{"id":22,"date":"2012-07-16T03:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=22"},"modified":"2022-06-17T21:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:09:02","slug":"some-things-to-celebratefor-me-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"SOME THINGS TO CELEBRATE…FOR ME, ANYWAY."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I know it’s been more than a month since I published a blahg.\u00a0 I tried…really I did.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>\"ScottI sat down to write this blahg and my server went down and I lost part of the blahg.\u00a0 So, many things happened since then and I’m going to try and get to them all now.\u00a0 First, the Toshiba saga is done.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>I’m going to start off with that because I’ve paid far too much attention to Toshiba and they deserve none of it.\u00a0 The end to my Toshiba experience is one of the things I have to celebrate.\u00a0 It took two months of persistent phone conversations with far too many representatives of Toshiba.\u00a0 I’ve been very clear that this is not the way customer service should be<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 But let’s close this experience.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>The last interaction with Toshiba that I noted was that I returned my BDX2155KC to Toshiba via UPS on May 23rd.\u00a0 In the box, I had included a letter requesting a phone call from Toshiba to tell me they had received the Blu-Ray player and a subsequent phone call providing a tracking number for the replacement BDX 2300.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By Friday, June 1st, I had heard nothing from Toshiba so I decided to try Mike’s personal number to make yet another inquiry.\u00a0 I was put through to his voice mail and I left a detailed message requesting an update.\u00a0 Mike finally called me back around noon on Monday, June 4th.\u00a0 He explained that there had been a delay in sending out my replacement BDX 2300 but it had been sent out late Friday afternoon (sure, after I called and left a message asking for it!).\u00a0 I was provided with a tracking number that I checked online and verified that the Blu-Ray Player had been shipped and I further discovered it was out on the truck for delivery to me.\u00a0 Unfortunately I had to go out and missed the Purolator delivery (yes, Purolator, even though everything had been UPS up to that point).\u00a0 When I got home later, I found a delivery card and arranged for Jeanette to pick up the BDX 2300 at the Purolator depot the next day.\u00a0 Cut to the chase.\u00a0 It was the BDX 2300 and I hooked it up and to my delight found that the USB port that had been on the rear of the <\/span><\/strong>BDX2155KC was on the front of the BDX 2300.\u00a0 Finally, Toshiba got something right.\u00a0 I inserted a USB drive and played a one hour file from beginning to end and the machine did not shut down.\u00a0 If you’re confused about all of this then read my previous entries because I’m done with Toshiba now.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The title of this blahg is “Some Things To Celebrate…” and I want to get onto more important things.\u00a0 Yes, I celebrate the fact that I finally got something from Toshiba but there wouldn’t have been cause for celebration if Toshiba Customer Service had done their job right in the first place.\u00a0 But as I said, enough about Toshiba and more about those other things to celebrate.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On May 30th, of this year, Jeanette and I celebrated 25 years of marriage.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\"Cutting<\/a> In my family, other than my parents and my sister and her husband, there hasn’t been a great track record in marriages.\u00a0 Twenty-five is a milestone that you don’t make every day and I want to take a moment to celebrate that.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>We did have a nice gathering of some friends and family and there was way too much food left over.\u00a0 My son took lots of photos but I’ll only share this one of us looking happy and cutting the cake. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ten years ago I created a DVD Picture Show as a gift to Jeanette on our 15th Anniversary.\u00a0 I had scanned in many old photos and created slideshows to music of our life together and separate ones of each of our children.\u00a0 All of the slideshows were set to the music of Frank Sinatra (surprise, surprise).\u00a0 Sinatra had recorded songs with the names of two of our children:\u00a0 “Emily” & “Noah” but there was nothing in his repertoire with the name of “Abbie”.\u00a0 With a little creative license I utilized the song “Pocketful of Miracles” which is nice child like song that Sinatra recorded with a children’s chorus.\u00a0 For the menu, I chose the song “You Will Be My Music”, which was the Sinatra song at our wedding.\u00a0 For the slideshow of us as a couple, I chose Sinatra singing “As Time Goes By”.\u00a0 I’d like to share that with you here: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n