Monday, February 26

Cool Deal

Ok, I don't usually do this kind of thing, but a buddy got me to check out gaminglagoon.com, said he already had gotten a free Microsoft 1600 Point card for his XBOX 360.

So I tried it out, during the Daytona 500 I managed to get 15 points. Last Monday during lunch I ran up another 5 points and got a Free Microsoft 1600 Point Card two days later shipped directly to my house from Amazon.

Just fooling around at lunch and during yesterday's NASCAR race I ran up another 40 points. Two more cards headed my way. Pretty easy stuff. They also have prizes for Wii, World of Warcraft and some other stuff. You can also get XBOX Live memberships and accessories.

So, here is what you do: Setup a free e-mail account, at Hotmail, Gmail or some other service that you want to be able to throw away. Sign up at gaminglagoon.com with your real info and the dummy e-mail address. Make sure your name, address and phone are good at Gaming Lagoon, they won't send you prizes otherwise. Now, start doing the surveys, follow the directions below the links at Gaming Lagoon carefully, using the dummy address. Some of the sites will send a confirmation e-mail before you can click completed and get the award. Get your 20 points and get a free card. Get 40 points and get a free wireless controller. Simple.

Use this link to get started: Gaming Lagoon

Update 2-28-2007:

I got two free 1600 Points Cards from Gaming Lagoon today!



Thanks Gaming Lagoon!

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Thursday, February 22

Drinking Time!

Every year my boss' wife goes to Las Vegas to see her parents. Why he doesn't go to Vegas is beyond my comprehension, but he takes a few days off by himself when she goes. So last night he had the house to himself, and he had the whole IT Department over for beers and pizza. It was a great time, here is a view from his back porch, he over looks Clear Lake, which is on Galveston Bay here just south of Houston.



After drinking way too many beers and eating way too much pizza, I made my way home. As I pulled into the subdivision, I saw someone had just put their Christmas tree out in the trash. Shit, I thought I was lazy.

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Saturday, February 17

Alien Abduction...

Ok, so I'm in the office today, working on some projects. Figured while I am waiting on the Blue Donwload Bar to scroll by on a computer I am updating, I would go through my receipts and get my expenses done.

And I found this odd receipt:



Hmm...

Cajun Grill in Alpharetta, Georgia. Says I was there on January 17, 2007.

While I have been to Alpharetta, Georgia, it has been quite some time.

So I looked up the phone number in Google and found the following link:

North Point Mall Directory

So I checked with my wife, my boss and my co-workers. All were quite certain that I had not left Texas in quite some time.

Great, now I'm being abducted by aliens during the day as well as the night.

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Wednesday, February 14

Make them stop!

The users are trying to drive me insane today!

First, someone came back from vacation, cannot remember their username or password so it is an emergency for me to tell them their username and password.

Then we get an e-mail that an entire site is down and start scrambling to get it back up. Everything we test is working. So I call the user, only his laptop is down, he disconnected it from the network improperly yesterday, I have him reboot, and he starts working, so I chew him out and explain that just because your computer does not work does not mean your entire site is down.

Come back from lunch, a teller is reporting that all the teller machines at her site are not working. Do some testing, hers is the only one not working. Told her to reboot and never heard back, so I guess that worked.

Three emergencies today that were not emergencies, just stupid user tricks.

Ow, quit it, my head hurts.

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Tuesday, February 6

Take that Mo' Fo'!



That's right Bitch! I'm the goddamn Guest Of The Day at the Comfort Suites Airport North San Antonio tonight! I can park in the reserved place, I got a cool tumbler, and I continue to kick ass and take names everywhere I go these days.

I'm in San Antonio for three days, opening a new branch. We're up to 20 branches now! We kick ass!

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Saturday, February 3

Why Ticketmaster Sucks

Ok, they have been advertising the Monster Truck rally on TV ceaselesly all week on TV around here. So I thought, I'll get my brother, his two boys, my boy and we will all go. The ads say Kids Tickets just $5.00


So I go to the Ticket Master site, select the tickets and go to the find seats screen. Guess what, there is a "Convienence Fee" charge that is higher than the price of the kids tickets. How the hell is that "Convienent"? Advertising cheap ticktets that double in price when you order them should be considered fraud.


What a bunch of criminals.


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