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Tailbones & voting

2008-11-04T09:00:00.000-08:00

My coccyx, tailbone has been hurting. I'm pregnant. Brad said it has been hurting because it is splitting apart. 'That's what happens to pregnant woman.' I told him I didn't think it was but he assured me it was. I called my sister who has a one year old; she said 'it splits apart and sometimes breaks off'. Brad didn't think we were funny. She did call me back later to confirm your pelvis muscles stretch. Brad said 'see I was right and sometimes it breaks'. I didn't reply and walked into the other room.

We are in Grand Cayman, I did absentee voting. Brad didn't vote but did tell me that the polls opened at midnight and were open till midnight. 12 hours he said. I disagreed with him over that too but instead of getting into a great debate I just looked it up on the Internet. He said race riots and world war 3 will start if Obama is elected which is why he wouldn't vote for Obama (or I guess anyone for that matter since he didn't vote). I guess we'll see what happens tonight.

Avis

2008-09-26T17:18:00.001-07:00

I rented a car from Avis this week. When I travel I usually rent from Hertz (love that their buses come the most frequent at the airport and that your car is waiting if you're a gold member) or National (love that you get to pick what car you want if you're part of Emerald club and skip the counter), but I was renting locally and Avis was the closest location that rented a Garmin. Hertz only rents Neverlost which I'm not crazy about.

The only car that they had available for rent was a convertible which was fine except I was driving to and from Toronto at a night and it ended up being quite loud inside. I rented a Garmin from them as well-- I picked up the car on Friday but wasn't driving to Toronto till Sunday. Sunday I got in the car, turned on the Garmin and was asked for a code. A code? I thought. Whenever I rented a Garmin from National I never had to enter a code. So I called the Avis 800 number since I new the local location was closed, they told me to look for a code on the contract (would have been nice if Avis had told me about the code), I entered the code several times and it didn't work. They said it was expired and told me to call the local rental location... since they weren't open they told me to call the closest location which was the airport location. I called and was on hold for an 1/2 hour before giving up and deciding I needed to get on the road. I ended up missing my exit in Toronto, calling Brad who guided me in... it took me about hour longer than it should have.

I called the local Avis location the next day, told them my story and they said 'well we could have just given you the code if we were open' and then they said that they'd look into. I said it would have been helpful if they had told me about the code and had entered it to see if worked.

When I rented the car, they said I could keep it for 5 days instead of 7 since it was the same cost. I called them on Thursday to see if it needed to be returned that day or Friday they said it had been due back Wed. I explained the situation and they said oh Friday.

When I brought the car in, I had to explain the Garmin situation again (the person working didn't know anything about it). He said 'why did you wait till Sunday to turn it on?' and 'the 800 number could have given you a code.' He said the best I can do is give you $15 off. At this point, I didn't care. It took him 15 minutest to try to find the code. Then he said I need to check the miles and gas, did you fill it up? And I said no and he said what? why not? I said because I had asked to bring it back empty. He said fine.

I'll try to avoid Avis in the future.

Blogger

2008-08-27T14:34:00.000-07:00

I really don't like the new blogger layout. I haven't used it a couple of years, and I'm just not feeling it. I tried to remove the bar on top but it doesn't like to go away. Maybe its time to look for something else... or just post manually.

Bill boards

2008-07-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

The other morning I was woken up to "I need you do to something for me. I need you to buy up all the billboards in Detroit. We're going to post a message to the automakers and tell them to build a hydrogen car."