The reason I’m here in LA is to clean up the last loose ends I’ve got before embarking on the more exciting legs of the World Tour. Little things like closing out bank accounts, settling taxes, getting rid of my car, and so on. This means I’ve spent a lot of time tangling with so-called ‘customer service’ systems, more often impotently than not.

Most were the common story, punching information in via keypad in a vain effort to categorize my request, prior to being dumped on Tier 1 and thereafter repeating earlier entries verbally to the peon who was more than likely being just short of actively whipped by some unseen overseer.

Two particularly hostile systems, however, stand out from this Rorschach blot of communication.

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Yeah yeah, crappy joke, whatever. This thing looks to be purring like a kitten. Needs a little touch-up here and there, perhaps. Still, not bad for an afternoon’s work.

I’ve been thinking of setting up a dev-blog thing for a while now. As things are moving along on the relocation front, and I can pretty confidently say I’ll be taking off for the next stop on the World Tour fairly soon, I decided to get the shit going while I wait for Honda to call me back.

I’m still not entirely sure what precise purpose MFS is going to end up serving. It’s not going to subsume SB, which I’ll probably keep private for the existing SB crowd, and I don’t intend on tossing up a MFS forum. I know I intend to post, uh, posts about stops on the World Tour, as well as photographs. Maybe some gaming stuff. Who knows?

Too lazy early to figure all that out now.