Irony, knowing, getting pissed off, and laughing. 2/22/2010

Okay this is off subject but its really right on subject. Knowing what you know about me, you should know, if don't already know, is that I know a lot about Survivor. Obviously I am a fan because as you know, I now have a blog and obviously I want to play because I have applied more times than Tiger Woods cheated on his wife. Well, maybe about ten percent as often but for about as many years. Maybe I should hold a press conference explaining why I haven't been chosen as of yet.
Anyhow, CBS was hosting an online video application to invite one person to get an interview to get on the show. My good friend Mark offered up his services which come right in my price range of a few beers for his efforts, and after one failed attempt at shooting the video at a meeting, one failed attempt because I talked too long and one very successful attempt, we had what I thought was a great one minute video. Since it was going to California we will call it a great one minute vi day ohh. Anyhow, short story long, we attempted to download the vi day ohh on Saturday while I was at work and went onto the CBS site and all went well until it stopped doing anything. The result was 100 percent downloaded and then nothing...........then nothing............then nothing two and half hours later, nothing. Sunday we attempted to download the vi day ohh again and nothing except 100 percent downloaded and nothing.
We fast forward to today. To add insult to injury I went online today to see if I had received any email or if my video was downloaded, no luck and, wait for it, one guy did what I did. Approximately 1,100 videos and I thought I was going to be the only football referee to send in a video tape and I'll be a SOB, one other guy did the football referee thing. I went from being exasperated, to pissed to laughing this morning. And yes before you Einstein's starting asking the technical questions, Did ya'all put it in the right format, was the dang gum thing one minute long, yadda, yadda, yadda, yes Jethro and Ellie Mae it was all of those things. Mark builds computers, fixes them and is a Dell certified rep so like me, he knows a few things.
So there you have it, I have been promising you a vi day ohh and didn't come through. I am drafting a letter to CBS and have sent an email so you can rest assure I will forward their response on why the vi day ohh didn't download. I am quite sure they will say, "Well uh, 1,100 other people didn't have a problem," which I will of course reply, I ain't them.

Andy