Day: 23 August 2004

The Day With Morgan

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I spent most of the day today with my niece Morgan. My sister had tickets to a concert so I baby sat and my parents came over. We all went to dinner and then I watched her till my sister and brother in law got back from the concert. That kid is so much fun to be with. She just finds new ways to crack me up.

I am not so happy about being alone with Morgan. I am always afraid I will break her in some way. What if she cries and I can’t make her stop crying? What if I don’t understand what she is asking for? If she was older it would be easer. I am just being nervous, I know. Either way I still have fun with her, but I am just nervous when no one else is around that she will be ok. She went to bed relatively quick. She was not happy about sleep time, but once she was down she fell right to sleep.

Mike and my sister just came to get her. I am now off to sleep myself. Man it is getting late…

More T-Mobile Stuff

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It is ironic that I wrote good things about T-Mobile customer service the other day. Gizmodo wrote very negative things about the same group of T-Mobile Customer Service people. I read that site all the time, and I can totally see what he wrote about happening. I have had bad experiences with plenty of companies. It just goes to show you that two people can have totally different experiences with the same company. It is and will always be the people that make a company good or bad.

I for one had a billing problem for 3 months early this year. After several calls they finally fixed the issue. Twice T-Mobile said it was fixed, and then was not. To my credit I keep dates, customer service rep id #’s and one line summaries of what we discuss. I know it sounds like over kill, but at work I have had problems I was working through and if I didn’t have data like that I would have been screwed. I take that lesson learned and have applied it for personal use. it has worked for me. But even then it took months to fix the problem. The difference was the problem I had was in fact fixed, and during the period of time the billing issue went on, I got credits each month for the mistake.

The Bar Scene

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Last night I went out and checked out the NYC bar scene. I met up with Gus & Vjay. We went to several places in SOHO, and the meat packing district. I honestly don’t remember the name of any of the places we went to. I normally don’t do the late night bar scene. It is fun, but I usually can’t stay awake on an 8 hour bar hopping binge. I have a good time, but I hurt the next day. I need my sleep. I normally get afraid that I will get a migraine if I stay up till 4 or 5AM. Today that fear rang true. I had to take 2 butabital’s throughout the day, but at least I was able to function.

The bar’s were cool. We went to a mix of places. From the nice old fashioned pub that was relatively quiet, to the swanky and busy club/bar’s. I am more a pub kind of guy, but I appreciate the fact that there are plenty of beautiful women at the clubs.

I got home at like 3AM, but realized I had voice mail from work regarding a problem. I ended up on the phone till 4AM with remote hands restarting a server. I slept till noon today.

All in all a fun night, but not something I would do every weekend.