in a couple of multi part novels that used up a significant portion of our Internet allotment and then Microsoft took over to do some "upgrades" and tied up the service for HOURS.
  Cherry got a new phone and with Verizon's new integrated data plan we now have 6 whatevers of service. Not that we really need it. This is the first time we have exceeded our limit. But, anyway we now have more time, unlimited text and some other electronic goodies that they entice you with.


Here's the latest rant on my disability ruling. I got a determination letter on my appeal for a denied disability claim. Wait for it, DENIED. WTF? After being told I was a very credible witness, being told I was unemployable I was then told that by letter that some of my testimony was discounted because my doctor failed it put some information in my medical records. The Judge also discounted his professional witness' finding that said I was unemployable. I am not disabled because I use only ONE cane, I turned down additional treatment (that I don't have the money to pay for), I was turned down because my DR, didn't write in the record that my medications cause me to fall asleep for a couple hours every day, I was turned down due to my slim current medical record(the one that I can barely afford to pay for) and the finally I was turned down due to my...AGE! It is illegal for any one to use age as a basis for anything but the government can use age as a determining  factor? I was turned down because the state doctors they sent me to lied and omitted information from the exams they did on me. All this from a man that has been paid by the taxpayer for most of his life and shows up in court dripping with gold chains, a large gold watch with giant gold chain bracelet and finally a pair of glasses that were the most outrageous that I have ever seen. I had to get semi-dressed up for this appearance yet the ruling official can come in dressed like a successful pimp?
Now, I have to go to a job retraining program. I have worked at everything from a janitor to a project manager of a ten million dollar project. And they want to retrain me? For what? The issue at hand is no one wants to hire a white man approaching fifty, that walks on a cane, takes handfuls of medications and has a background that usually exceeds their own and is considered un-insurable. I have worked since I was 15, I have paid into the system since I was 18. I have a broken down body due, in part, to my hard working past. Yet I am denied any of the benefits that I have accrued. Am I mad? What do you think?

Verizon STILL Sucks

We have been without Internet service for a coupla days. Thanks to our 5th Verizon Five Spot. This one has some ghosts inside that want password numbers that no one has assigned to it. Sometimes, like today, I can get it to work by not using the connection thingamajig but instead use the generice ATT wireless clicky thing. Anyway Unit Number 6 is on its way here. Verizon assures us it is made by a different manufacturer and all our problems will go away. Sounds kinda like unicorn farts smells like pixie dust to me.

How Does Verizon Suck?

We have been customers of Verizon for many years maybe as much as 20. When we moved to this new home the only economical way to get Internet service was through Verizon, using one of their 5 Spot devices. We are now on our 5th on in just over a year. After Cherry was on the phone with a support tech for over an hour on Saturday evening ending with Verizon evening agreeing to send us ANOTHER 5 Spot. We hooked it up and sure as shit it would not work. She spent another hour Monday evening with them. They finally got the thing to work. Tech finally said that the local towers are being overloaded and doesn't know of any plans to put additional ones up. So bright and early this morning I plot may ass in front of the computer, turn the wireless device on, give it a couple of ticks and opened the manger. That program wanted a pass word number to log on. I entered the number on the back of the device and got a message saying in effect go fuck yourself. So After leaving it alone all day I snuck up on it, removed its back and removed the battery and Sim card. I let it set for a while re-install the parts, opened the manager, turned the thing on and Holy Cow!, we have the Internet. This unit is a 3G model. Verizon is a couple months away from having 4G in this town. Yet you can buy the new 4G unit. After 5 Of the POS 5 Spots you would think they would hand us a new 4G unit, right? Wrong! After this one goes tits up and believe me it will, we are cancelling Verizon Internet and most likely their phone service as well.

So, in parting, I say this, Verizon, go fuck your corporate selves. Take every broken 5 Spot you have and lube them with the sweat and frustration of your past clients and firmly ram them up your corporate asses. We have paid you morons good money for 20 years and you respond with this kind of customer service. What does one of the new 4G units cost you? What 45-50 cents in Malaysia or China or what ever shit hole you have them made in. You would rather keep sending us these non-functional units over and over. Thanks for Nothing.