Arlen Walker

@DeanBlandino I’m curious. I’m seeing a lot of times where an OL bangs into the back of a pile. If they push their own teammates, I get it. But I’m seeing a lot just banging into a defender’s back. Why isn’t that an Illegal block in the back?

@TheMontyDon Just wanted to thank you for the years of advice. Every time I got frustrated with what’s going on in my garden, I’d hear your calm voice in my head, keeping me from ripping everything out and paving it over. You’ve saved the life of more plants than you’ll ever know

Usually I can tell when @homedepot just glues a box shut and puts a return back out on the sale pile. Bought shelves last night, went to assemble them this morning, missing instructions, all the casters, a top post, maybe more. I stopped counting there.

Been having a lot of experience w/ various forms of support at many companies. So far the experience has been against AI forms (notable exception was with Logos). It’s so bad I’m almost to the point where I’ll hang up if I detect silicon on the other end of the line.

For those of you following my @tmobile quest, current status is spending two hours in chat with their customer disservice machine, being told (finally) that they’d cancel the two lines in question, and days later still seeing no evidence that anything at all has been done.

@milwaukeedpw - Anyone else getting tired of searching out and digging out all the ”children” your Honey Locust trees scatter around? They love to nestle in real close to obstacles and plants I want to keep.

Interesting conundrum, @humana: with the proliferation of all the scam calls and ID theft calls, how can you get info from cold-calling customers without training them to give away their info to any competent fraudster? Of course I’m paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

It’s been like pulling teeth to get @amazon / @chase to recognize that my daughter died. They steadfastly refused to deal with the estate rep, and have declined to file a claim against the estate, so we’ve given up on them.

@TMobile gotta say the merger with USCellular is the worst-handled merger I’ve ever seen. Been trying to pay my bill for two months, you keep telling me my phone doesn’t exist.

Trying out @canonusa CameraConect software; it tells me limited access will allow it to add photos, so I grant it, and select the photo to transfer. “NO, gimme full access.” Give you full access, when you’ve already lied to me? Like that’s gonna happen.

@drmoore listening to the bulletin, I’m curious: seeing Hegseth’s prayer, my mind went first to Mark Twain — The War Prayer. Am I the only one?

@rawtheology — for Dr Cohick or Dr Hughes (I’m sorry but my memory refuses to remind me which requested the citation): I think “The past is a foreign country…” is from L. P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between.” Good podcast.

What‘s going on @dominos? Can’t order a pizza!

I don’t know if anyone on the planet could have a more useless chatbot on their customer service line than @we_energies . It just switched to Spanish in the middle of the conversation. Not that it mattered much; it wasn’t answering my question in English, anyway.

And another round battling the broken US healthcare system: @cigna has been billing both my wife and I for her dental coverage. For quite a while. The Whole system is badly designed and inefficiently run.

I swear @turbotax UI gets worse every year. Between the eleventy-seven pleas for me to switch to online, and the doomsday loop when trying to transfer data from last year’s return, I’m thinking it’ll be easier to get out my pen and file by hand this year!

Why do people use @1password? Installed it, it pops up a dialog box I can’t dismiss. Go to web site to figure it out, it says “I’m sticking a marketing tracker cookie on you, and you don’t get to stop me!”

@heykayadams Love the call with Davante Adams. Did you note how he said he checked the weather for going “*down* there?” Chi ain’t “down” from LA; Packer forever. But he doesn’t owe us a thing; whatever he got from us he paid for. Gonna be fun watching him and Stafford ball out!

Listening to my wife‘s blood pressure rising as she calls @humanahelp to complain she hasn’t received her ID card yet, and everything asks for her ID before it will talk to her.