Not doing it.

I just found out on Thursday that it will cost me $700 for an iPhone, including my special deal I get through work. I will also have to opt out of my current contract 2.7 years early. I am not happy about this. I spent $100 on a phone I thought would be alright, but it has this way of randomly deleting ring tones I've saved to it, including the free Star Wars one that Rogers texted me about 2 weeks ago. I want to get a Blackberry, because text messaging seems to be much faster, and I'm not very good at T9. However without a new 3 year contract, I'm looking at about $400.

As well, I'm very sad to say that my awesome Samsung 27" TV that I bought for $555 at Visions in Saskatoon, the Tv that moved with me is about to bite the dust. Moves:

From Saskatoon to Kelowna.
From Kelowna to Chilliwack.
From Chilliwack to Kelowna.
From Kelowna to Kamloops.
From Kamloops to Kelowna.

Plus 13 other moves in there from house to house on all those towns. That thing has been more than excellent.

It started about a month ago when I noticed that there was a weird green tinge on the screen in the upper left hand corner. We were playing Wii at the time, so I thought maybe the burned version of the game was faulty. Though, I don't see how that's possible. Anyway, about a week later my sister and I were watching TV, and I saw it again.

Then last night I bought a PACE PVR from work, and noticed that the picture is shaking. And the volume control doesn't really work. If I try to turn the volume down, I get all the way to the very last block before it's about to have no sound, and the volume level is the same. The last one down renders it almost completely quiet, but not completely quiet as it should be. I give it about a month, and it will die. Dammit. I've had a lot of good times with that TV. It's been on the bus, and been in about 12 different cars, plus one moving truck. I'll miss it when it's gone.

They Caved.

But it's still not enough. For me personally however, 6G is way more than I'll ever use, especially considering I forgot to charge my current phone a lot.

More cell phone woes

This time they aren't my woes (for once). We got an email at work regarding the new charges that Bell and Telus are about to introduce. That's right, they're about to start charging for incoming text messages. Almost the second the news was released, there was outrage. Everyone brings up a good point: we don't control who texts us and when, and now we have to pay for it? That's like saying if someone calls you long distance, you're paying for that call just because you had the nerve to answer the phone. Since the news was released, more information has come out to the effect that those who are paying for unlimited plans will not be charged, however those who rarely ever use the phone (the emailers) will have to pay for every incoming message. The worst part about all this, is Rogers is NOT on that band wagon. This means they will attain more customers.

How do they keep winning?

Update

Over 40,000 people have now signed the petition for the god awful Rogers iPhone rates. Let's hope something will happen to get at least a decently priced unlimited plan to be released.

*****UPDATE: the number is almost at 60,000. They also have a page where you can "sign" to say you are willing to cancel if something isn't done. Almost 1200 have signed that one.

Brain Bake

I'm not 100% sure what's happening with my head these days. I can't tell if it's the heat, or the "I might have to move to Calgary" thing that's been plaguing my mind, but I'm definitely suffering from 'brain bake'. 10 minutes ago I paid my Rogers wireless bill...for the second time. I paid it on the 16th and for some terrible reason it took forever to go through, so when they sent me the email saying that my bill was available to view, it wasn't showing a payment. Rather than take 4 minutes to log into my bank account and see that the payment was made, I just logged in and paid it. So now I'm $123 down. Dammit. I really hope I remember to check around Friday or so to make sure that my payment has gone through. If not, I will have to call Rogers to find out why they haven't posted my (by that time) 3 week old payment. I know they're under a lot of fire from the iPhone package announcement, but really. The day should go on as normal...

Last night I went to a Canada Day (one day early, as we all have to work the next day) party. My sister is house sitting at a place that has a pool and a hot tub, and quite possibly the most awesome backyard I've ever seen. The family that lives there is plant crazy. We played badminton for a few hours, drank some beers, had some steaks, and went home early. It was awesome.

Hope everyone has a great Canada Day.