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« Reply #7755 on: September 03, 2011, 06:04:10 pm »

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« Reply #7756 on: September 04, 2011, 01:15:39 pm »
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Holy crap that was cool.
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« Reply #7757 on: September 04, 2011, 09:30:38 pm »
Had a face palm moment today.

So for years I've always looked at my Verizon wireless bill and never paid much attention to the $13+ dollars in surcharges/fees after the initial wtf the first time I ever started paying for my own cellphone. Today however, I was looking over our bills and noticed that in the past few months our (joint bill under wife's name) cell phone bill has fluctuated by about one dollar plus or minus over the past few months even though we haven't gone over minutes/data/texts. Upon further examination, it turns out that it's just differences in fees/surcharges. No big deal, I don't have much control over those. However, something caught my eye that I had never really realized before - there are line items for the DC Gross Receipts Surcharge and DC 911 Surcharge.

This was interesting, because my wife and I have lived in Maryland for nearly two years.

Billing address they had on the profile was correct. However, there is apparently a separate category for service address. More interesting, the service address was not actually our last place, but a townhouse my wife, then girlfriend, lived in in 2006....

While I'm glad to have corrected the error and hopefully now save some money, I am a little baffled by the situation. I think the problem is I'm trying to apply logic to the people at the Verizon store.

I suppose I should be grateful they figured out that she at least moved to DC given that our cellphones are still 412 (Pittsburgh) area codes.

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« Reply #7758 on: September 04, 2011, 09:47:55 pm »
I'll be in the Orlando, FL area next week and our at Kennedy SC for the delta2 launch. I'l be pretty busy but if anyone is out that way and wants to join up for drinks let me know.

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« Reply #7759 on: September 06, 2011, 11:45:13 am »
I'm shipping out for LA tomorrow for job training.  Won't be back until late Friday night, and I really wish I had a laptop so I could play some LoL while at the hotel.

Prepare for possible drunk text alerts while I visit Lits.

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« Reply #7760 on: September 06, 2011, 05:28:53 pm »
WINNING@MANIC! PS... I just got back into town this morning... had a great Burn! I meditated at the temple, I encouraging my friends to visit the Orgy Dome, I danced all night to some really sick dubstep, I rode a fully functional Pirate land ship with some hot sailors, I fell in love with no less than four fire spinners, and I even saw a guy with a 6 gauge Prince Albert. Damn I love Burning Man.

Did I miss anything cool?

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« Reply #7761 on: September 06, 2011, 06:33:20 pm »
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...I even saw a guy with a 6 gauge Prince Albert.


Owww.  Thats all I have to say about that.

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« Reply #7762 on: September 06, 2011, 06:41:56 pm »
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Did I miss anything cool?


I don't think anything we've done in the past week can compete with "Orgy Dome".

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« Reply #7763 on: September 06, 2011, 07:03:15 pm »
It may not be until next year, but I think my next larger purchase will be this...


I think the green will suit me well. :)

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« Reply #7764 on: September 06, 2011, 07:52:21 pm »
So now your getting a Planet Eclipse Etek 3? What happened to the other marker you just bought? I'm definitely digging the green.


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« Reply #7765 on: September 06, 2011, 08:55:36 pm »
The pmr is nice, but eats gas, has no lpr, doesn't looks as nice, can be a process to program, doesn't have as many upgrade options, and doesn't hold value as well... basically, it's a great mid level marker, but I think I want to upgrade to higher quality.

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« Reply #7766 on: September 07, 2011, 02:50:32 am »
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Did I miss anything cool?


I don't think anything we've done in the past week can compete with "Orgy Dome".


*Chuckles* Yeah, can't really beat seeing another man's penis next to you, hovering dangerously close...

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« Reply #7767 on: September 08, 2011, 12:12:02 pm »
I'm name-dropping while in LA.

We may have some guys at Industrial Light & Magic going through the recruitment challenge soon.

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« Reply #7768 on: September 08, 2011, 12:28:04 pm »
Dude that's pretty sweet.

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« Reply #7769 on: September 08, 2011, 12:48:05 pm »
Way to represent!

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