The Hate Side of My Love Affair

Now that I've got your attention.

I have my One True Love - Hubby. And my One True Love When Hubby Is Not Around - The Internet.

EARLY this morning (after I'd finished yesterday's influx of events for Juliet), I decided to do the legal thing and (finally) purchase the registration key for my demo copy (legally downloaded!!!) of Finale's SongWriter.

Shites in a cup, the website's almost as flawed as our government websites. (-*side rant: POOR CODE! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!)

I tried the first time to purchase the key, and got an error message. Then I attempted to charge it again by going over my details and adding spaces between digits (there are no properly allocated fields) as is on the card, and again got the error message. Double checked it a third time, and gave up by the fourth when my card got denied.

Now, I'm aware it was stupid to keep trying, but dammit! I wanted that registration key! This morning, my bank called me asking if I'd actually attempted to make a purchase online. When I confirmed that I had, they informed me that my card had been charged ALL THREE TIMES!

Of course, they couldn't do a reversal, but I've told them to flag it as cancelled, and first thing after I got back from my class this afternoon, I shot off an email to Make Music. Grrrr I am so PISSED! I even tried giving customer service a call, but, doh...it's actually not daytime on their side of the world (see how irrational getting pissed makes me? :D)

Anyway, I've taken all the positive action I can. I'll be going for Idea of North's performance at IB tonight. I think it's part of the Jazz section of KL Fest, so I doubt I'll get to hear many songs from them. I missed their workshop at ASK yesterday, too. Tsk.

WHAT THE FUCK MAN!

I love my Innernet....but this fsking takes the fsking C4|<3 of $|-|iT! Not cool man, not cool.