A Little Bleary Eyed on my Way To South by Southwest

A little bleary eyed but on my way to Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, my plane finally left New Jersey.
In case you missed it I will be offering my thoughts with 4 talented people on being Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet on March 8.
At least the weather cooperated.
This week seemed like it did not want to allow me getting things done.
Funny how I am going to an Interactive conference after hitting road bumps with so many services from insurance provider to wireless service online store.
Amazing how both companies found out about the troubles they were having with their technology from customers.
There is an argument to make for companies being required to eat their own dog food.
Would it not be great when problems arise as they always will if businesses communicated with us in plain English by displaying the nature of the issue and what our next step should be instead of keeping us in the dark with just inscrutable computer code to stare at.
A little sympathy or even an apology from your provider also goes a long way towards soothing ill feelings.
The people at Typepad who provide me with the 'sandbox' that makes Serge the Concierge and Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet possible proved that time and again