Now I'm going to go all parable on you all so don't get too confused....LOL

There was once a squirrel building it's nest high up in the tree getting prepared for the long winter. The squirel needed one more acorn to put in his nest. As he began to pull the last acorn into his nest he felt completely satisified that he had fulfilled all his requirements for the winter haul. But at the very last moment just as the acorn had been snuggled deep within his nest he noticed up on the tree branch just a few tails lengths away a huge gorgeous acorn just waiting to be taken. It had not been claimed by any other and he knew that that acorn was just what he needed to fulfill his quota for the winter season. But he had just placed the last acorn in his nest and was worried what would happen to that acorn were he to abandon it. What should the squirrel do?

I can't even begin to say in how many areas and ways that this parable applies to my life.

Upon examination of my previous blogs it occurs to me that too few people actually read this and thus what I am saying is left to be seen at the top of my blog list. Thus to all and any bloggers out there looking for a raondom assortment of topics please peruse beyond this one blog.

Well, here I am once again and I am blogging late in the evening about things that are truely random indeed. But perhaps to the one or so of you out there that might ever read this the previous blog left you in a bit of a clifhanger and thus I am here to finish it.

I will try to make this as short a story as possible. Basically; I purchased an academically priced version of the Reason 3 upgrade and tried to use it on my computer. The upgrade worked fine but would not allow me to use it because there was a problem with the registration code. After several e-mail exchanges and figuring that avenue was not a route that would lead me to a conclusion to my situation I phoned them up and began a chatin'. After all attempts failed to convince them to give me a liscencing code for the software they told me that an academic upgrade would not work with a full priced version of the software, viz what I own, and told me to contact the company that I bought it from to get a refund.

I then went through a hurricane category 3 and was away from my home for almost a month. Upon returning that was the last of my worries until all things were basically restoring to normal. The mail at that time was kind of screwy anyways and thus would have yielded unwanted results anyways. I finally contacted the company I purchased the software from via e-mail and asked them for a refund. Their first response was that it was policy not to allow a return on something that they no longer sold. My response was, "You probably aren't selling any more of these because of similar problems to my own." I also asked them [imagine this] nicely to reconcider upon my circumstances due to the hurricane and due to the fact that they sold me a product that they basically knew would not work in my situation but did not bother to inform me about in the case that my situation was that of which there were problems. One more thing to note here, this was not the first time that a lack of information was given from the website. When I first ordered the software I was getting it as sort of a birthday present to myself and thus I ordered it expedited shipping so that I could get it and start working with it as soon as possible. I ordered it on a Wednesday and by Saturday it had not arrived. I e-mailed the company inquiring as to what happened and they told me that the item was out of stock and would be in shortley and shipping to me soon. Well no information was handed to me telling me that this product was out of stock nor was I warned before, during or anytime after I purchased it. That angered me and thus I accosted and they ended up eating the shipping. Good for them!

Finally, I get an e-mail saying that by viture of managers approval I am allowed a refund. But wait, does this mean that I got the refund due to; sympathy from the hurricane, remorse from selling me a product that would not be compatible with my software without ever warning me of these possible conditions, or from the sheer fact that each time I asked for a refund I was basically curteous and only very slightly accostive? All I know is that I did not have to call and talk to the president of the company to get something done about my problem and that makes me pretty happy.

Moral learned in all of this is that at least in the next few times I am in the situation that I must accost I will do so in a kind and friendly manner. Or at least in first or until I realize that nothing is going to be done about it and then i'll lay in on thick.

And always remember, Build a little birdhouse in your soul!

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Ok, so I'm not a frequent blogger but I try. I'm really busy and basically I forget that this is here. I guess that I just don't need to vent very often or perhaps I take care of it through other avenues. Perhaps this means that this is simply just a place I can display random thoughts and acostments.

Random accostment of the day: when you own a Jazz club and you want musicians to come and play on a regular basis, first, you should always tell them in advance when you want them to come or set up a basic schedule to which nothing is changed from week to week except by prior notice. One should also keep from booking parties late in the evening on high traffic days such as say Friday and Saturday when said parties are going to eat into evening alcohol sales and tips.

I wish I had groovier things to say but I've run all out of ideas. I'm away from home right now but when I get home I'm going to have to blog about my dealings with software companies and other said mishaps in the past few months that have lead me to a conclusion that shocked even me.

Arrrgh! Shiver me timbers, tis the black spot. Why do we talk the way that we do? Is it something that we said?

My favorite quote of the day:  " I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it." by Erwin Schrodinger with regards to quantum mechanics.

Thought aerobics for the day. Immanual Kant was a real pissant who was very very sta....oops sorry. What I meant to say was Immanual Kant stated and upheld that all of our knowledge begins with experience. I agree. What items of understanding have we not grasped through the toils of experience. What constituants of knowledge have we not gained but through the throngs of trial and error. But he does not stop here. He merely says that all knowledge begins with experience but does not end with it nor does it imply that all knowledge arises out of experience. Empirical knowledge being the primary source but does there exist a secondary knowledge that comes completely devoid and without the help of experience. He further breaks it down stating that there is pure a priori knowledge meaning that it exists without any empirical precedence. Is ther such a thing as pure a priori knowledge? Who is to say. But let's ask the man in the street.

WOW!

I got REASON in the mail and I'm very excited and ready to get started. It seems pretty easy now that I am messing with it and though I know it's going to take me a while to learn how to use it best. Anyways, I've been relaxing after my wonderful trip to Fort Worth. It seems harder and harder to leave everytime. I wish I could afford to just leave here and move up there but I'm trying to finish a degree and that would not be very beneficial to that effort. So, I'm off to wach some Monty Python Flying Circus and get some sleep. I've no real accostment for the day except that I wrote a sort of spooky story a couple of months ago and I can't find it and I wish I could. So my accostment is to myself in that I need to not have computers peeter out on me so easily.

Oh, I also bought a mah jong game from walmart for like $5. And I'm eager to see if it is good and if sitting down in a comfortable chair can really rest your legs and now for some grotesque pictures of penises.