Right I know I said I would update regularly and I haven’t, but, in my defence if I’d posted this last week when it happened, you wouldn’t have been able to read it for all the swearing I’d have used in it. Now I’ve calmed down a little so am able to post.

My other half Paul (Qui Gon Jinn to many), posted on the A4U forum regarding PC World going back to TD (!) and how TD were really, really helpful with the program when they were last active with them (yes, that was sarcasm) in trying to sort out commission issues which I can’t go into too much detail about here. Somebody who shall remain anonymous (at the moment, anyway) phoned the lovely peeps at the forum and asked for the post to be deleted, which they did. When we noticed it had been deleted we re-posted it, as you do.

The next morning I get a phone call from somebody being very abrupt wanting to talk to Paul (who doesn’t do mornings btw), when I said he wasn’t available this person was demanding to talk to him sometime today - I asked for his name and number several times and when he told me who he was I was not suprised. Mr TD (as I’ll call him) was quite agitated by the post and called it nothing more than a rant and even used Joe’s post below it to point that out. I told him that they (TD) are only happy when people post positive things about them and as soon as opinion swings the other way they demand posts get removed. He replied with ‘Well, I never expected to be talking to such an angry person this early in the morning’. How to make friends and influence people? I did feel my response was calm when I replied with ‘Excuse me, Who the hell do you think you are talking to?’ he had no answer but to hang up on me. I’m still awaiting an apology Mr TD, you have my number and my email address, I won’t wait forever, nor will we remove the post. Also, he said he’d spoken to Paul at least 20 times about the issues we had with PC World which it turns out to be just the once, you’d well remember any conversation you’d had with Mr TD.

Anyway, something else which has been bothering me (here we go you all say), is while at the most excellent A4U Expo or rather in the bar at some indecent time of the morning, whilst having an indepth conversation a young lady who works at a network sat down opposite me and started chatting - I thought it rather rude at the time as I was already talking to other people but answered her questions. She is very new to the industry so I stayed as pleasant as possible when she asked me if I’d been shopping. I replied that no I was actually here to attend the expo and she was very suprised and that as I was so close to London I’d have made the most of the opportunity to go spend ‘my husbands money’. For one - I’m not married, two - I have my own sodding money thank you very much, earned for being an affiliate and three - we’re not yokels, I actually live closer to central London than the venue was! Her boss could see she was peeing me off and gave her the nod to piss off and annoy someone else.

 That has been bubbling beneath the surface since - I feel better now I’ve got it out, so to speak.

I’ve had a good day so far, which is some kind of miracle for a Monday - my PC is working again thanks to Daniel from PC Help@Home.