- RT: @cnnbrk: Farrah Fawcett, star of "Charlie's Angels," has died from cancer at 62. This makes me sad. My first Celebrity Crush is dead. #
Twitter Updates for Week of 2009-06-21
- Sad = Speedways $.99 iced coffee is 10x more delicious than McDonnalds $3 iced coffee. Which may be the worst on the planet. #
- is shipping his REPLACEMENT watch back to SKAGEN because it didn't keep time either. http://bit.ly/2vmoN #
- is getting really, really tired of all the rain… This aint Seattle… Sheesh. #
- Chinese Thursday… I'm not sure what was in my General Tso's Chicken, but I'm fairly confident that it wasn't chicken… #
Just a Photo Update.
A few shots of Matthew from this weekend.
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| From More Matthew_1 |
I had forgotten how much Monty loves the pool.
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| From Monty in the Pool |
As long as the kids are in the pool that’s where he wants to be. I’ll walk around the outside edge and hop on to a body board and float around. When we had more than one he’d hop back and forth between them. He’s playing life guard and will start barking if anyone goes under…
It’s a done deal.
Michael graduated last night from Edgewood, with Honors!
Regardless of what he thinks we are very proud of him 🙂
We’re having an open house/graduation party on Sunday the 7th. 5pm-9pm.
Watch Repair FAIL
Back in 2006 when I attended Cisco Affiliate Network.
I purchased a Cisco branded Skagen watch. The price was right, and I was in a mood for a watch and had been looking at Skagen for a while since they are so light and ‘thin’.
On the way home I noticed it wasn’t keeping time and that bothered me. It wasn’t until a couple weeks later that I noticed if you bumped it at all, the minute hand would just ‘move’. It would keep time just fine sitting on the desk, just don’t subject it to any movement. 🙁
I called Cisco Marketing to see if they’d swap me out. Turns out they were the last batch and since Cisco was in the process of changing logo’s there wouldn’t be anymore.
They suggested I send it to Skagen since it had a limited lifetime warranty.
Well I never did, that was until about a month ago. I printed out the RMA form, included Credit card info fully expecting to be dinged $30 bucks or so for the repair.
A couple of weeks passed and I noticed that Skagen had only dinged me $8.95 (plus the cost of shipping it to them). Which appears is the standard fee for warranty repair. (yes a fee for warranty work, go figure).
I was giddy, looking forward to getting a nice and relatively new watch back.
It arrived today.
I tore open the envelope, pulled out the slip and read it. Work performed Reseal Case & Attached Minute Hand!.
Then I pulled out the box congaing the watch. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Where was the minute hand? Floating around the number 1 and 2 on the dial, completely detached from the movement. Pfffft.
See:
(in the photo it’s floating over the #3)
So I turned it over to my wife to handle. She’s good with stuff like that. At first they wanted me to ship it to them again (at my cost) and that wasn’t going to fly.
But in the end they are supposed to take care of me. They are going to build me a watch. (sans the Cisco Logo) and ship it to me and pick up the bumb fix.
I’ll update if that doesn’t happen.