1/18/07

I'm really having a tough time giving a crap about anything today. Well, for the whole week to be honest. Perhaps it is the weather, being as how it has been totally crappy all week. I guess it hasn’t been totally crappy because Tuesday wasn’t too bad. Today is just gloomy and cold-ish but not crappy. Fine, then the problem is with me. Feh! I'm still unable to send that money to Australia. I stopped by the post office again to see if it was a semantics issue but they can’t send a money order either. I'm going to have to see if Mr. Hand can ‘splain what he means when he says they use Western Union to transfer money or tell him to get a Paypal account. I have got to be more careful when bidding to make sure the seller takes Paypal from now on. I get careful about it for a while then forget and just bid on something without looking. I'm always getting screwed that way. Well, I guess I need to go back online and send him a message. Perhaps I'll feel like talking to y'all again later. Ok, tell me if this makes any sense. I just tried to send money by Western Union. Everything was going well until the final page of the transaction, which stated something to the effect of, “Please call to verify transaction.” It gave me the number. I called and spoke to some dude, probably in India but I won’t go into that. He verified some information then said he had to ask some multiple choice “security questions” or some such. The first one asked about companies I may have been associated with in the past. Option “B” was the name of one of the A/V companies I worked for in Dallas. Fine. The next question asked where someone named Randall White might live or own property. I don’t know any Randall White so I told him that. The next question was about the age range of a Sheri White. Again, don’t know a Sheri White so I couldn’t answer. The money transfer was declined. Declined because two thirds of the security questions, which were supposed to identify me as me, were about people I have never even heard of! What in the Holy Handmaiden of Holland’s crap bucket is that all about? Seriously, someone explain that to me. It is a good thing Mr. Hand wasn’t waiting for that money to get out of jail or something. “Sorry dude, you’re going to have to sit there for a bit while I try to find a Western Union office since I am apparently not who I said I am.” Apparently everyone with the surname White is supposed to know every other person with the surname White in the friggin’ country. To top it all off, I went to the closest office that Western Union lists and that store is under new management and doesn’t do Western Union anymore. This DCOE to turbo manifold is rapidly becoming far more trouble than it is worth. I will probably try one more time to find a local WU office, but if that fails, I'm just going to take the negative feedback from him and call it a wash. Well, it is approaching noon. I'm hungry as well. I think I'll go eat.