Current Mood: Really Sad

Okay this is beyond ridiculous. I was just looking at The Weather Channel, and it’s 2 degrees COLDER here than in Juneau, Alaska!!!

Here, we have: No pretty glaciers, no pretty polar bears, and no cool seals. Just some evergreen trees interspersed amongst the deciduous ones that’ll look dead for another 3-4 months. And, frozen lakes.

So what do we get for this relatively uninteresting and overly citified landscape here in MI? Do we get warmer winters? Easier traveling? NO! We get to freeze our butts more than the Juneau-ans! Wow, woop-de-doo!!!

*Groans from the depths of my soul*

Florida–I need it BAD!

Current Mood: Meh

After spending the week trying to get motivated, I managed to accomplish some stuff! Two things are now off of my list.

Reuseable grocery bags are now up on Cozy Homewares, and the month’s advertising is now running.

Woop-de-do, huh… Still have to get those products into the Froogle feed, too, since the spiders aren’t yet convinced that that site should be king of the SERPs.

As for next week, I really need to quit stalling on getting the rest of the Escali stuff up. They’ve passed the test run and then some. Not to mention that their stuff looks cool

Nice, huh.

Current Mood: Surprised

Logging into Authorize.net the other day, I was greeted with an unwelcome message on a “splash” screen. Auth.net uses these screens when it wants to make SURE that everyone sees a particular message (especially if there’s something that would require contractual agreement for it to take effect).

The splash screen said basically that they were discontinuing their “Suite” package, and that my merchant/gateway account would have to be split into two accounts (a merchant account and a seperate gateway account)! And, that I had to accept this change soon, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to keep accepting credit cards.

This reeked of something that’d turn into a ball of overwhelming PITA and FUBAR upon implementation, despite their site’s many assurances to the contrary. And, they said that the merchant account would be handled by Wells-Fargo. Even though they said the fees wouldn’t change, I know that Wells-Fargo has much higher fees than what I’m paying, so I figured that it wouldn’t be long before they actually *would* be changed…even if they refrained from doing it immediately.

Strangely, I thought at the time, they didn’t have an actual “new contract” screen come up, nor any “accept” button. I figured that they just hadn’t put it up yet and that I’d catch it at the next login.

But today, I got emails from Authorize.net telling me that this “splash” screen had been a mistake! It was only supposed to show up for a certain part of their customer base–a part which does NOT include me!! So, my accounts will remain as they are. No new contracts to accept, no impending horrible technological and records mishmash, no big Wells-Fargo fee-beast laying in wait for the time when “you said ‘your rates will not change’” can be reasonably countered with “hey, we didn’t mean NEVER.”

In other words, them showing me that screen was an “oops!” And this is when “Oops!” is a good thing to read.