Pizza Hut - Ordering over the Web

I was sitting in the living room watching the NCAA Tournament and wanted to get something to eat. My wife wanted wings and I wanted a pizza. The local bar down the street has good wings, but that required getting in the car and going out in the rain, so it looked like pizza.

The next challenge was which pizza place to call. We have about 5 or 6 that deliver and then it occured to me that Pizza Hut was now offering delivery and I could put together an order on the web.

I went to the PC and went to the Pizza Hut site and found out that I already had an account that I created before. It pulled up my default local store, and I selectd it and went off to create my order. It took a while to create the odrer since ther were many options and I was new to the site.

When I was all done, it turned out that the location that I was ordering from was not delivering that night. Now why did it not tell me that before I went through all the steps to create the order? My guess is that once I had all the time invested they thought that I would just jump in the car and go pick it up.

Wrong – I ended up not getting the pizza and don’t know when I will go through the effort on their website again.

Paying my MCI bill

I get an automated call from MCI today asking me to call in to verify my account. Turns out that they are looking for a payment and it's their fault that they did not get it.

A few months ago, they sent me a payment reminder and part of the reminder was that I could pay my phone bill via credit card by checking box 1 and hitting "go". There was also a box 2 that I could click to set it up so that I could pay it going forward via credit card each month automatically.

The problem came in where I was given the two options. When I selected the second option, I would have expected that it would have paid the current bill, and then set up the automatic payment process going forward.

Not at MCI. I was set up for the automatic payments, but it did not pay the current amount that the reminder was sent to me for in the first place.

What a pain in my.......

Windows XP CD required to add Windows options

I tried to send a fax from my laptop today to the IRS of all people. When I selected the "Set Up Faxing" within the Faxes and Printers section of the control panel, it came back asking for the Windows XP CD. When is the last time you actually got the XP CD's with you laptop. They always include some form of OEM software that supposedly has all the stuff you need, but I could not get it to work.

I don't understand why microsoft does not allow you to go to their web site to add a component like this. If they are worried about you stealing their software, then the horse is already out of the barn, because you you have windows installed.

They need to really safeguard their core component of the operating system and then allow you to install all the others that you need. They allow you to upgrade and download the media players..... I guess that they want you in that space to sell you something else.

Matrix Marathon

I was watching TV last night and at 10:00pm flipped the channel to HBO and one of the Matrix movies was on. I tuned in a few minutes late and was not able to tell which one of the movies it was and hoped it was the III one since I had not see that one. After a few minutes I figured out that it was the first one, but since I had not sat a watched it in a few years and never really watched it start to finish I decided to watch it.

After about hour I noticed the HBO guide beside me on the nightstand and picked it up to see when the third one was on and to my delight it was on later that night. After the first one, came the second one, and finally the third one starting at 2:40am. Since I was in a hotel there was no way to TiVo it, so I was screwed.
Ended up staying up to watch the second one, but could not convince myself to stay up to watch the third one since I needed to get up at 7:00am.

Pisses me off that they started the three movie set at 10:00pm – had the done it at 8:00pm, I could have justified watching the third movie starting at 12:40.

So bottom line I still don’t know how the Matrix ended.