Thanks for nothing

So my Dufisthenics blog site which is hosted on GoDaddy has been running slowly for awhile.  Usually that is due to some plug in behaving badly so I have been disabling and deleting them.  Despite my efforts the site still is lethargic.  So I figured what the heck, I’ll just call GoDaddy and ask them to check the site to see if they saw anything else going on.

So I call them up and get a woman on the phone in a couple minutes.  I explain to her the problems I was having and asked if I could get some help.  “Absolutely!” she said.  All it takes is me agreeing to a $79 diagnostic charge. WTF, the $300 a year I am already paying doesn’t qualify me for site diagnostics??  Evidently it does not.

I said no thanks.  The woman did say she could send me an email with generic WordPress troubleshooting information and it was free.  Wow thanks a lot, a free Google search, how generous.

I had another disappointing interaction earlier in the week when I contacted a company named Hisense regarding the Chromebook laptop I bought in May.  I only used it a handful of times and now the battery is completely dead.  It will not run for one second on battery power.  It only will work while plugged in.  When I contacted Hisense they said since it was a refurbished unit it only had a 90 day warranty.

I knew the warranty duration was short but hoped the representative would step out of the box and offer remediation since a battery should not croak so quickly.  I expressed this desire to them.  The response I got back was basically “too bad, so sad”.

Do you think Mitt Romney feels a bit “punked” right about now?  He got on his knees and went on two dates with Donald only to be shunned and replaced by Putin’s good buddy Rex Tillerson.  Poor Mitt.  I would say his political career is officially over.  You can’t talk as much shit about someone as he did and then come running with your pants around your knees when a cabinet position is dangled in front of your nose by the same individual.

Tomorrow is my 49th birthday.  I can hardly wait, for it to be over…