F'in' Comcast

I remember the days when if I wanted to buy concert tickets, I would go to ticketmaster.com or go pick up the tickets from ticketmaster at certain stores. Well, comcast has ruined that.

Last year, a friend had told me about Carrie Underwood concert that was going to be at the Liacouras Center. So, I went to ticketmaster to check for the tickets, but I couldn't find them. I had to search her website to find them.

The day of the Metallica concert, I wanted to check to see if they had released any additional tickets, so I once again checked ticketmaster.com. The show was not listed. I thought maybe it was because it was the day of the show, but other cornets for that day were listed. I had to check Metallica's website directly to find out I had to go to the Wachovia Center's website, which is powered by comcast tix.

For Wing Bowl, I had heard that I had to go to ComcastTix.com to purchase the tickets, so I didn't have to search for them.

Tonight, I was checking to see if there were any tickets left for the 2nd Billy Joel & Elton John show (once again, I had hear they were on ComcastTix.com), but the f'ing website is not working. For those two shows only, when I click the link to check for tix, it brings me to a "cannot find page, did you mean...?" search page.

Stupid Mother Fuckers!

I guess I should just go to comcasttix anytime I need tix because it looks like all Philly (and the Sovereign Bank Area in Trenton, which I'm not sure if that's the Tweeter Center or not) are on comcast.

WTF, work?!

Even more pissed off than I am at PennDOT, I'm furious at my work. On Christmas Eve, when it was maybe a little bit slippery out, we had a one-hour delay. It was so not-bad that I didn't even think to check to see if there was delay - I didn't even find out about the delay until 9am-30 minutes after I had gotten there. Apparently, it was icy near some people's houses.

Last week, when we had an inch of snow (and PennDOT had be salting since 7 the night before), we had a one hour delay. It gave me time to stay in bed an extra 10 minutes and clean off my car.

Today, when there are FIVE inches of snow in Conshohocken - NOTHING!

My anger has nothing to do with the fact that I really want a snow day-who doesn't? I think I'm so pissed because at midnight, PennDOT hadn't done a damn thing.

Apparently, both PennDOT and my work only listen to the weather forecast and didn't bother to look out the damn window.

Because of my non-so-fun experience last night, I refuse to drive today, so I'm having my dad drive me in. He spent an hour shoveling, so we're not going to be able to get in on time. Because I'm supposed to be on the board, I had to call one of my co-workers who live near work. She said that should be able to get in on time. Not that I really care, I'm not risking my life to get there, so they'd just have to suck it up.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Driving in the Snow

SUCKS!!

Last week when the weather people were calling for snow, I saw salt trucks while driving to my meeting at 7pm and again while driving home around 11.

Tonight, when it was actually snowing, there was nothing. I got to Philly around 6:30 and that's when snow was starting to stick to the ground. Even if PennDOT didn't believe the weather people (they don't deserve the name "meteorologist" b/c that makes them sound like they're smart), they should have done something once it was actually sticking. Did they? NO! I got out of my meeting, there were a couple inches of snow on my car. It was fluffy, so it was easy to brush off. The problem was the streets were still covered with snow. Even freakin' Broad Street! One of the busiest streets in the city and PennDOT had made no effort to clear it. WTF?!

I decided it would be safest to take I-95 home. I suppose it was, but it still wasn't great. I could tell that it had be salted and/or plowed at some point, but it needed to be redone. It got worse the closer I got to home (probably because it was still coming down). The Blue Route wasn't any better. I was hoping Baltimore Pike would be clear, but it definitely was not.

After finally making it home, I was glad that parking on my side of the street isn't allowed-because that's the only reason I was able to park. There were a couple spots on the legal side, but I couldn't parallel park in this weather. And even though I have a driveway, I didn't want to risk going down the back alley.

Moral of the story: Listen to the freakin' groundhog!! Phil said there was going to be six more weeks of winter-He was right.