Sometimes There Are Free Lunches....
I had a wise old baseball coach as a Calculus teacher, not a coach. If that's not a nerdy beginning to a story I don't know what is, anyway he had a big poster board by the door of his classroom that had in big hand written caps "NO FREE LUNCHES". For those of you not familiar with the term it means nothing in life is free there is always a catch, or you have to study to get the good grades, yada, yada, yada you don't get something for nothing. But I recently had one of the best customer service experiences in a long time maybe ever where this did not apply. Some of you know my iPod was acting up and not playing music from any of it's outlets, headphones or through a sound dock. I tried a couple things on the online troubleshooting guide but nothing seemed to work so I called the dreaded tech support line. I got to speak to a guy named Kenny Ferris (I knew I was in luck when he explained how to spell his name by saying "The same as Ferris Bueller's Day Off", sweet) who was absolutely beyond helpful. Once he figured out my problem by having me squeeze my iPod in a couple different places he said those dreadful words no technology owner wants to here, "Well your iPod is 2 years old and it only had a one year warranty..." BLAST right but the next statement threw me for a loop "BUT, we expect our products to last longer than than so we will send you a new one." Yeah you read that right and they paid for shipping, sent me a box with a return label on it to get mine and my new iPod here in less than a week. I might expect this kind of treatment from a smaller company interested in keeping business but this is Apple they sell like a gagillion iPods a year but they are still interested in the guy who bought his a couple years ago and something inside it broke, awesome.
Some friends of mine and I had a discussion about favorite vacation spots. Everyone in the group was supposed to rate vacations home spots from most to least favorite, these are just general but the categories were
- Beach House/Condo
- Mountain House
- Ski Lodge/Condo
- Lake House
Everyone's responses were interesting especially since mine and my wife's #1s were both completely different. Here's mine
- Mountains
- Skiing
- Beach
- Lake
I can't remember how my wife's went but I know beyond a doubt her #1 was the beach. This has always put us in quite a conundrum as far as vacations go knowing that neither of us is on our ideal vacation when we are together. But over the summer in the course of about 3 weeks we got hit both of our #1s. We got to spend an awesome weekend in Highlands, NC with some college friends and then two weeks later spend a weekend in Destin, FL with some of our amazing friends from right here in Montgomery. Drop me a comment and let me know your order of favorite vacations.
Also, I know this is a short blog for such a freaking long break but I figured out what keeps me from getting over the hump to blog and this is going to sound really nerdy BUT it's how many books I have to "review" I wait a little too long then I have to rush the blog so that I can get the books listed and not be too long. So I have decided to change up the blog a little bit. I am going to make the book review longer and once a week. I am a good 8 or so books behind so I shouldn't catch up with my reading for a while. I haven't decided what day for sure yet but I am thinking Tuesday. It's new book day at the book store so why wouldn't it be new book review day. So check back Tuesday for my first one "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". I will be doing personal blogs along the way as well so don't fret very loyal audience, but they will be sporadic as events/ideas happen.
