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Home in NY. Not happy.

Tried the Magic Jack Dad bought for me so I could have long distance on my phone and not have to use my cell phone, but it and my computer don't agree with each other, so no go on that. I don't talk on the phone anyway and have been so withdrawn lately I wouldn't really know who to call, but it would've been nice not to have to load up the Katana when I need to call the other home. (Speaking of my other home, what is with all the signage for Ron Paul? Last week there was a group of people holding up signs telling people to vote for him. What the hell.)

Mom now does not want to bother with my hair, opting instead to do it tomorrow. I'd do it myself, but I can't get everything clean after I've had my braids in for so long. Mom doesn't have as much hair as I do and hers is easier to manage. I need someone to help with mine. So, I have to wait until tomorrow, after work and Curves, which means I'll actually get home later than we have today. I don't want this in my head another minute, so I'm a bit disappointed. It was supposed to get done this weekend. Saturday Mom came up in the morning and we went out to run errands, and today she was busy doing all the stuff Dad never does (dishes, three loads of laundry), so she didn't have the time.

AND, I switched messenger bags because mine is old and worn, and I got everything out of the old bag but my MetroCard (which sits in a side pouch that's very easy to forget about), so I have to buy one to hold me until mine gets down here; Dad's sending it.

Still aggravated about my hair. -_- I won't get out of Curves until nearly six, won't get home until about 6:30, and my hair probably won't be out until seven at the earliest, but most likely later. Then we have to wash it and detangle it?

I hate my hair. It's the one part about being black I can't stand.

... And rent went up $190. Meh.

So I got Dad nervous about the magicJack.

I went to their website earlier to see if I could find technical support forums. There are none. The official forum is down. There's tech chat and sales chat, both of which I've read are rude and unprofessional. (It's supposed to be a small organization, but I don't care how small you are, if your live support sucks, they need firing.) The site has absolutely no contact information on it other than the chats, if you can count that. No address, no phone number, no e-mail. The package it comes in has no return address. Everything is supposed to have a return address. They don't want you returning it. If they gave you a return address and canceling your 30-day free trial is as hard as I've read, all you'd probably have to do is take it to the post office and return it and get a certificate of mailing and delivery confirmation to see exactly when it was delivered, and if they got it back within the 30 days, they'd have to refund your money. I think. I'm not sure how the whole thing works, but the logic makes sense to me.

And then I saw the FCC logo at the bottom, while I was on the phone with Dad telling him about some of the problems people have been having, and that is not their logo. Turns out it may be an old version of the logo, but the lack of contact info's kind of put some fear into Dad now. XD;; I've never seen anything like that, though. There's always a company name, an address, something. And I saw something about it taking over your computer and preventing you from hibernating/sleeping, and having conflicts with a bunch of programs, and... yeah, I don't think I'll be putting it on here. Maybe there's a good reason it wouldn't install on this computer. ^^; It's also completely without an uninstaller, doesn't even show up in Add/Remove Programs (which Dad confirmed), and it's one of those things you have to jump through hoops to get rid of, kind of like the stuff Kazaa used to put on computers back in the day. The counter that supposedly counts how many people got a free trial is a script that just increases at about one number per second. Roughly. It's a little longer than a second. Maybe a couple.

Dad may be coming down tomorrow to renew his pass for work (which he has to do in person), so he might bring my laptop down, and I'll create a restore point when I get home and try to install it on the laptop. Maybe. I do not like the lack of contact info. The things work for some people now, and that's great, but warning bells are going off in my head about it. I wonder if they'll be around a year or even six months from now... which is funny to think about since there are packages where you can sign on for up to five years.

Anyway, it's after eleven. I bought some Simply Sleep while we were out yesterday, and I'm hoping it keeps me asleep through the night. Waking up at two or three in the morning and being unable to go back to sleep sucks. The therapist, when I mentioned it to her, took it as my mind waking me up for some "me"/art time; she knows I'm an artist and that's when artists usually get their creative juices flowing. And that's what I used to do before I started working. I wouldn't start drawing until one in the morning and would stay up for the next four hours doing it, especially when I wasn't in school OR working. Looking at it that way kind of sugarcoats the situation, though. Getting up and drawing would be nice, and it's also the only time I have alone, but it wouldn't change the fact that I'd be absolutely exhausted in the morning. Exhaustion + work = pissy!CJ. So I have to look for a way to keep myself asleep. And that's where the pills come in. I'll see how they work this week.