Today was a communications nightmare for me.

Sprint PCS has this very nasty way of treating its customers. They give you a pre-set spending limit and then the day that your bill is printed, if you go over that limit, they shut off your phone with the news coming via the means of a text message.

I don’t normally complain about bills and such, but when did the concept of Net-30 Day payment terms mean shutting off service the day your bill is printed? This is the second time this has happened to me. This first time also co-incided with a change in my usage plan.

Sprint also has this habit of not allowing you to know how many minutes you have used for the entire month that you are in a new plan. I was trying to be more thrifty a few months back and explored my usage finding that I was paying for 1400 minutes a month, but only using on average 700. So I dropped my plan to 1100 minutes to save $20.00 a month. That cost me an extra $120.00 for the first month. Realizing I’d made a mistake I put it back, costing me only $89.73.

On top of my Sprint nightmare, my local phone monopoly, SBC Communications, came out to fix the static on my line and decided the line needed to be turned off all day to do that, leaving me without communications for the majority of the day.

This wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, but I work from home alot and need all the communications options I can get.

Thank GOD my Cable internet wasn’t down so I could still look at my porn. I don’t know what I would do without that!!!

In a different direction, I think it may be time for me to find a benefactor. Not a Sugar Daddy, cause they would expect you to have sex with them. I just want someone to pay my bills. Sure, I’ll be nice to them while they hand me a check, I’d even polish a shoe here or there if the checks were big enough.

I’m going to go for a walk down to the beach and watch the sunset over the city. Its been way too long since I’ve spent time on the lakefront.