So, the local Rogers store got some iPhones in today. Stacy and I went up to grab two. We got Stacy’s without too much hassle (cost an extra 25$ but not too bad), she’s a proud new iPhone owner.
Getting one for me, well, thats another story. When we got Stacy’s it used our ‘upgrade’ credits from Rogers. The credits reduced a 150$ service charge to 25$. So, trying to get mine we didn’t have any of those credits so the iPhone would cost me 350$. That’s more then half again the price of the 200$ phone. In order to get the iPhone for the 200$ normal price I have to wait until my account gets its credits topped back up. Which will be a few months, which conveniently for Rogers is when the 6gig/30$ deal is no longer available so I’d have to get the 100$ plan to get the same amount of data.
I tried to explain to them that by not getting the phone I won’t be signing up to their 30$/month data plan. So, in 6 months they would have made their 150$ plus extra back. That didn’t fly, with the iPhone they won’t make exceptions.
The really stupid part, this is all because I’m an existing Rogers customer. If I was a new signup I’d get the 200$ price, no problem. Because I’ve been a Rogers customer for a few years I get screwed.
Hows that for customer satisfaction?
So, Stacy, myself and a couple of friends went to see Evil Dead - The Musical tonight.
I must say it was fan … wait for it … wait … wait for it … tastic. It was the right mix of singing, quotes and blood to keep the audience laughing.
Deaths a bitch …. a stupid bitch
If you get a chance, go see this show. It’s just been extended in Toronto until June 14th so get your tickets. Oh, and if you don’t want to get bloody, don’t sit in the first two rows. Some of those people were pretty wet by the end of the show.
Again, it’s been a while. Once you drop off the blogging it becomes a lot harder to pick it up again. I finally got around to uploading some pictures to flickr that go back to my Seattle trip in January.
Anyway, what have I been up too? Well, there has been a few work based trips and Sahba and I went and spoke at CarolinaCon and NotACon about the Exploit-Me tools. Both cases were a lot of fun. Sadly we had to fly out early on the Saturday so we missed a lot of NotACon. I believe the video of the NotACon talk will be online at somepoint. It was filmed by the guys from Media Archives.
So, Stacy and I went out for a little cultural exercise last night. There was a one night only showing of MacHomer playing at Massey Hall. It sounded like a fun evening, how can you go wrong combining Shakespeare and The Simpsons?
Damn, were we ever right.
The show is fantastic. If you ever get a chance you should go. The voices he does are really good, a few were weak but it doesn’t detract from the show. The mannerisms are what makes everything work. Hunched over for Burns, reeling for Barney. Really well done.
So, if you get a chance, and MacHomer comes to a city near you go, for the love of all that is donuty, go.
I’ve been lax again. Fallen by the wayside. In dereliction of my duties. Failed. Flopped. Flunked. Or, depending on how you look at it, I just haven’t posted in a while.
I ended up spending about five weeks in Seattle doing some work stuff. Flew back to Ontario for a few of those weekends which makes it a bit tiring in the long run. Was an interesting trip. Seattle is definitely a good town, I can see why Stacy liked it so much when she was there last summer. It’s very different to go to bars down there were 90% of the beer on tap is a local microbrew. Spent a lot of time sampling the different beers from around the area. I was a big fan of the Roslyn and the Old Seattle.
On most other fronts I haven’t done too much. Been playing video games, I’ve suddenly got a back log with Turok (thanks Owen), Lost Odyssesy (thanks Stacy) and Rockband (thanks me) all on board at the moment. A backlog of older games I’m still playing as well. Doing another run through of Assassins Creed for some of the achievements I missed the first time ’round.
Rockband has proven to be a lot of fun. Stacy and I are playing through with me on drums and her signing. She cheated while I was in Seattle and played through easy as the singer, you know, to rub it in my face that she’s better then me. I’m just waiting for the day she starts doing karaoke.
We’ve made it up to season 6 of Buffy which we’ll hopefully start watching tonight. Season 5 wasn’t too bad, it was starting to drag a bit by the end and man the bad chick was a bad actor.
Other then that, well we’ll see how long it takes me to write the next post.
