COMCAST SCREWS UP AGAIN.

 I am 80 years old, have a flip phone and no knowledge of computers. Every time there is a power outage in Miami, my provider Comcast makes my life miserable. They cut off my e-mail and request all kinds of information, including a Password which I don't remember or which, if written down, they don't recognize. So I spend hours on the phone with their sickeningly sweet staff in China or India who can't solve the problem and send me off to other sickeningly sweet incompetents in Indonesia or South Korea. I don't get my email back, but I do get a major rise in blood pressure. So, as usual, I will have to hire some tech to restore my service and pay them a $100 and up. Since Comcast is the worst company in the world, I should change servers, but I am told they are all bad. So I will have to hire someone for $100, add that to the $261 for monthly service and I'm out $361 this month. 

 

THE WORLD'S WORST COMPANY

It wins every year: Comcast also called Xfinity. Yesterday they made TV viewing impossible because they said my Remote didn't work. The remote they supplied. So now I have to pay them for a new remote which won't arrive for days. To achieve that I had to spend two hours on the phone with a stranger who seemed to have no idea how to fix the problem. This morning I couldn't read my e-mail because they demanded my ID and Password, which I supplied but they denied and kept showing the same demand endlessly along with ads for local banks. Why? Comcast is far too expensive, completely incompetent, has the worst customer service connection,  and somehow manages to add more costs each month. I am now up to $261.00 a month for no good reason. They pulled a fast one when they prevented customers for getting TCM unless they sign up for the sports network. Duh.  I have heard that all these companies suck, but none can be worse than Comcast.

MEDICAL CARE TODAY

 Several weeks back I had an EEG scan with a Dr. Pandy in Miami. I assumed they would notify me when the results came in. But this morning I received a call that my appointment was today, though I had never be told that, so I cancelled. Just now I called Dr. Pandy's office to see if they could tell me the results over the phone rather than my having to reschedule, and make the tedious visit to the office for a five minute appointment. The recorded voice told me that I was number 3 on the phone waiting list, and by pushing number 2, I could leave a call back. This wouldn't have been so bad except it was accompanied by loud frantic annoying music and the message was repeated at least 15 times at 10-second intervals. I finally hung up. This is medicine in Miami these days. Doctors are difficult or impossible to reach. They have no problem leaving you hanging on the phone for extended periods. And more often than not their office staff is less than efficient or friendly. C'est la vie. 

ONE PERSON I COUL KILL.

 There is nothing I hate more in the world than passwords. Whoever created this abomination should be imprisoned,hanged, guillotined, garroted, quartered -no punishment is too severe. I don't even think having passwords prevents much of anything. Leaving that fury aside let me point out how much I despise Apple for being the greediest bastards on earth,  constantly changing systems and requirements to make more money, never caring who they force into penury or what costly system they force into early obsolescence. Almost all Apple computers were better three evolutions back, but they don't care as long as you have to shell out more money every time the system changes. Sometimes I wish we never entered the age of the computer. I like getting postcards and letters, and talking for hours on he phone with friends.