Comparing

Sometimes this is how I feel:

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Verizon

This is why i like Verizon:

-----Original Message-----

Primary Subject: Feedback
Secondary Subject: Customer Service Feedback
Message Body: To Whom It May Concern:

First i would like to say that I appreciate the consistently top-notch customer service your company provides. One of your fine representatives (Sherice) informed me that Verizon is discontinuing the new every two benefit. I encourage you to implement another similar benefit, as it is one of the reasons i stay with Verizon. Plans, phones and networks are similar enough that it is customer service and perks that keep many customers loyal, therefore i ask that you create a new perk regrading phones to keep us loyal.
Sincerely,
Cassi Clark Ward-Hunt

Their Response:

Dear Cassi Clark Ward-Hunt,

My name is Jeremiah, and I can definitely understand your concerns regarding the charges to the New Every two program. We have updated our upgrade options. So, going forward, while there will no longer be a New Every Two option you'll continue to qualify for promotional pricing with a one or two year agreement. You can take advantage of promotional pricing and any special offers that are available with an upgrade after 20 months on a two-year agreement.

Verizon Wireless is always looking for ways to better meet the needs of our customers. Your comments regarding changes to our upgrade options have been forwarded to the appropriate department for review and consideration. Your feedback provides us with the perfect opportunity to hear exactly what you think, and often leads to improvements you will see in the future.

I do see that you are still eligible to regarding your final New Every Two discount effective 12/23/11. You are also currently eligible to complete an Annual Upgrade. You may view your promotional pricing and process your order by signing in to “My Verizon” using your Account Owner Number and password. Next, click on the “Upgrade” icon located under “Device” in the “I Want To” section at the bottom of your home page and follow the instructions provided.

Cassi, thank you for giving me the opportunity to discuss updates to our upgrade options. If you have any additional questions or concerns please reply to this e-mail. We appreciate your business and thank you for being the most valued part of Verizon Wireless!

Sincerely,
Jeremiah
Verizon Wireless, Customer Service
Internet Response Team

Half my friends and family don't even spell my name right, and Verizon not only spelled my name correctly but answered my web-based feedback personally! (Now if they will only continue to help me get inexpensive or free phones life would be perfect!)

Real Woman Do Cry

Speaker of the House John Boehner cries. He cries at work, on TV and probably at home. He was made fun of by the late night circuit, but eventually we all accepted it. He is not considered weak. He was nearly unanimously elected speaker of the house. He is just a man in touch with his emotions.

But what if this were Nancy Pelosi? Would she have gotten the same respect as Mr. Boehner? Would she have been considered strong? I doubt it. Somehow in our push to be treated as equals to men, women have traded our female strengths for male traits. Independence is good, but not when it has cost us our ability to deal with our emotions.

In a few years there will be more hispanics in America than whites. With this will come a group of women that is perceived to have missed the feminist movement. Many hispanic women still enable the macho culture they came from, and I worried about what this will do for the feminist movement. Would it set us back. But now, I see these women also have a strong female culture. A culture that is in touch with the innate strengths of women, and perhaps that is a positive influence us emotionally cut-off women need.

The reality is that we are all the same. Hispanic cultures have women in power just as Americans do, and those women got there using whatever is in them individually that they possessed. But I hope that as a gender in America, women can embrace what makes us female and make that part of our culture.

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This Run Brought to You by the Federal Reserve and the Letter's B and D.

Today I literally ran around Denver looking for money. No, not the $20 bill you dropped outside the bar last night in your drunkenness, nor a cash paying job. I was looking for cash money shredded into tiny little bits and packs of fake cash, and since it is 69 degrees today, I decided to run and get me some of that Vitamin D doctors keep telling us we need even thought they are not sure why. I began by fighting the wind going north along 18th Street toward Unions Station, over the bridge to Confluence Park. Low and behold the Union Station B-cycle station was open and full of bikes!! Yay B-cycle! But I kept running. I fought the wind going south along the Cherry Creek Trail to the Denver Mint. The Denver Mint, for you who don't know, is one of the many off-white stone buildings behind the City and County Building that all look alike. It is the one building that has nothing to do with the Judiciary Branch of State or Local government. (Among the official buildings was an empty B-cycle station. Yay B-Cycle!) The very pretty Denver Mint building is surrounded by a tall metal spiked fence and trailers. Yes, doublewide trailers like Clear Creekers used to go to classes in and somewhere someone's cousin Billy Bob resides in. One such trailer houses the Mint Gift Shop, and outside are very nice security guards to assure guests that yes that is the 10-year-old gift shop. Inside the Denver Mint Gift Shop are the coins you see on TV commemorating just about everything, and a few that are real money too, but no cash dollars, whole or otherwise.

So, at the suggestion of the Mint customer service ladies, I ran off to the Federal Reserve (yes, fighting the wind). The reserve building is the official looking building set back off the 16th Street Mall between Champa and Arapahoe. The entrance is on Champa by the noise-art sidewalk that moos at you. This building feels much more like a federal building (there are no trailers), also surrounded by a tall spiky metal fence in the entrance has security guards in an enclosed guard office next to a metal detector and conveyer-belt x-ray machine. The guards happily offered to let me in for a self-guided tour of the "museum," but alas I didn't not have my ID because I was on a run. However, the guards did confirm the rumor that our very own Kansas Federal Reserve Denver Branch gives away free money to anyone who asks. I got three bags full! (Yes it was shredded and completely worthless, but still very cool.) The guards also suggested I make an appointment for a tour because then you can see where the money gets counted! It's now on my list of things to do in Denver.

Anyway, having run roughly four miles and having my hands full of money I decided to walk the rest of the way home, stopping in souvenir shops here and there looking for packs of fake money, to no avail. Ironically I almost crossed the street in front of, to be killed by, an armored cash truck!

So though I am sure you have been completely entertained by my little story, you might be wondering why I ran all over Denver looking for money that is not going to pay the bills. We're having a Michael Douglass Wall Street Party. Invitation only, unless your stock portfolio is big enough.

Productive day

So today was a cold snowy day in Denver. So I finished my curtains,

researched radio in 1912, and then finished darning my socks.

Not as pretty as I thought they would be, but new life for my Smartwools!

Time to start the front piece of my hoodie sweater.