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Monday, January 25, 2010

What is customer service
1- An automated computer system that works you around in circles. For this press 1, for that press 2
2- A computer system that tries to understand the english language. "I'm sorry,I did not understand the last word you said, please press 5 and try again".
3- A live person, that happens to be in India. The person learned the english language last week and is trying it out on you.
4- An answering system that tells you that due to a large volume of calls, they cannot answer your call, and then hangs up.
5- An email system that give automated responces like a copy of the web page that you just read.
6- At last, a human being that speaks clear english language. Unfortunantely it is their first day, and they have to transfer you to one of the above choices. Before they pass you on they exclaim, have a nice day. As you are swearing at the person not to transfer you, you hear the sound of a dial tone.

Friday, January 22, 2010

In the Muskegon Chronicle there was a letter to the editor from a person who was complaining that an organist was playing too loud. Days later another person responded by saying that this was not the venue for objecting to this. Church organist/pianist are a dying breed. Many churches have gone to electronic music, or just guitars. People don't realize that given time, you may not hear that organ at all. Some day when the power goes out, someone will look at that keyboard and ask,"Does anyone know how to play this thing?" To that organist, "play louder, they still can't hear you."

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Why do church people like to fight. Is it the thought that"I'm right and you are wrong"? Through out history, churches have fought with others and themselves. You would think that history has shown that there are no winners, only losers.
Remember the song,"my dogs better then your dog"? Some have rewritten it to say, "My God's better then your God".

Monday, January 18, 2010

Monday morning starting over. Liz and I just got back from our 30 min walk. We were going to go to the Y, but then realized it was MLK Jr. birthday, and all the kids are out of school. That means that the Y would be real busy.
I didn't go to church yesterday. I still have mixed emotions about where to go and why I am going. Socially it is nice to see people, but then does that make it a social club?
My hand look terrible. I went into the ER on Saturday, and they said I have a ganglion cyst. It look and sounds alot worse then it is.
I just can't believe the Haite situation. I heard that The Rev. Pat Robertson said the reason the quake struck there was because they had sinned and God let the devil do his stuff. Pat need a reality check and his medications increased.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

I know that I haven't blog lately. Alot has been going on.
I am now completely retired. I quit the part time janitorial job. When you work for the church you are attending it is very hard. The job had fit my condition very well, but along came someone else who wanted the job, and the demands on me were tripled, so much to the point it was effecting my heart and my soul. Obviously this takes a chunk out of our income, so we had to make cutbacks.
Liz and I are starting the YMCA to try to get in better shape. With both of us with health limitations, I think we will start up slowly.
We visited Unity church last week, as we explore the possibility and changing churches. We were warmly greeted, but their piano player is very different. I will try to stay updated to all those thousands of people that read this blog.