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Omg, AT&T edge in Santa cruz is just insanely slow, I wonder if something is broken.

So nobody ever called me last week, just the useless auto message. However today I got somebody on the phone who seemed useful. They took are finical information and claim to be sending us paper work to sign signifying that it’s true etc then that will go to the negotiator (insert bad movie pun here). So something might start to happen, I’m not super optimistic but at least there will be a paper trial now. They also offered us some kind of forbearance program but after 6 months we would owe a 9K balloon payment. Hellow bankruptcy :p.

UniWar for iphone rocks!

Off to the Ducky Derby, ah late.

Mmmmmm Bao buns for lunch, then taking the kids over to the carnival fund raiser at Nimitz. Kaily on the floor with kaden making him giggle

I find valve’s claim of two new versus maps in the DLC to be pretty disingenuous. Retool two existing maps to work with that play mode is *not* the same as two new maps. That survival mode is fun (but man is it hard). I’m glad they released but lets call a spade a spade already.

Last weeks check up went fine he is a bit over 14 pounds and about 30 percentile for size. He has turned into quite the little flirt and is definitely easting well.

Well I guess today was a step forward in talking to Wells Fargo. Nobody could tell me anything about what is going on with the home owner stabilization program other then we probable qualify. However I also was not transferred to some unrelated company in Canada like last week. The cherry on top was that they took my information (again) and promised that somebody from Wells Fargo would call me back within 24-48 hours who would be able to tell me all about the program (I’m not sure what that means but looking forward to finding out). So maybe, just maybe this means the ball will nudge forward this week.

EDIT: LOL, I just got a automated prerecorded call from Wells Fargo saying they are announcing the program and to go to their website (which of course it still totally useless and has no way to get a engagement going). I sure hope that was not the call I was promised, but rather a positive sign prelude.

I have to say this constant redirecting people to web site that is never updated and contains no useful information accept for a self assessment and no way to take action or get updates or start a engagement is pretty lame and and very we are big company 1.0 go away. What a wast and a fundamentally failed way to communicate with customers in trouble chomping at the bit to real information.

Cobort pay loans (could be housing loans IMO): “…dragged into the anemic fire fly flicker of nominal federal oversight…t”

Searching for 5th Check Gecko book for Kaily. There was much drama when I didn’t have it last night.

Happy Easter folks! Kaily had a rocking egg hunt, pictures to follow.

Easter egg making today

Groovy new Dressden book just showed up “Turn Coat” there goes my next couple days

Mello Birthday for charise, we just had a nice family lunch and I got her ring fixed. Oh and there was ice cream cake of course.

So I took another stab at Wells Fargo today, 3rd call it’s now been almost two months since the program was launched… I thought they might have at least some basic time lines for customer contact put together by now. After first line agent made a series of excuses for why it was so slow to roll out he mentioned he had a special number he could transfer me too that would be able to help me a bit more.
So he transfers me, turns out the Wells Fargo phone system is having some um interesting problems. They keep transferring all us stressed out home owners to some company (ATA I think he said) in Canada, that has nothing to do with WF or loans or well anything.
The company has been complaining to Wells Fargo for a while now but they don’t seem to interested in fixing the problem (according to the guy at ATA)
Minor technical problem or Wells Fargo just not wanting to deal with this program despite sticking their hand into the TARP treat bag….? It’s probable of course a goof ,but it sure feels like (giving the long rollout and total lack of solid info) a ongoing blow off from them .

My thoughts on the new time warner bandwidth caps

Gamers with jobs has a pretty good article breaking it down for gamers.

This issue only exists because of a horrible lack of competition. Cable and teleco’s where gifted with huge public trusts and right of ways and have been raping the US ever since in one fashion or another. The cure is constant and real competitive threat and forced asset sharing to smash monopolistic tactics (caps being only the tip of the iceberg). That being said caps, while annoying (and these are VERY annoying) are really aimed at big contented purveyors (google is of course target number one) to force them to subsides and pay for right of way (and then priority). Pipe providers as usual (as the RIAA or MPAA due) are vastly over valuing their end of the proposition and thus feel empowered (by a lack of competition nipping at their heels) to try and hold the world hostage for as much of the pie as they can get, and if a few consumers or producers get smashed in the crossfire oh well.

Add hock statistic, I’m a average silly cone head valley kind of geek and gamer, last month my house hold usage was
* March 2009 (Incoming: 54814 MB / Outgoing: 20035 MB)
So, about 53 Gigs and change, so well bellow comcasts 250GB, and just over the $54 40GB cap. I pay around $49 I think for comcast. So while it’s not clear what small overages would range or continual overage it’s obvious these tiers are being broken up in a silly (anti med-heavy user) way. That said I don’t think it’s going to be that big of a deal for most users. Though studies of certainly shown that caps slow innovation and usage due to the mind share effect (everybody remember when your cel phone minutes where metered tightly?), but again that is about squeezing the big guys.

Just like the telco’s feel they missed out on e-mail and now avenge themselves upon us all with insane costs for SMS (a pretty much free b channel transmission for them) cable now wants to change the video story and be the IP pipe and be the content guys instead of all those annoying them that give their pipes value (never mind they have utterly failed in the past at this, they always end up trying to rebuild AOL).

Only wide spread and significant cross market competition will save us from this crap and enforce a natural order of open services and neutral pipes.

How nice, blue cross decided not to pay Kaily’s mandator (for school) 5 year checkup/vacines. Man they ’suck’ worst insurance ‘ever’.

I have added some new (recent) Kaden pictures to the Gallery.

Woot! Amazon says the new Dresden book just shipped!

Kaily primed for 40 minutes and changed cloths 3 times befor her playdate this morning. I think I might be in trouble… :/