Irony is the Shackles of Youth

Dear Expedia,

It is not funny to almost give me heart failure by not printing middle names on your itinerary. Because that makes me think I somehow forgot to give you our full names when booking our airline tickets. No full names printed on the airline tickets means we would not be able to fly for Thanksgiving.

Not cool, Expedia. Not cool.

No love,
Tsaiko

Porn spam bots seem to be hitting a bunch of the LJ communities with a link to/embedded movie file. I've seen it on at least two communities I'm on. Awesome. And like hell I'm going to click on it and possibly infect my computer.

( Cut for female problems )

Also...

Dear couple next door,

I'm really thrilled you have an active sex life and that you are comfortable enough to laugh with each other in bed. However, 2:30am is not a good time to have loud and - given that you tried and cracked up laughing four times, with only a minimum of headboard hitting the wall sounds - unfulfilling sex in a hotel. The only thing that kept me from banging on the wall was the fact that I saw a just married couple in the hotel lobby, and even I am not mean enough to ruin someone's honeymoon night. Just... 2:30am? Really? And if you simply must give into the urge, can you leave out the part where you yell "Oh baby!" exactly three times at the beginning? People are trying to sleep. And I am not a happy camper this morning.

No love,
Tsaiko

I hate the Federal Student Aid's loan service for one very important reason. Their "electronic debit account" program. On the surface, it sounds like a good idea. set it up so that every month the FSA gets to withdraw money from your account and get a discount on the interest rate you have to pay. They get a guarantee that they'll get paid on time and you get to pay less interest. Everyone wins. So what is the issue?

The issue is that when you set it up, the only option is to make minimal payments. That's it. No other options. Which means that when you sign up, if that's all you do, it'll take you 10 years to pay off the loan and you'll have paid the maximum amount of interest possible and still meet the terms of your loan.

But wait! In the terms of the loan agreement, there is no penalty for paying off a loan early. Which leads me to the next frustration: trying to figure out how to give these people more money than I owe them. There's actually two different ways and both of them suck. First, I can remember to log in every month and send more money as a one-time payment. Yeah, that's not happening. Or you set up a recurring payment option with will deduct an additional amount from any account and apply it to the loan.

So why am I so annoyed?

Because these recurring payments can only last 6 months. That's right. After six months. And after that, you once again have to remember to log in and set up another recurring payment. Otherwise you default back to the minimum payment, maximum interest schedule.

It's so ridiculous. I mean, on one level, I understand. They want to get as much money from you as possible. On the other hand, this is terrible customer service. In order to give them the money I owe them, I have to set up two drafts from my bank accounts. Then I have to remember to go through this process again every six months. Why in the Hell can I not just increase the amount I pay them through their electronic debit account program?

The government. It makes no damn sense at all. -_-

Person: When you said that the data would not appear in any maps you produced, I didn't realize you meant that the data wouldn't appear in any of the maps you produced.
Tsaiko: Where exactly did you think it would appear?
Person: In the maps we got.
Tsaiko: Do you want it to appear in the maps you get?
Person: No, we don't want it to appear in any maps.
Tsaiko: Great. Then we're good to go.
Person: But the data doesn't appear in the maps we're going to get!
Tsaiko: ...

I swear I honestly expected the theme from The Twilight Zone to start playing.

I was scheduled for another site visit tomorrow and Wednesday. However, my flight was canceled because of the snow. I'll reschedule everything when I can.

Also, I am annoyed at a lot of the people in my apartment complex.. Yes, I know that technically spots are not assigned. But the fact of the matter is, you did a shitty job getting your spot clear. You don't then get to take the because you're lazy. I cleared that spot down to the asphalt for a reason: so I wouldn't have problems getting in and out of it. If you didn't want to do the same, deal with it. Don't just take my spot.

Asshat.

You know, when I do something incredibly painful like pull my groin muscle I want it to be because I was doing something exciting. Something adventurous. Hell, even something risque.

I do not want to do it in my sleep with no idea of how the hell I managed it.

I think we've found three of the modern biblical disasters. These include:

- 2ft of snow
- fire
- five hour plane delay (getting into Atlanta at 3am is fun. Not.)

Luckily the rain of frogs never showed. Maybe that order was canceled, kind of like my sister's Christmas present. However, the actual visit was awesome. My mom has finally seemed to come to terms with that fact that I am in love with Miome and no, this is not a phase. That is good.

This is all capped by the fact that I am writing a Young Avengers AU that is right now titled "Teddy is a Therapy Vampire."

I don't even know folks.

I like the ebook I'm reading. I really do.

But why, dear author, do you make such a huge deal about the characters in it being vulnerable to iron and then have one shrug off being cut with a steel knife? Do you know what steel is? IT'S ABOUT 98 to 99.8 PERCENT IRON.

Research is your friend.

ARGH!

Tsaiko: There are Bojangles! GoogleMaps tells me so.
Miome: Yes!
Tsaiko: *looks at the locations* What? The Bojangles are all in Maryland? There are none in Virginia?!?!
Miome: This is not the South.

Dear serial plagiarist,

I hate to inform you, but people from one fandom do read other fandoms. Changing the names of characters and deleting random lines of the fics and then posting them as your own does not work. People will notice. And when you do it to someone on my friend's list, you get me and my ninja google-fu skills involved. So far lines from 15 out of the first 20 of your fics have caused Google to cough up other fics by a variety of authors. A quick read through reveals remarkable similarities. Amazing!

FF.Net and the authors have been notified. I'm still going through the 48 fics you have listed and reporting. Good luck in ever being part of fandom with that user name again.

Hugs and kisses,
Tsaiko

I actually saw this on a job posting today.

Pay Rate: Lowest possible

Wow. I can tell that this company really values their employees. It wants to pay for quality and make sure that their employees are in it for the long term. Not. They might as well have written "Will take lowest bidder."

Although I am inclined to think that the company sent this out to a recruiter and the recruiter posted the email verbatim on their website. Awesome job there, recruiter. You fail.