KyleBits

The story of my dead xbox, intertwined with someone’s attempt to (I believe) defraud Gamestop…

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I just got a fish tank back the other day. When I moved into the house, I had picked up a 100 gallon tank and gave the 44 gallon pentagon to my friend John. Now he’s moving back to Boston, so I get it back.

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For Christmas and New Years, I was in Kure Beach, NC, visiting my father and his wife Kathleen. My sister Heather, her husband Adam, and her 3 boys (Joshua, Elijah, and Joseph) made the trip up from Florida for the same time period. I’m trying something new this time … rather than host the pictures on server, I’m using Google’s PicasaWeb. If it works out well, I’ll move all my pics to their server.

The trip to the go kart place was for Elijah’s birthday. Most of these pictures are from Christmas day, with most of the rest from New Year’s Eve. We had a great time, and made some great friends … some of which I hope to see again soon…

Click here for the pictures.

I’m moving my office from the physical Oak Lawn address into my spare room at home, since I spend so much time on the road with this client I’ve had for the last 2 years. To make life simpler (ha!), I called “Dr. Move” to make the move. I only have a small office, and really, with proper padding, it could be moved in a pickup truck. But, because of their pricing structure, I needed to pay for their 20′ truck in order to get the free packing services they offer. I discussed this with the Dr. Move sales person, and laughed over the ridiculousness of the situation, having to pay for the bigger truck.

Today, Dr. Move showed up (btw, if you’re wondering why I keep saying Dr. Move, it’s so Google will pick this blog entry up so people get warned appropriately) an hour late, with no packing materials. The mover in charge called to the dispatch center, and the woman I had spoken to was not there. They decided they’d need to come back tomorrow, with materials, and they’d need to charge me more for the wasted trip. Uh… I don’t think so.

I argued a bit with whoever was in the Dr. Move sales office this morning, and finally just canceled it. They were jerking me around. So, what happened after that? Ten minutes later, the original sales woman called me to yell at me over the misunderstanding. Very classy. After yelling for 3 minutes, with me unable to get a word in edgewise, she said “there’s no point in talking about this, you’ve made up your mind.” I told her if we were going to talk about it, it would be a 2 way street, with me actually getting to say something, but yes, she’s correct: Dr. Move is not doing my move, they’re out.

So, if you’re doing a move in Dallas, do yourself a favor … do NOT call Dr. Move.

Sounds like a superhero name, doesn’t it? It just describes my home right now. Moving things around and trying to get better network coverage.

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Now that I’ve got a little more time, I’ll fill you in on a few more poker-related stories from the trip.

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So… it’s been a while since I last posted. Here’s the deal. Just as I was gathering up my crap for check out yesterday morning (Thursday), Delta called and left an automated message that there was an update to my flight. I called them back to discover that my flight out had been canceled due to mechanical failure, and the next available flight out was 8AM the next day (today), going through Orlando. Robyn’s flight was rescheduled for 7AM, going through Atlanta. I’m not sure why I didn’t get the Atlanta flight, since that would be easier, but whatever.

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Wow. I’m a little stunned. I was playing great poker and had the biggest stack at the table, when the following happened.

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Well, I made it to level 3, at least. My cards were just choppy, and fell such that I won small pots but lost big ones. I don’t really feel like I made many big mistakes, the cards just weren’t with me.

Robyn is still in … Kick some ass, Robyn… I’ll be at the craps table.

Ok, now that I’ve slept off the few beers I needed to numb the pain of that late exit…

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