When your internet provider has errors on their website

C’mon CenturyLink. Get your shit together. When you have errors on your “We’re having technical difficulties” page, it makes me think you are having difficulties because you didn’t QA and have poor attention to detail....

PAY NOW AMBETTER NOW!

I’m not even logged into the site, and I get this pop up. Freaked me out, I thought my medical was unpaid. It’s like a horror movie jump scare. I didn’t even know how to get past it for a moment. It seemed so threatening, because I’m terrified of...

tax1099.com plugin error

Welp, it’s that time of year again. sending out the 1099s. If you use Tax1099.com and use their low-budget plugin you might run into this error. In order to install their plugin, you first need to remove last years version. I did this, then installed the new version. This...

Why is DIY so hard?

OP asked: “ I am trying to replace a bathroom light switch. Its had two switches, one of which did nothing, the other turned both fan and light on/off. I turned off the breaker, pulled the faceplate and switch off, put the wires into the new switches and went...

Verizon data is throttled, and stuck in Safety Mode

Why does Verizon’s customer service suck? I pay a premium for their service. Is there a more expensive phone service I can buy, where I can talk to a human? Dealing with Verizon this week felt like I had signed up for a 2010 Cricket Phone. This week I...

Microsoft, Make it Wild. I need it in the *

Dear Microsoft, 20 years. 20 years is a long time. It’s as if our kid went to college and we still haven’t gotten divorced. So that has to count for something, right? I mean I sold off my Apple stock in the late 90s for you. It’s been 20...

Cyndi Lauper’s “Time after Time” is about Time Travel

I’m on the 40th or 50ths loop of Cyndi Lauper’s seminal 80s hit, Time after Time, when the tears start. Maybe it’s because it is Sunday night, or that my meds are off, or that it is winter and the short days aren’t good for me. But it feels...