My Ipod, yes my Ipod which contained 80 gig’s of my life kicked the bucket the other day.  lucky for me I had means of extracting my music from the HD.  However there is a slightly happy side to this story and that is, about 1.5 years ago I paid a little extra for my ipod and got a 3 year warranty with a replacement option incase of failure!

So off to best buy where I got it, and of course who do they have me talk to?

well I wait in line for about 30 seconds while the lady finishes her text. She greets me with a smile and tells me I’m in the wrong line. so I take one step to my left where a guy is waiting and he prints off a receipt for me and sends me over to the Emo girl filing her nails/claws on the other side of their rounded counter.
I hand her the receipt and I explain my ipod broke but I payed for an extended warrantee so I’d like to use that at this time.

This is the look she gave me, than she asked, “would you like to know about our return policy cause I don’t think you can do that any more, it’s been like, too long!” I than explain how this works, I paid more when I got it so that you could take my broken one and offer to either send it in to get repaired or order a refurbed one from apple to replace mine.

again the look of confidence strikes her young depressed emo face. “Let me talk to someone.” she says and walks away for about 2 min. than she returns kind of laughing and says, “let me talk to someone else.” at this point I’m imagining the geek squad in the back looking at the CCTV of the security cameras and laughing.

finally she returns and tells me I’m right and that she’ll take care of it. she hands me a paper that’s filled out by hand and says her printers broken. This is Geek Squad in Best Buy, couldn’t they grab a new one? Couldn’t they fix the one they have? Their name implies some knowledge of electronics doesn’t it?

Well, that happened on monday. I was told that it’d be there around thursday friday and that I should call them if they don’t call me. so yesterday I call, i’m on hold for 14 min and 32 seconds only to have them tell me the case is still open, nothing new to report. I thank them for their time and sleep on the results.

well today I give them a call and a man pics up, i’m on hold for 7 min 3 seconds till he tells me it was in yesterday, and they had decided to ship it to my house. now, I’m holding the paper right now that is a copy of the paper I filled out that asks if I’d like it shipped to my house or pick it up and it clearly says pick up and under reason it says, “because I work 3 min from this store and it’d be more convenient due to the fact that we’re rarely home.”

Now I’d like to point out that I’m very grateful that I wasn’t charged an extra dime for this, but I feel as if I burned millions of brains cells every time the geek squad spoke to me.

So if you find you know more about your electronics or the return policy than a seasoned employee, go somewhere else.

So here’s an update:

Back in april, Brandon (ugly-face as I call him) and I took a trip down to my mission in Sonora Mexico.

It was a blast, about 2 days after being there we’re issued masks and told that there is an epidemic going around, gripa de zerdo as one person called it, we know it as Swine flu.  so we wore are masks as a joke around the hotel but we didn’t wear them outside like they told us to.  when we had 2 more days to go for our trip we were told the border might be closed off temporarily for tourists.  no one seemed to know what this ment.  so we decided to end our trip early and come home.

upon our arrival we were treated like diseased varmins.  we were asked not to attend church, not to go to work and other people asked us not to go to any public areas; walmart, theatre, out to eat, etc.

I went and got tested only to be told what I already knew, I was free of the H1N1 virus.  so back to work.

shortly after I got engaged to the woman I’d been in love with for the past 3 years.

well I could go on about our engagement but I think this next pic let’s you know what happened. . .

that’s right, we bought flowers together!  oh and got married.

so that’s where life has taken me.  we went our honey moon to canada and now we’re living in Lehi.

so yeah.  that’s life.

oh and here’s some fire for you.  mind you, Janae was the mastermind behind this.  she may or may not like to burn things as much as i do.  

the list was many, and so I’ve decided to start playing guitar in public more often.

yes that is my big change!

well Rachel is right, I need to post more.  so here I am.

this last weekend Adam, Rachel and I decided we’d had our fill of the average weekend of adventures, so we decided to take our adventurous spirits and head south toward Cedar City.

we all had our own reasons.
Rachel - an EFY friend that she hadn’t seen in 2 years
Adam - see Kami’s play
Matt - a date with Ash’s roommate Megan.

Adam & Matt - to see our awesomest friend ever Hye Soo!

well we got there and we all went our seperate ways.  My Date was fun.  we hiked up Kolob and took pictures.  it was really fun.  than we went out to eat, than we killed zombies, following said Zombie Killing, we visited Kelly a friend of both Megan and I.  The next day we made scones and went bowling.

well on our way back, we stopped and said Hi to the Hunts.  It’s always so much fun to see that family again.

from there we hit up some hot springs.  we were so luck to be able to share it with two gay guys!  yeah Rachel and I were kind of disgusted with it.

we’re home now but I wish I was still on the road.  it’s so much fun.  no worries, no responsibilities, and adventure after adventure!

as you can see in some of my pictures, what it does; it take smaller light sources (or distant light sorces) and changes them to a shape when they’re out of focus.  This usually works best against a black or darker back ground, so like night time.

Was I awed and amazed by it?  Flip yes I was!  this thing is awesome!

but yeah, it turned out freakn’ awesome!

I know there really weren’t that many of the cool stars.  but you get the Idea.  I like to take pictures.

The Rules are that you have to put your Ipod, Iphone, Shuffle, iTunes, or what ever else you use to listen to all your music and put it on shuffle.

you use the tittle of the song to answer the question.  for me it wasn’t too far off, but give it a try and see how it works for you.

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?  whole lot a shakin’ going on – jerry lee lewis
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?  Papa was a rolling stone – the temptations
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?  Immortality – pearl Jam
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?  Partie Traumatic – Black Kids
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE? Janie’s got a gun – aero smith
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?   Why should you come when I call – counting crows
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?  I can’t be with you - Cranberries
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?  Stellar  - Incubus
WHAT IS 2+2? Too much to ask – Avril Lavigne
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? Hate that I love you - Rihaana
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Spies – Cold Play
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? Trouble – Cold Play
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?  Planet Telex – Radio Head
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?  Alquimia – Walter Giardino
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?  Clocks – Cold play
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? Machine Head - Bush
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? Hypocrites – Bob Marley
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? Defying Gravity – Wicked Soundtrack
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? The Ripper – The Used
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? That’ll be the day – Buddy Holly
WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN? El Guerrero – Enanitos Verdes
HOW WILL YOU DIE? Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?  Untitled – Matt Nott
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH? Half – Sound Garden
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY? Shygun – La Ley
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?  Wonderboy – Tenacious D
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?  Save you – Pearl Jam
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?  Mulligan Goes to War – Something coorprate
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?  Wasted/ Fix me – Silver chair
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW? Do it twice – Bob Marley
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS? Good Ridance (time of your life) – Green day

That’s my list.  tell me what you get.

so I”m left with 2 options, continue on this path, or, change and grow.  frankly, this is blog.  I don’t really consider this to be a piviting point of my life. so more than likly my blog will still be my vent.

as I read through this, I realize I’m still complaining.  ha ha ha.

well I’ll wrap up on this note.  but give that link a try and let me know what they say about you.  examin yourself, maybe even blog as to why you feeel you got that rating.

until next time, later days.

wasn’t that fun? man you learned so much about me today!