Category: rants
I wrote this posting for my other blog, but I figured that I’d post it here too, given that (a) most of my readers probably don’t read my other blog and (b) I just had a little debate on the issue on my Facebook wall, which prompted me to share this info a little more […]
So, yeah, I’m still paying off those damn student loans. But student loans aren’t what I’m bitching about today. Today I’m bitching about the Royal Bank. As I’ve mentioned previously, I keep a separate bank account where a portion of my paycheque goes every month, which is used to make my student loan payments. I […]
Over on Kalev’s K-log, he posted an analysis of the devaluation of Shopper’s Drug Mart Optimum points. For my non-Canadian readers, Shopper’s Drug Mart is a pharmacy and “Optimum” is their loyalty program – you get points every time you buy stuff at Shopper’s and once you get a certain amount of points, you can […]
So, remember last week when I told you about how Telus had “generously” offered me a service that I already pay for in honour of my birthday on a day that isn’t my birthday? Well, every time I post something on my blog, a tweet is automatically generated with a link to that posting. And […]
So, the car that we rented at the Calgary airport had a GPS in it. The hilariously named “Hertz Never Lost” system. Which got us lost both on the way to and the way back Kananaskis. Several times it told us to “stay left at the fork” when the was no fork,told us to take […]
I received this text message yesterday: First of all, my birthday is not on May 30. Second, May 30 is a Sunday and my cell phone plan comes with unlimited evenings and weekends. So yeah, thanks for nothing, Telus!
For a while there, a lot of blog comment spam was getting through my spam filters. Some were getting through the filters completely and showing up on my blog and more were showing up in the “hmm, we aren’t sure if this is spam or not, so please moderate” folder. I’m talking 5, sometimes 10 […]
“Women’s Monthly Madness”? Really?
On Thursday evening, I finally got my new bedroom furniture to go with my new mattress. You know, the furniture that was supposed to come on Tuesday morning. Don’t even get me started on the incompetence of Furniture Land, the place I bought this stuff from. I thought I was so smart negotiating a great […]
Saw this at the grocery store the other day: Is it really environmentally friendly to create a disposable version of something that isn’t usually thrown out? Their website shows a comparison with regular pans – their product is made from Eucalyptus trees and sugarcane, which are “renewable” and “biodegradable,” while regular baking pans aren’t made […]