I don’t know if anyone actually remembers when Blockbuster Online broke back into the market. I know I do. It was the day I switched from Netflix. Blockbuster was offering a free rental with every DVD mailer you brought in to the store. At the time I think it was one dollar more than netflix, which is a screaming deal. A few months ago they bumped that price up to $24.99 which a lot of people were upset with. I rent a ton of movies and was notified of this in more than enough time to cancel if I wanted. I was also automatically switched to the similarly priced plan with only 5 in store rentals per month at the time of switch. A little annoying but was no big deal to change. I have been enjoying it since. Until today …
Today I logged in and checked my bank account balance. It was lower than it should have been. I quickly recognized the culprit. It was a charge from Blockbuster for $10 more than normal. I immediately went to thier website to check my billing invoice and figure out why it was there. No invoices to be found. Just the date, credit card it was placed on, and the ammount. I then checked my subscription plan and noticed it magically went up to $34.99 per month. I had gotten no email, no snail mail, no notifications what so ever that this was happening. I can get 4 at a time from Netflix for that price, and with Blockbusters deteriorating turn-around time it would be just as many movies! Blockbuster is fucking up big time, and they just lost yet another customer.
I have been blogging now for about a year and a half and one difference I have noticed between my blog and the blogs I read is the participation level. Granted some of the blogs are read are written by the social elite of the bologosphere, but even some of the lesser blogs get more participation than I do. It’s not like I don’t get any readers, I check my stats regular and get almost 1000 unique visitors on average each month, many of them repeat visitors. My question is this, what am I doing wrong? Does my content suck? Does my quality of writing suck? If you are a reader who visits often or semi-regularly, please respond. Let me know your opinion on what you want to see. Even if you just stumbled upon my blog, take a few minutes and read through some of my archives and let me know what I am doing wrong. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!
I know I haven’t been writing much at all lately. I have had alot of shit on my mind that is pretty much all coming down at once. I had my trip to Phoenix and I had a blast. I didn’t want to leave at all. I knew that would be a bad idea since everything I owned was in Boston. I decided to come back and move to Phoenix the right way. Upon arriving back and going back to work I started dealing with alot of bullshit and I just can’t deal with it anymore.
I am doing something I never though I would do. I am picking up and leaving without any significant amount of planning. I have quit my job that I can’t stand and I am going to try and get a part time job that I can work for a few weeks until I leave. I have enough money to get me a plane ticket to Phoenix. I am willing to leave whatever I can’t take with me here and sell off whatever I can get some money for. I have a place to stay in Phoenix and I have a few job leads there too.
I really just can not stand it here anymore. I never really liked it here but I just waited it out because I thought it might get better. It hasn’t and I have a great life in Phoenix waiting for me with lots of good friends.
I won’t go into the reasons that I came to this decision as they are not very characteristic of me, but I think its about time I did something to surprise myself and everyone else. I guess we will see how it all turns out :)
It’s #21! I am going to try very hard not to get arrested … wish me luck =)
