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Name: Daisy
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 8/6/1983
Gender: Female
Interests:
::loves::
talking to someone
who wants to talk to you too
::hates::
being alone
and saying goodbye
::film::
i not stupid
needing you,
tian mi mi,
the last unicorn,
wu yen,
shaolin soccer,
god of cookery,
love undercover,
ocean's eleven,
chicago
::music::
all american rejects,
good charlotte,
hang on the box,
t.a.t.u,
jewel,
tori amos,
sara mclaughlin,
jay chou,
david tao,
jacky cheung,
modest mouse,
beyond,
utada hikaru,
sun yanzi
::anime::
kare kano,
cowboy beebop,
naruto,
escaflowne
::pages::
the good
women of china,
the last unicorn,
pride and prejudice,
grimms fairytales,
hans christians
anderson's fairytales
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Member Since:
8/22/2004
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| Travel by Plane - A Cautionary TaleIt was an early early Tuesday morning on what should have been an exciting business trip to Chicago (a first with my new company). But that's where this tale of unbelievable tale of unfortunate events begins. My flight on Southwest from Oakland to Chicago was scheduled to take off at 7am PST; I woke up at 5:55am PST.....I think you can all guess now where this is going.
In the matter of 2-3 minutes, David and I hauled ass to get dressed, load the car and drive to the airport. Just as a refresher, I live in Richmond while the Oakland airport is in Alameda, a distance of 20 miles. We drove fast and furious......well, as fast as you can move in the beginnings of the Bay Area's early morning commute. As David is driving, I am assembling the last of my morning ensemble when I realizes that I left my glasses behind. The good news though is that I have 2 sets of my disposable contact lens in my suitcase and a pair of prescription sun glasses.....but who wears sunglasses before the sun is even up and in doors no less.
We get the airport by 7:30am PST and I am dropped off at the curb. I look ahead and SCORE---there is no line at the check-in counter. I get my pseudo boarding pass and check-in my suitcase, which was then promptly tagged as "LATE". What does that mean, I asked? "It means it may not make it on this flight, so we'll put it on the next flight which is only 30 minutes behind your flight" says the attendant. Sounds good to me, I thought. Then the attendant adds that I need to get through security ASAP. I turn to my left and there is the bloody line.
As make my way patiently through the line, I call my boss to let her know that I am here. She says to hurry, but that also the plane only just arrived. At this point, its about 7:42am PST. I stood in line some more, then as I reach the piles of buckets, I get another cell phone call and am told to hurry. Once again, I acted fast to drop everything into my row of three buckets --- carry on bags, laptop, shoes and jacket. I rush through the security screen only to hear it beep....damn. I walk back and dump my watch and sunglasses into the mini bucket then run back through the screen and grabbed all my belongings and pack it up. At this point, I make the mad dash to the terminal.
It is 7:55am PST and I am fading fast (Did I ever mention that I am not built to run?) so I begin to speed walk my way over. I get to the gate and am stopped by the attendant and sent to customer service for a real boarding pass. If you may recall, I had only received a pseudo ticket earlier. So there I go, mad dash to the customer service counter. The rep gives me my ticket and calls out to the terminal door "Wait! One more!"
By 8:00am PST, I have made it through the boarding gateway and find my boss who has saved me a seat. Good god, I made it. I am sweating bullets and panting like a crazy woman. The worst has now passed, or so I thought. Little did I know, I left a rather valuable item on the security clearance conveyer belt. What could it be you ask? My laptop.
But rest assured there is a happy end and some good FYI information for you at the moral of this tale. Should you ever leave something at the security check and not realize it until you have boarded your plane and landed at your final destination, you can rest assured that they will take your item to lost and found. But here are the steps for you:
1) Go to the customer service center at baggage claim and ask them for the number of the airport where you lost said item.
2) Call the airport and ask them to direct you to lost and found.
3) ID your item and let them know that you will send someone to pick it up/Or will pick it up when you return.
3 fairly easy steps for recovering your belongs, be it a laptop, shoes, bags or jacket.
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| Karen Neuburger Sale Events for Friends & FamilyIn other news, I have started on a new career path with KN Karen Neuburger, a lifestyle brand known for the pajamas and comfort lifestyle products. To kick things off, you are all welcomed to a "friends and family event" happening online from Nov 19-26. See link below for coupon code:
http://view.onestopinternet.com/view_email.aspx?j=fe8a1675726d077873&m=fefb12707d6006&ls=fdf715737667047e7d137770
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| Flickr...YOU SUCK!!!!After spending about two days trying to login and/or reset my password for flickr, I am moving on to Picasa. That account is absolutely obsolete and I will be waiting for it to completely expire.
Here's the extended story:
I forgot the password to my flickr account, which normally should not be a big deal. Just fill in some personal information and answer some questions and the reset option should just happen quick and easy. That's where my story goes sour. Apparently, I have two yahoo accounts and apparently the account tied to my flickr account was formally associated with ATT/SBC Global. This meant that instead of resetting my password as I had expected, I was instead directed to call the SBC customer service line. Here's the problem....I am not an SBC customer, not anymore at least. The only time I had an SBC account was when I subscribed to AT&T's dsl service, which is still being used by my old roommates. I called SBC customer service (twice) and the service people didn't know what I was talking about and would either tell me that they couldn't help me or try to direct me to yahoo or direct me to the yahoo password reset page. I then tried to contact help@flickr.com....surely they new how to help me. Nope, no good here either. They also directed me to the Yahoo password reset page.
I hereby renounce everything bought by Yahoo! because you have been a pain in the rear. If you should buy more product or if I should find out that you own some product that I am using, I will renounce you again and again.
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| Mission to BostonBrian: When are you shipping out?
Me: Tomorrow morning, I deploy.
Brian: haha, okay....armed with a standard issue DS Lite?
So tomorrow, I'll be heading on my first real "Business Trip" to Boston where I will be training America's senior citizens on the way of the Wii and the DS Lite....yes, you read correctly...for three days, I'll be playing WiiSports and Brain Age 2. Should be fun. Wish me luck, I'll be back on Sunday.
BTW, I got a haircut....before and after pictures coming soon.
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