They didn’t have about 40% of what we wanted. And they don’t carry Parkay. I mean, really. Parkay.

… with lightning, thunder, etc. But not very many produce rain.

We’ve been treated to some interesting light shows the past few days, but nary a drop of rain.

AKA Sophia Petrillo, AKA Mom of “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot,” passed away on July 22.

Things aren’t looking good for the Golden Girls reunion show…

Also dead this year that I didn’t know about: Brad Renfro, who was in Apt Pupil and Sleepers.

Source: IMDB

So I got the fan hung up, then noticed I had a leftover piece. I picked it up, and it was the add-on part that lets you operate the fan with a remote control. Important here because there is only one switch and I don’t want to mess around with those chains. (And because a remote control makes everything cooler.)

So I look at the instructions (a separate piece of paper) and they clearly say “If you are installing this kit in a new fan, use these directions instead of the directions in the box for everything after step 2.” Sigh.

That lead to dismantling the previous day’s work and starting anew. But the @#%$@#$ remote kit has to fit in a tiny little space at the top of the fan, and there is no margin whatsoever for error.

Well if you know the way I do home improvement projects, you know that I live exclusively within that margin of error. So, suffice it to say, the original install took about an hour. The re-install with the remote kit took about 3. We also had some near drops of the whole fan unit for good measure. Whoops-a-daisy!

We’re back in business now, but I really made an error in judgment locating my new desk right below that fan. This could be a future disaster waiting to happen.

Oh well, in the meantime I have a really cool remote controlled ceiling fan.

According to this article.

I have a better idea- instead of responding to the roughly 1% of people so pissed off that they feel the need to vent online (and ignoring the 99% who either don’t have a blog or who have been beaten into submission by years of crappy service) – how about you invest some of the billions of dollars that you get from being a legal monopoly and fix the institutional problems with your customer service?

It’s not that you don’t know you have a problem. You routinely show up at the bottom of the list for worst customer service. Here again- from just a few days ago.

Oh yeah- note about this specific article- we DON’T WANT WEB SELF HELP. We want the people we pay ungodly amounts of money to on a monthly basis to DO THEIR JOBS and help us. (That would be your insultingly named “Customer Account Executives,” for one.) If I wanted to help myself I’d go the the grocery store (or Home Depot or Ikea or Wal-Mart) and use that obnoxious self checkout.

And as if you needed more proof, this poor woman spoke for us all.

So to sum up (again) – Comcast is the worst company on earth. One guy trying to address issues that bubble up on the internet is like trying to stand on the beach and hold back the ocean.

(h/t Chris)

He’s a shoe fairy (no gay joke intended). Check it out!

Also notable appearances on Sesame Street. Captain Jean-Luc Piccard! In fact, he is quoted as having said, “I think my appearance in The Simpsons and an appearance that I did on Sesame Street – in praise of the letter B – were perhaps the two most distinguished bits of work that I’ve done in the United States.”

Stewart has been on at least twice. The “b” one mentioned above is good, but this one is better!

Source: Dave Ryan, Youtube, and IMDB

And I’m only partially concerned that it will fall on my head one day.

She sticks her paw down into my glass, then licks her paw to get the water.

I keep telling her that the water in her dish is for her, and the water in my glass is for me, but does she listen???

But he became a naturalized US citizen in 1998.

He also hosted several other quiz shoes (including a 1976 game called Double Dare- not that Double Dare) before Jeopardy.

Anybody remember Classic Concentration?

Source: Wikipedia – inspired by an Alex Trebek commercial on GSN

Who knew there was such a thriving online community for this sort of thing?

Source: Ikea Hacker