Tuesday Recap

Too many little blog items to separate into separate blogs so I want to blog about yesterday overall:

- I am getting a new cellphone. The one I have right now, I have had it for over 2 years and the antenna is broken. Rogers is offering some discount off of a new phone. I was told I could pick it up at any Rogers outlet so I went to the mall. The guy was very helpful there but when he found out I have a corporate account he told me he couldn’t help me because that location doesn’t have the right permissions. He tells me about a rogers store that they are affliated with just 2 minutes away from the mall. I ask them if they are still open and the guy says “Yes”. So I go there and find the the place CLOSED. My last ditch effort was to go to a Rogers video store. We went into one and the guy said he also didn’t have the correct permissions to access corporate accounts but he might have been able to get around it if we had come in earlier because somebody would have picked up at Rogers. I don’t blame any of these guys behind the desk but the person who told me over the phone that I could set this up anywhere, I am not happy with them.

- The “Swirsk” is leaving the GTA to go to Chicago. This makes me sad. He says it is for family reasons but I read a news article from Chicago that doesn’t mention that angle. Chuck Swirsky has been doing the play-by-play for the Toronto Raptors for 10 years. He brought an excitement level that I think was un-paralleled. Were his jokes corny? Yes but that was part of his charm and for the sport to grow here in Canada, the Raptors need more guys like Chuck. Chuck loved it here so much that earlier this year he became a Canadian citizen. I hope that whatever family obligations he has in Chicago isn’t too serious and I wish him the best of luck, he will be missed.

- Cyber Empires cheats. I think I remembered why I usually pick the black fist to be my army because it usually makes its moves first. Let me explain, I am beside a country with my enemies in it. I choose to attack them. I expect when we actually go to war, that I will be attacking them, not defending myself from their attack. I like being on the offensive. This hurts me in some situations when I try to attack and get out of a certain country and before I can, I get attacked by a different country and suddenly find my cyborgs at half strength when they finally go on the offensive. Has any one else noticed this problem?