More good news….

Verizon just called me — a free-airtime type call, meaning I won’t be charged for daytime minutes, because the call came out of their system.

I’d sorta forgotten that I’d contacted them a little while ago over a mystery charge on my bill in June — $5.00 twice [once per phone number] for wireless phone insurance, which I’d already been charged for [something like $4.99 or $5.99 and $3. or $4.99 for each phone. I forget].

It took a little explaining to get that across, but the customer service person who called me eventually found it and worked out that there was no reason for me to be charged that extra $10.

So I’ve got a $10. credit coming up on my next bill. Yay.

If my head didn’t hurt, today would be good.

Pyrex

A couple of days ago, my 8″x8″ colbalt blue pyrex…bakeware thingie just…broke. There’s this little oddly shaped piece that came out one of the corners and part of the middle.

This was the first time I ever saw pyrex break. I think maybe I saw one of those more delicate looking pieces of lab-ware type stuff break in chem class, but never one of these baking dishes. Hell, I even dropped one once a long time ago, and it didn’t break.

But ths one did. And for no apparent reason.
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Altoids

Earlier this month I was enjoying a few cinnamon Altoids, when I ended up eating one that was obviously not cinnamon, and very much not ‘curiously strong’. It was, in fact, a curiously weak wintergreen.

Just because I could, I went to altoids.com, found their comment form, and ‘commented’ on this experience:
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