Zumba Wii Review pt2

I'm having tons of fun with this. And two things have become painfully odvious to me.

The first is that Zumba is very hard on the ankles. I had no idea how much the dancing would rely on my anckles and ouch. They don't hurt today and didn't hurt after I rested yesterday so I know it's mostly me bing out of shape. But still, ouch.

The second thing is there is only a 20min beginner selection. I would have preferred a 10 min introduction work out. I spent most of my time streching my sore legs and remembering how to breath. Again my own fault, but a 10min selection would have been nice.

Also, a warm up and stretch training would have been nice. They have a cooling off section that didn't realy register on the belt too well. and i feel my whole breathing and most of my musil pains would have been helped but a 5min warm up.

Over all I still love it. It'll be a cold day in hell before I prance around in front of my family, but I love the game.

Amber Alert

While the Amber Alert system was created due to a horrible tragedy, I really love to hear about when it works.

Today driving to work I passed one of our message signs and saw the Amber Alert. Just now my manager says they found the missing child because someone reconnised the car.

The Amber Alert is a fabulous system and I hope it will be continued to be used.

Zumba Wii Review

So, I requested the Zumba work out game for the Wii this holiday season. My mom can't follow it's onscrean directions to save her life (this is extreamly amusing btw) and my cousen started screaming at her husband for video taping her after she said to dance like you don't care.

The set up is very easy. Make a profile, strap the belt on, select your routine, select your profile and then slip the controller into the belt and away you go!

Keep in mind that you need a lot of space for this. At least 5 feet on each side so you don't walk into things/people/walls. and enugh space to back up about 5 feet as well. This is not like Dance Dance Revolution were you are on a designated area and just that area. This is real dancing.

I haven't had a chance to test out the mulity player options but it looks to be a good amount of fun. Again the space needed might make things difficult but no pain no gain. This could make for great Youtube videos.

The routines and training seem to run around 20 min each. You also have the option to unlock new areas and such. The down side is you can only have 4 or 6 profiles.

Over all I am loving it so far.

Blog Posting

I had originally planned to post as often as I could. Thinking that I would have so many posts that I would be set for life. I am laughing at myself now for having such hope that I would have 1-3 post's written per day.

1-3 per day. Why or how I came up with number I'm not sure but holy cow is it insane. Assuming I planned to write 345 days of the year, at that rate I would  be writing 345 - 1,035 posts per year. Right now I have about 23 posted/stored here. It is better then only one a month, but not by much.

Ah, but it was nice to think that I wanted to post so much.

I think I am going to take a few of my post's from an old blog and re-post them here. I'll mark them as such to make life easier for me. I think I have a few old customer sucks and some interesting links. It might work.

Happy Holidays!

And Merry Christmas!

Social taboos aside I have been insanely busy this holiday season. I have no idea why or how I was so busy, just that I was. I am so tired right now. :-(

Also I will never ever go into a supermarket, let alone a liquore store, on December 24th again.

A Liquore store sales guy that must hate their job. Why else would he ask me if i had questions and leave before I could say yes? Then when I hunt him down 10 min later he looked at me then walked away? He had been talking to another sales guy that answered my question for me. I left that store and will probably not go there again.

The second one had what I was looking for, a non-sweet mead, and while busy they waited for me to look at what they showed me to see if i had a question. This place is a part of the shopping center of parking doom, but they have a bigger selection then my little local place that I usaly go to.

The supermarket was a mob scene. I swear to god if my parents wait until the last minuet again I am not running out. We didn't even cook the things they needed me to get.

I know that we are not ready for New Years eve. I'm a sucker so I'll probably be running out tonight for them.

More on Customer of Fail

Dear Customer of Doom,

It was wonderful to hear from you about how complicated your move has become. I am sorry that the owner tried to get you the best price possible back in January when you and your daughter needed to move right away. I am also sorry that you did not make a decision regarding the estimate until April. The first sales agent you dealt with dropped you like a hot coal and the agent that ended helping you out now has a minor nervous tick when your name is mentioned or your number shows on his phone.

Because you and your daughter were living in the same house you two said you would have everything marked so there would be little to know confusion. We were extremely relived that only two of your daughters items ended up going with your items and shipped them to her as soon as we could.

We are also sorry that you rejected the three move dates that would have guaranteed all your items to be on one truck. Instead your items were only half picked up with the rest going to our warehouse to be stored until we had another truck going that way. This was an epic scheduling failure on the part of the larger company that we are an agent of which is why we were willing to help you out as much as we could. Unfortunately we will not pay for your flight that you claim to be scheduled for the day of your move because you refused the other move dates. I am also sorry that you managed to alienate every employee but the owner, in the office that day due to screaming at them. We came to terms with this and now share our survival stories with much laughter.

But please sir, do not call in screaming and ranting about UPS not showing up to pick up the box that we are paying to have shipped to your daughter. We can understand that you were upset but screaming/yelling loud enough that my co-workers two desks down could hear you was not the best thing for my ears. The HR manager was also there at that time.

I do apologize for the small 'coffing fit'. My HR manager had been trying to encourage me to hang up on you and talking of how he could not believe that continuing to try and calm you down to help you. The 'coffing fit' occurred because he realized that the conversation was being recorded and he was giddy to hear it played later.

Again, I am very, very sorry that you were hired to deal the black jack game at the owners batchlor party back in the day and that you managed to use it to strong arm him into moving you agenst all better judgment.

For your records you will be charged storage starting on the first of the year. If you contact us so we can finish delivering your items or give us the address of your new location, we would be more then willing to work out a deal with you. And yes you will still have to pay us the $2,000 you still owe us for your original move.

If we could, sir, we would make ring tones of your ranting and sell them on the internet. We would probably be able to retire on all the profits.

Much love,
The moving company that is an agent for a larger company.













We really don't want to move this guy again. We should not have moved him from the start. But we did and now we are stuck with him. Corporate really didn't help because when he finally decided to move there were no other move going in that direction. There have been so few long distance moves lately it's scary. I personaly think that he refused the other half of his shipment to get us to move him the second time. And the poor girl that was setitng up the UPS pick-up. And the poor UPS people that had to deal with him. :(

Bye November

Holy crap, what happened to November?

I had so much to do for a bead show, that was almost a flop, that I didn't have time to write anything. I don't even think I had anything to write. Which is sad.

Work was stressful and slow.