I have been trying to come up with a new design for the website. Update the look and feel a bit. But everything I look at or try or modify just does not have the same feel as this design it’s rather homey to me. But I am open to input and ideas what would you like to see in a new design of the site?
Ugh my Sprint Phone has been driving me up the wall and the customer service experience has been even worse. I usually resort to the chat method since it seems to be faster then waiting for 30-60 minutes in their hold queue dealing with everyone else that is frustrated with them.
I have the Sprint Motorola Q. It has been a decent phone up until recently. About a week ago the phone has been in “Roaming Service” and it is rather annoying with my phone in roam. So I jumped on a Sprint Chat Session and these were the results.
1:57:13 PM System System
Connected to sprint-ap1.cnxchat.com
1:57:13 PM System System
Session ID: 2859609
1:57:19 PM System System
Please hold and the next available agent will be with you shortly.
1:57:34 PM System System
Arthur has joined this session!
1:57:34 PM System System
Connected with Arthur
1:57:34 PM Agent Arthur
Thank you for contacting Sprint. My name is Arthur. How may I assist you today?
1:57:49 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Hey Arthur! I have an issue with my phone.
1:58:04 PM Agent Arthur
what is the issue.
1:58:23 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I would say about a week ago my phone went into Roaming. I look at the screen and it says “Roaming Service”
1:58:46 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
It can still make calls and so forth but I can’t surf the internet or check my e-mail.
1:59:02 PM Agent Arthur
One moment please.
1:59:25 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I tried to dial the *2 to call Sprint and I keep getting sent to a message that says “Welcome to Verizon Wireless, That is not an available number” or something like that
1:59:58 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I tried going into Settings > Phone Settings > Network and it’s set to “Sprint Only”
2:00:25 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I have tried to reboot the phone multiple times.
2:00:43 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Take the battery out for a while and put it back in and power it back on. Still no issue.
2:00:44 PM Agent Arthur
allow me to get some technical support for you.
2:01:02 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I have tried to update the software on the phone via the Motorola Updater and that didn’t appear to fix the issue.
2:01:50 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I have no issues leaving it in “Roaming Service”
2:02:48 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I just don’t want to get flagged for data access in roaming or phone roaming even though I get free Roaming
2:05:39 PM Agent Arthur
Do not fret you will not be charged for that.
2:06:40 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
That’s good
2:07:10 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Well I guess I could just leave it in Roam then
2:07:10 PM Agent Arthur
Thank you for contacting Sprint. Our goal is to make your chat experience a great one. There will be a survey after this chat that you may fill out to advise us of how we are doing. Please disable all popup blockers before this chat session ends to ensure you are afforded the opportunity to participate. Should you have any additional feedback or comments you would like to provide regarding your chat or chat agent, please send us an email at: sprint.customerappreciation@connextions.com. If you would like a copy of this transcript please press either the print button at the bottom of this session or the copy button to copy/paste into the word processing program of your choice.
2:07:38 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Why did you just send a bunch of spam onto the screen?
2:08:16 PM Agent Arthur
the towers are being worked on
2:08:43 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
You sent a bunch of spam to the screen because towers are being worked on?
2:09:26 PM Agent Arthur
We did not send it
2:09:35 PM Agent Arthur
It is being de scrambled.
2:10:08 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
We being “Sprint” did not send the flood of text on the screen on a chat help line that they are hosting or paying somebody to host?
2:10:19 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
When it appears to be coming from your name on the chat session?
2:10:42 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
What’s the Sprint customer # because the *2 isn’t working while it’s in Roam
2:11:17 PM Agent Arthur
Sir it is coming through us as an error we are working to fix that .
2:12:26 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
So why did you just say you are not sending it when now you are saying that it is your fault and you are working on fixing that?
2:13:07 PM Agent Arthur
Whether it is our fault or not we are claiming responsibility to rectify the situation for you.
2:13:12 PM Agent Arthur
So we are claiming it.
2:13:31 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Okay then.
2:13:50 PM Agent Arthur
Thank you for contacting Sprint. Our goal is to make your chat experience a great one. There will be a survey after this chat that you may fill out to advise us of how we are doing. Please disable all popup blockers before this chat session ends to ensure you are afforded the opportunity to participate. Should you have any additional feedback or comments you would like to provide regarding your chat or chat agent, please send us an email at: sprint.customerappreciation@connextions.com. If you would like a copy of this transcript please press either the print button at the bottom of this session or the copy button to copy/paste into the word processing program of your choice.
2:13:55 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
So work is being done on the towers in my area and that is why my phone has been in Roaming Mode for a week?
2:14:07 PM Agent Arthur
Yes sir
2:14:52 PM Agent Arthur
It sometimes gets to be a problem it is not always that all goes well sometimes we have issues .
2:16:29 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Then why is it the gentelmen in the cubicle right next to me has a Sprint Phone a Sprint Katana or whatever has perfect service and has never had this issue and mine had perfect service up until last Tuesday?
2:18:53 PM Agent Arthur
It just happens sometimes we are working things out.
2:19:23 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
What is the customer service number since *2 does not work while in roaming
2:20:48 PM Agent Arthur
*2 for customer service.
2:21:07 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
I have said twice now *2 does not work while in roaming.
2:21:24 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
What is the 800 or 888 or 877 number to get in touch with Sprint Customer Service.
2:22:28 PM Agent Arthur
888-211-4727
2:23:04 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Why couldn’t you have given that to me when I asked the first or second time?
2:23:28 PM Agent Arthur
i apologize here it is.
2:25:48 PM Customer Tristan Pipo
Ok
2:25:56 PM Agent Arthur
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It’s interesting to think that in September I will have been blogging for 5 years and have 1,000 blogs under my belt.
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So true to life it’s comical.
Also RSS feeds have all been redirected to appear as if I am inflating my actual readers.
I thought I would take the time to write about the experience one experience of the weekend. Which would happen to have happened on Friday. Raleigh had decided for me that going to the dentist was in my best interests for keeping her happy. In that regard I was happy to fulfill her request. The basic circle I have found out that if Raleigh isn’t happy. Tristan’s isn’t happy. So if Raleigh is happy Tristan will then be happy. I pretty much use this simple way of thinking to work around any idea I have to decide if it will break this loop I have going.
So a few weeks ago I went to the dentist. I hadn’t been to the dentist since I was 11 or 12 or so. The last time I recall was when my mom was working at a Nursing home and my sister and I were getting babysat at some construction site for one of our tenants named Stewart. A Scottish fellow that was incredibly odd but if you really care to know how odd shoot me an e-mail. I remember all day I was brushing my teeth and using mouthwash. Must have been at least 20 times that day. So I go to the dentist without any hitches then and because of parents and lack of insurance or drive I hadn’t been to the dentist since.
This appalled Raleigh and she did a check on my insurance and was like “You are going to the dentist” Had I refused the circle of someone being happy would be broken and well bad day for everyone. I really am not a fan of the dentist ever since they started using needles and I hate needles because some nurse screwed up giving me an injection when I had mono. So the general idea of needles has made me rather unhappy and I tend to freak out. Bees scare me because they are basically needle marines that inject you with micro poison. They are quick to anger as well. So pretty much anything with a needle is a “No” unless you give me something to calm my nerves.
So the first time going to the dentist in many years my thought was that all my teeth are going to be broken and sucked out and I would need to get dentures. Raleigh had me basically thinking my mouth was a cesspool of vermin and decay and death. But after all this time it turned out I only had one cavity and needed a stronger cleaning then normal but not a program of deep cleanings. So which basically raised my ego about a billion points because I had healthier teeth then the lady Raleigh. They had to use this thing called a gouger and soul extractor or a hook thing and a water pick as Raleigh would say because she says I exaggerate things to much.
During this cleaning I was holding on for my life. Because I feel like they are ripping my face off with these hooks and picks and tools of death. What I was told was an hour and a half seemed like just 20 minutes of pure hell. So for the filling they gave me an Rx and told me to come back in two weeks for the drill. They gave me some Rx for something which is purely amazing. It made me not remember a whole day. I totally didn’t have to recall an experience going to Ross.
I am sure everyone knows what Ross is. But if you don’t let me enlighten you. It’s a discount retail store for discounted retail stuff. So something goes to Macy’s lets say. It doesn’t sell there or there is something wrong with it. They send it to their outlet store and if doesn’t sell there they send it to one of these Ross type stores to sell. So they have lots of cheap crap they couldn’t sell anywhere else. They are always horribly lighted and trashed and no room to do anything with crappy music and they just smell dirty. Raleigh loves this shopping establishment. I would rather pay the extra few dollars. To not deal with any of these issues. But I digress. I was told we went there on Friday and I don’t recall it at all. But we do have a new can opener. Which I use mostly. I have yet to see her use one. I know when she reads this it will be “Shutup Tristan. I use the can opener. I use it all the time. I am the can opening goddess of the greenwood” Which I will probably laugh at and get “Baby, don’t laugh” see right now as she is reading this she is pondering what she is going to say to me when she looks to her right and sees me sitting there. If I had to guess what I am doing right now as she is reading this I would say probably working out a math problem in the air.
But anyways back to the gloating of teeth cleaning. So I took 2 pills Friday morning to make my filling experience a bit more pleasant for everyone involved. Which was probably the best idea anyone had. Because I had never been so relaxed. They put all this crap and a rubber sheet over my face and it was like whatever. I don’t care what you do just keep me pain free. I bought an audiobook to keep my mind busy but turned out I didn’t need it I don’t recall what I listened to there didn’t appear to be a thing that could get me down on Friday. They took care of my teeth and now have a perfectly clean mouth other then the obscenity that pops out for a random reason. So really this entire post was a reason to gloat.
After my teeth had been cleaned Raleigh actually did something I had never seen her do before. It happened on Sunday. We were at a Red Robin and she had an Iced Tea and I got some Strawberry Lemonade. I had a drink of my lemonade a few times and she decided she didn’t like her tea. She actually took a sip of the lemonade. I was beyond perplexed she will never try a drink if I touched it. But she did so I guess in that respect having my teeth cleaned was worth it.
In case you didn’t get the circle reference here is a little flowchart. To help you understand since the flow can go either way it can have an affect on either party involved.
Tristan is Out.
So today came some really good news. The old domain name for the site that I retired became available so I picked it back up again. This site has been through a few changes. Here are the former pages as follows.
So 2005 came about and I let siriusdude.com expire and fall into the pits of the internet. Some spam site took it over and the domain was just left to sit there. I got a notice saying some e-mail was unable to deliver to siriusdude.com which had me wondering WTF mate! So I went to see what was up with the domain. It was available so I picked it up again and now back to an all good domain happy family. I feel so complete right now.
I picked up the Flight of the Conchords DVD. Target had it for $19.99. Raleigh has never seen this brilliant program. So I thought I would share with you all probably one of my favorite moments.
Now if I only had a pair of Business Socks.
Hey TristanPipo.com readers! I have been rather slack on updating the blog and because of this readership and hits have gone down. Which is understandable so I am going to work on being a better poster. Pretty much every personal blog that I have ever seen does this every now and then. I used to have aspirations to be a professional blogger. But I didn’t really have the market. Most professional bloggers seem to be well connected in the industry or be females. Being female and having boobs seems to be the number one factor in getting readers. You will instantly attract a great deal of men leaving stupid comments in the hopes that they might be the lucky one that will get to see you naked. But odds are they will meet some other dude who knows very little about their digital life and therefor will not brag about how they got to nail such a female blogger. But as with all my blogs we have found ourself on another tangent. Odd but you would think I am somewhat bitter when I could really care less.
I am writing this at 12:43am Sunday May 25th 2008. When it just so happens that I turned 25 on May 20th. It sometimes has been brought to my attention that 1/3 of my life is now over. Which can be a bit daunting to some. I have never been a real fan of birthdays. For some reason I find myself setting lower and lower expectations every year and find myself getting shafted by things not even making those expectations. Lets see last year I had a dinner at the casino buffet and got some coin and a Wok Accessory Kit. A few days later for another dinner I got ditched at a restaurant by my now current girlfriend. But at least one of those things worked out in the end.
I have been told by some that I have a witty style for writing and that most things I say take a turn on the blunt side and come around for an interesting bit of comedy. But for some reason lately I have been feeling a little down about myself. I would really like to get going back to the gym again. But now with my friends being scattered all around the area I find myself facing the wall of working out solo. Which has never really been my ideal situation. I would prefer to push myself harder and generally require a spotter and like someone that has the same workout ethic that I do. I miss going 5 days a week.
So I am sitting here at my computer desk and I look over at my other monitor stand and see a $1 bill in a wooden custom built frame. That was the first dollar I had ever made working on computers. I fixed a guys computer that was running mega slow. Deleted a whole bunch of software. Ran a virus scan and fixed all his shortcuts since they were all copies of copies. I made $51 dollars for that and that $1 is still in a frame to remind me that it all started from $1.
But it’s rather late and the comedy is just not flowing this evening. I don’t have anything witty to say at the moment. I miss updating the world on myself. You come here to read about me and what’s new. Do you have anything you would like to know? What aspect of my site keeps you coming back hoping for an update? I would really like to know.
Much Happiness and Love to All the Readers. I will be talking to you all soon.
-Tristan Pipo
Sometimes I wish I had 1000 monkeys who were on keyboards just typing away epic stories. I could combine them all and put them on a blog. Sometimes I feel like that rogue monkey who found out the password and posts when I find some free time. But free time is something I have been lacking a great deal of. Sometimes blog worthy stories are also lacking. I find time to update twitter on occasion since it’s as easy as popping off an SMS from my phone. Or using Google Talk but still I have been busy with other things.
So I figured I would take the time to tell a story about an experience I had last night. It involved Me, Nick, My Car, A Bird and a Cat. It begins now.
So yesterday happened to be Monday. I am not usually a fan of Monday but what can you do on such a day. Your weekend is over. You are not allowed to sleep in any more. You are forced to wake up at 6:30am. I usually take the time and hit the snooze button for an extra 7 minutes of sleep since I have 7 minutes of leisure time in the morning. I would prefer to use it while sleeping.
But I was not fully rested for my day. So that is why we have this thing called Boys night. Now we haven’t really had time for Boys night lately. Which seems to bother the woman because I am sure she would like me to disappear more often then she lets on. So we actually had the time and resources to have a Boys Night.
As many of you know I really cannot stand to drive. I like my car and it’s fun to drive but it has a few issues that drive me up the wall and just all around prevent me from driving. My turn signals are very flaky all of a sudden. They work when they want to. I have replaced all the bulbs on my car. Replaced all the fuses that have to deal with lights. They work sometimes and other times they don’t. I have yet to figure it out. So I generally try to avoid turning or changing lanes out of the fear of annoying someone. Plus the general stress I have had to deal with caused by all the long driving I had to do when I was in school. 85 miles each way for 3 years was not really a happy time in my life. During rush hour. I just have very little patience while driving and would prefer not to do so when available.
So my car spends a great deal of time just parked in a spot. I carpool with the Raleigh to her work in the morning and then I hop a bus. Coming back I either take the bus and walk 1/2 a mile or sometimes get a ride. Or I somehow manage to catch an earlier bus and get to my girlfriends work when she is getting off and we shuttle off together.
But lets get out of that rathole. Raleigh was the last one to drive my car and she backed it into the parking spot. I pretty much have the worst parking spot in this lot. It has this annoying Cherry Blossom tree that likes to shed all this crap all over my car. I have a black car and the other day it was totally white from all these Cherry Blossoms. So when those all dried up and blew away the tree shed all this brown crap all over my car. Today the tree decided to get further revenge upon me but I was unaware of this event.
So I pull out of the parking area and begin the epic drive down to Renton, WA. Hey turn signals were working so I took the easier route instead of the road less traveled. Get down to Renton without a hitch or any traffic. When I grabbing my bags out of my car I happen to look at the trunk of my car. I see what appears to be a dead creature. Upon first examination it looked like a hairless mouse. But then I saw it had a beak so that theory evolved quickly to bird. But odd part was it was rather small and had no feathers. I pointed this out to my buddy Nick and he was like that is gross. I had to agree with that statement.
So I wanted it off my car and needed to devise a way not to touch it. So to complete this step I opened up the trunk and found some armor all wipes and a towel. So I put an armor all wipe into the towel and picked up the bird. Carried it over across the street and just dropped the dead bird in the grass. Turn around and look at Nick. “It’s taken care of mate” “Good. That was fucking disgusting” “Totally” so I turn around to make sure it cannot be seen. All of a sudden a cat comes out and must have seen what I had done and wanted to check out what I felt unworthy to keep around.
The cat looks up at me reminding me of those photos if I had thought about it I would have taken a picture and put “BIRD I CAN HAZ?” as the caption. The cat just went to town on the dead bird.
Hope everyone is well. I am sorry I haven’t been a more potent blogger just been busy with life and things like blogs get put on the back burner for things like Grand Theft Auto IV. Find me on XBOX live sometime if you desire. I am TristanP.
Leave a comment let me know what’s up or pop off an e-mail. Cheers!
Hello everyone I updated Wordpress the blogging engine behind my site to version 2.5. I must say the new interface is rather sleek and I can’t wait to try out all of the new features. I have been working on a redesign of the site and that should be completed when I find some free time.
I haven’t had much time nor desire to bust out my laptop and login and update the world on my life. Once I get life into a balance I will be back to updating and my normal self. I hope everyone has been well. My contact information has not changed.
But been kinda odd going from a 2 bedroom with a roommate to a 2 bedroom 2 bath with a girlfriend. Odd having rules and things being expected of me. Mostly things that were not a problem before are now a problem. Like WTF it wasn’t a problem before and now it is. Oh well there is always a learning experience.
Cheers!
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