Froyd's Rants

Logitech came through with the headphone replacements, showed up by UPS today.

Going to go put in an offer on a house.

Astronomers have detected a monster star out yonder in space. At first I was totally excited. Perhaps King Ghidora would be attacking soon and live out the epic battles with Godzilla! Or perhaps the star was shaped like Frankenstein, or had issues with lycanthropy like the Wolfman!

But nooooooo. As usual, science lets the imagination down.

Apparently it’s just a gigantic (even more gigantic than usual) burning ball of gas.

*sigh*

So after a particularly hectic Monday between web design (which I should have had off, did some work from home) and the classes, I realized that with the workload teaching that I’d no longer be able to do web work even in the limited capacity it is in. That and I was starting to get burned out again, and they need to hire someone to replace me.

So this morning I typed up my two weeks and turned that in, quitting the job for the second time.

I did so with some sadness, it’s a good job, but time was there to move on. Busy busy college teaching.

One thinks it’s not busy to teach online, but it’s a job. It may be less work than most any other job I’ve had, but it still requires putting your nose to the grindstone and getting things done.

Anyhoosit. Then this afternoon on my break, I received the second phone call interview from Everest College Phoenix. It went really well, and I’m looking forward to starting training in a couple weeks. When you close a door, God decides to throw another one open. And for that I’m thankful.

I’ve been meaning to get three Online teaching jobs since about January. I figured I’d be able to hack it anywhere in the nation teaching online if I had enough classes.

Three colleges were my goal. This way, if enrollment drops (as it is wont to do in the summer) and I’m down to the bare minimum of one class per college, I’m still paying bills.

It is pretty satisfying having your plans align with God’s plans and work out with minimal hassle. Well, minimal hassle outside of patience issues, but that’s only a problem on my end.

Anyway. Good times, I can pay bills! Huzzah!

this may be the most insulting book written to other Christians by other Christians (7th Day adventists).

Tolstoy is not considered a Master without reason. This was an excellent read with some very very insightful things to say on human nature on how people act. Those make for the best novels that stick with you the longest.

The last few chapters were perhaps the most profound in the big questions, but I don’t think that without the rest of the book those observations (on Christianity, scholarship, democracy, the will of the people) would have held up nearly as well. As it is, they are the end note on 800 pages of story through life and death.

It was a very satisfying read.

Warranty replacement was fantastic. They asked me some quesitons, got my information and will be sending me another headset. It may have taken being on hold for fifteen minutes, but well worth it.

Turns out that their warranty is TWO years. Consequently, per the last post, I wouldn’t needed to have purchased the replacement warranty that OfficeMax sold.

Anyhoosit. I highly recommend logitech.

Don’t buy it. They’ll be a little murky on when the warranty goes into effect. What had happened is that I purchased a headset that broke due to accidental damage…but that’s why I had purchased the warranty.

I travel a lot, and carry the computer everywhere, so I figured why not get the warranty?

Turns out it only goes into effect after the Manufacturer’s warranty. Which for a logitech headset is APPARENTLY one entire year. The kicker is that the manufacturer’s warranty doesn’t cover accidental damage.

So I’m stuck with a broken headset and a warranty that is worthless until May 11 2011.

Lesson learned: the ONLY time I’ve ever had luck with an extended warranty has been on laptop computers. Anything else is just a waste of time and money.

In essence, unless you KNOW the exact terms of the warranty, don’t buy it. Don’t buy the MaxAssurance warranty either, because chances are if things will go south, they will do so in the manufacturer’s warranty period…and if the problem isn’t covered by them, then you’ve got to wait around forever and a day in order to redeem your warranty.

As an aside to OfficeMax: Nice capitalistic move there. Too bad you don’t offer something, y’know useful…like a warranty that goes into effect immediately. Oh wait, that’d mean that you wouldn’t be able to make any money. Well played.