Worked my booty off this weekend to get Chris’ new design up for Flawd Clothing. I suggest you all check out the site and let me know what you think— from a technical and/or design, etc. point of view. And buy some shirts while you’re at it

http://inquisitivesensitive.blogspot.com/

You should all check it out, and add her to your feed reader. I know she’s got quite a bit to say…

I’m thankful for my amazing wife, Heather. She supports me in every way, even when I’m being a bit eccentric.

I’m also thankful for Heather’s family, my own family, and our friends, for being so supportive of us and helping us through the engagement, wedding and our marriage.

I thought I’d throw in a cute picture of Joshua (my sister’s son), too. They all live in Arizona now, so I don’t get to see the little guy as much anymore. I certainly miss him. It was only a short while ago he was born premature, but pulled through and look at him now! What a cutie.

What are you thankful for?

Okay, I messed up. This past month, especially during the honeymoon, I was using my cell phone’s internet client to check my e-mail, etc… I didn’t think it’d be that big of a deal. Maybe $10–$15 worth of charges, right? I get my latest Verizon cell phone bill and it’s almost $100 more than usual. Apparently I used 6 megabytes of data, and Verizon wants $97 for it. What.. the.. f—k?

To rub salt in the wound, Verizon offers a pre-paid “data block” of 10 megabytes for $25. Or unlimited data usage for $40. But of course, they can’t retroactively add these plans to your phone if the bill has been generated, according to them. Which is total baloney. According to the woman I spoke to, if I had changed my plan last week (to have the data block), I wouldn’t have had to pay this charge. Glorious!

I know the error is clearly on my side, but don’t you think they could have a little compassion for someone? The $95 for 6 megabytes is clearly raping the customer for no good reason, when compared to their other plans— that’s $15 per megabyte, compared to the pre-paid 10 megabyte block coming out to $4 a megabyte. Blah.

Also, looking at my phone bill, I noticed minutes deducted for calling voicemail. I was under the impression that calling your voicemail was always free with Verizon. Bzzzt. Wrong. According to Wikipedia (and other sources):

Verizon Wireless charges customers peak minutes if a user dials his/her voicemail during peak hours which is in contrast to its competitors. A customer may have mobile to mobile but will still be charged peak minutes for dialing his/her voicemail. Many customers are used to having free minutes when checking voicemail and are unaware that Verizon Wireless is deducting peak minutes.

Awesome!

Anyways, when our contract is up, Heather and I will most likely be finding another wireless provider.

Heather and I had to evacuate Ramona due to the recent Southern California wild fires. We’re safe, and our house is okay. Pray for everyone in this town, and in California, who might have suffered losses.

Heather and I joined together in Holy matrimony on October 13th, 2007. Amazing!

The honeymoon’s been a long week, and we’re still decompressing from it all. Expect a full update soon.

Until then, check out some of the wedding photos via my flickr account.

Just got a Samsung 22” LCD today, which is now my primary display. My older 20” Dell is now my secondary/side display.

And hence, the current state of my desk:

Wasn’t that fascinating?

Yes, when you think PETA, think naked girls:

You guys are real winners! You sure convinced me to join your group after that video…

Oh wait, you didn’t. This hamburger is tasty. Mmm mmm good.

Heather and I registered (on our wedding registry) for a Dyson vacuum cleaner, and my mother was generous enough to purchase it for us. Today was my first time using the vacuum, and it impressed the heck outta me. This picture says it all:

That’s almost four inches of solid dirt, along with hair, fluff, whatever sitting on top. Yuck. I knew my house was dirty, but not this dirty.

Definitely the best vacuum I’ve ever used/owned, and for $400, it better be  The wife-acceptance-factor was very low for this at first (due to the price), but she now sees just how good it is at what it does.

Verizon Wireless wants to sell your personal information to marketers. Make sure they can’t do that, call this number: 1–800–333–9956. I just did it, took about 5 minutes to opt out of both Heather and I’s cell phones, and it was all automated.

As a side note, it really upsets me that so many companies sell your information like that. The law should state that the consumer is by default opted-out..