I added Comcast Digital Voice to my Comcast bill which they told me would be $14.95 a month for a year. I asked the sales rep twice about the promotion and he said $14.95.

I got my first bill and noticed the following:

• Digital Voice was not $14.95 it was $39.95!
• They added a Services Protection Plan at $.99 a month that I did even know about or ask for.
• They added Starz for $19.99 that I didn’t ask for either.

So I called them and they gave me the following discounts:

• Phone for $19.99 a month for 6 months.
• Internet $29.99 for 12 months.
• Starter cable $29.99 for 12 year.

What is up with this automatic opt-in stuff! That needs to stop.

It sucks that I have to call them and wait through all their phone prompts to tell them I DON’T WANT IT. A phone call like that can take at least 10 minutes – what a freakin’ waste of my time.

I was flying down Coalton trail and I got two flat tires at the same time which never happens. It happened at the steepest part.

Jenny is holding the inner tube that I put 7 patches on and it was still flat the next day!

We got a new digital camera today (7/11/09), the Sony DSC-W290 ($250).

Sony DCS-W290

The one you see in the middle is the FujiFilm FinePix F10 6.3 megapixel (which Jamie recommended) got to picture 9999 and lost 100 pictures (I did recover them) we took on Ridgeway lake near Ouray CO out on the boat with the girls tubing, so we couldn’t trust it any more. We got about 3.5 years, and 10,000 photos of it.

FujiFilm FinePix F10

As you can see below the amount of use for this camera on Flickr has been declining in the past year.

The camera on the left is my first digital camera the Sony DSC-P5 3.2 megapixel which I think I paid over $475 for. I got 6,400 pictures out of this camera from 4 years of use.

Sony DSC-P5

And my first camera before that was a Olympus Stylus analog film camera. Not sure on the model # but it took great photos which I recently had scanned. I got 1,400 pictures out of this camera from 13 years of use.

Olympus Stylus

One of the things I have figured out over the years is to buy a camera with a a great battery, because once it dies and you can’t buy a replacement you have to buy another camera.

Pictures from working at Acoustical Design Group and Coffeen Fricke and Asc.

Yes, I know it is sad that I am drinking Coors Light and David and Eddie are drinking “real beers”.