Author: Jesse

Adventures in Parenthood: Vol. 1, Part 1 1

Adventures in Parenthood: Vol. 1, Part 1

I always felt ill-prepared for parenthood. I only have one sibling and never really helped raise babies. What I knew about kids would fit into a thimble. Sure, I like kids. I get along great with nephews and neices. But...

Mark Towner Threatens to Sue Me… Again 4

Mark Towner Threatens to Sue Me… Again

I think the headline pretty much says it all. After mentioning the previous dust-ups between me and him in my last blog post, Mark decided to threaten to send me "legal service" yet one more time. And do we recall...

Hey Equality Utah? Spam is a bad way to get your message out. Just sayin'. 5

Hey Equality Utah? Spam is a bad way to get your message out. Just sayin'.

Anyone who's been reading the blog for a while knows that I don't much care for spam. Aside from the epic battle with Mark Towner (who has since appropriately faded away into obscurity where he belongs), I've also called out...

Getting Customer Satisfaction With Twitter 1

Getting Customer Satisfaction With Twitter

One of the few shortcomings of my phone has been an inability to send MMS messages, an odd thing for a phone with pretty much every feature known to man. It's not been much of a problem for me, though...

A Shopper Bites Back, Redux: The Letter From Visa 3

A Shopper Bites Back, Redux: The Letter From Visa

Visa followed-up today with a letter regarding my complaint against Saturn of Salt Lake attempting to require ID. The short version? I'm in the right and they're going to follow-up on the complaint. Click on the picture below to see...

A Shopper Bites Back (or, Thanks, Consumerist, for giving me a consumer backbone) 8

A Shopper Bites Back (or, Thanks, Consumerist, for giving me a consumer backbone)

As I've previously mentioned, I'm pretty sick and tired of being asked to show ID whenever I try to use a credit card for purchases. Not only does it do nothing to protect either party from fraud, it's also expressly...

The Calm Before the Storm 5

The Calm Before the Storm

It's been a while since we've posted anything around here. We're really down to the wire on the whole baby thing. Shauna is scheduled for a C-section on Wednesday and we (and by we, I mean Shauna's mom) have been...

You Can Find Anything on Craigslist These Days 5

You Can Find Anything on Craigslist These Days

Shauna found the following ad on Craigslist: FREE BACON: Oscar Mayer brand… there are 8 slices left, they seem to be pretty good sized. I had some friends stay with me over the holiday… they only used a few slices…...

A Bunch of New Pictures 1

A Bunch of New Pictures

I just uploaded a bunch of family pictures and other random stuff and neglected to mention some time ago that Shauna uploaded a bunch of Liam's ultrasound pictures. Go to the photo gallery and check them out.