Denied

Blogger is being a little weird tonight. So, as you can probably tell, it's not allowing me to change the settings. It's also not remembering defaults.

Today was a decent day at work. All stats in line. I came home and went for a run, which concluded at the mailbox. I finally got a letter from Wells Fargo regarding my request for hardship forbearance. Big. Fat. No. "There must be 12 months between forbearances." That wasn't in the fine print of my application paperwork. Yes, I read it.

It's not that we're actually under financial hardship right now, but this loan is too expensive. Several months ago I called to see if we could reconfigure it and make the payments more manageable. Big. Fat. No. "Private loans serviced by Wells Fargo cannot be refinanced."

Dear Wells Fargo, I seem to remember the government handing you a $25,000,000,000 check, basically federalizing your company. But, of course, I'm reaching, as we all happily ignored the technicalities of what the bailouts meant for the public.

Nothing like a little red tape to ruin a perfectly good day. Now I'm just pissed about the government in general.

"Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes, not need, just feed the war cannibal animal..."

Good night!

The Social Network

We finally watched The Social Network tonight.  I found it completely nihilistic.  I don't necessarily mean that to be a bad thing.  But, as an audience member, it's weird to watch a bio pic in which the main character remains static.  I mean, there is literally no development at all.  I suppose that's truer to real life.  Not all of us evolve.

There's a lot of talk about what Facebook and other social networking has done to our society, namely our sense of self and the way we communicate.

After watching the film, I'm pretty willing to believe that subconsciously Mark Zuckerburg wanted to pass his social neurosis (preferring passive interaction and observation over active participation) on to the general population and even the playing field.  Maybe it was just the icing on the cake.

Roughly a year ago, Facebook hit 500 million members.

Netflix passed 20 million in February.

Facebook was launched in 2004.

Netflix launched in 1997.

Facebook has over 2,000 employees.

So does Netflix.

Facebook is free and is worth somewhere between $50 and $65 billion depending on who you ask.

Netflix has varying subscription prices, the lowest $4.99, and is worth about $2 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, 27

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, 50

(Hey, Andrea, Hastings served in the Peace Corps).

Anyway, that was incredibly random.  Good night!

Capitalization

Dear McDonald's marketing executives,

If you're going to put a period at the end of a statement, please capitalize the first letter.

photos sourced from Google images

Your disgusting company is destroying the health of our nation; leave our literacy alone.

Thank you,

An overtired, concerned citizen

****

I get cranky when I've been up for 17 hours.

In other news, does anyone have any tips on keeping cats from being too rough with each other?  We're not home when it happens, but Ava's other eye is swollen now and I've seen them play fight so I know that Satchmo has a pension for biting eyeballs.  I'm concerned about any potential damage down the road, but I don't know what to do.