Friday afternoon my sister asked me if I had an American Express card.
I do.
“Did you get your free money?” she asked. I had no idea what
she was talking about.
“If you have an American Express card you can get a $25.00
credit if you use the card to patronize any of their small business clients on
Small Business Saturday.”
I didn't get that memo. Fortunately, it wasn't too late so I
went to the website and signed up. Last night, after I got home, I picked up a
six pack of New Belgium 1554 from Kelly’s Liquors in Ellicott
City , realizing a net gain of about fifteen bucks.
That’s the good.
Last night Mama Wordbones and I decided to catch the eight o’clock
showing of Lincoln at the AMC Theatres in
downtown Columbia .
I purchased the tickets around six o’clock on Fandango. Unlike the Regal Cinemas at Snowden, the AMC Theatres do not allow you to print out the actual
ticket at home. For AMC you need to pick up at the box office or at one of
their automated ticket stations outside the entrance. At the downtown AMC Theatres there are five of these. Last night only one was functioning. The line
for remaining machine rivaled that of the box office. We decided to split up to
cover both in the event that one turned out to move faster.
They both moved slowed. After a time, a gentleman in an AMC
shirt stepped out of the doors of the theatre and started talking into a
microphone. The sound quality was on par with that a subway car announcement
and nobody around me at least could make out a single word he said. Someone yelled out and
asked him if the customer service window was open. He nodded, briefly, before
retreating back inside.
That was the bad. You’d think that the theatre would gear up
for the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, but apparently no one at AMC got that
memo either.
About a month ago I started experiencing problems with
Disqus, the commenting widget that I employ here at To2C. I thought that I
could fix the issue by simply upgrading to the latest version. I thought
incorrectly.
Several readers and a couple of regular commenter’s have
told me that they continue to have problems posting comments. I’m sorry. Please bear with me. I realize
that the fix is beyond my limited technology skills. For all I know I might have
made a bad situation worse with the upgrade.
That’s the ugly. Hopefully the offer of help from my friend
Jamie Howard is still valid and a solution to this problem will soon be found.
I hope he get’s this memo.
