[Kylan's Blog] New Phone Number

I have a new phone number, 509-432-1069.

[Kylan's Blog] Sprint Cell Phones Considered Harmful

If you're shopping around for new cell phone service plans, DO NOT go with Sprint. Kristen and I bought a new plan from them last weekend, and it has been nothing but trouble for us so far. The store representative signed us up for a number of features that we explicitly declined, and the customer service has been horrible. I've spent hours and hours talking to rude, unmotivated, impatient, defiant Sprint employees, trying to repair the damage done by their underhanded and unethical store representative.

After getting nowhere, I decided to talk to someone in the Pullman Sprint store to see what could be done. She suggested calling customer service again, asking for the "Retention" department and threatening to cancel my contract. Since Sprint offers a 30-day money back guarantee, this is good leverage. I followed her advice, and the representative I was connected to was actually quite helpful. Apparently, Sprint really wants to hold on to their new customers. I was able to resolve our issue, and our plan finally looks like what we agreed to originally.

Still, I am completely disappointed with my Sprint experience. I will never recommend Sprint to any of my friends or family. In fact, I will encourage them to go with any service that is NOT Sprint. I despise companies that treat their customers like dirt. In a business of this nature, customer satisfaction should be of paramount importance.

[Kylan's Blog] Cougar Baseball

Today Kristen and I went to the last Cougar baseball game of the year, against USC at Bailey-Brayton field. The game started at noon, leaving us just enough time for us to get done with church and grab some lunch. The game was actually pretty good, even though the Cougs were down 8-1 for most of it.  In the ninth inning, they scored six straight runs to pull within one point of the Trojans.  USC was able to hang on, leaving two of our guys on base by the time they retired the side. The weather was great, with an enjoyable combination of the warm sun and a soft breeze.

[Jaron's Blog] Recent News

I have recently been working at the Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien as my internship this summer.  It's been pretty interesting so far.  I've been able to archive registration files for the classes that the law enforcement officers take and a few other office-type tasks such as copying.  Some of the employees are pretty happy about all the time-consuming work I'm doing for them.  I enjoy doing it though, it isn't too much of a drag.

One thing that I have been able to do while interning is to listen to National Public Radio almost non-stop.  I've found it very fascinating, and it's really amazed me how much information I can absorb while doing mindless bean-counting tasks.  I always like listening to the names of all the NPR people, because some of them are really interesting.  There's a full list of all the correspondents and hosts at www.npr.org if you want to check them out.

Mom, Dad and I recently went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  It was pretty good, I would recommend to see it.  I think it's obvious that there going to do more Indiana Jones movies after this one.  Overall though, I think it only really worked because it's going to be an introduction movie to another series of Indiana Jones movies.  It was sort of a novelty rather than incredibly engaging in its own right.  Still, it is one that ought to be watched.

Other than that, our family is just gearing up for the wedding in a few weeks in Illinois, so there's not much time left.  I'll figure out something to give to Kylan and Kristen for their wedding...

[Jaron's Blog]- "Relief Provided to Blog Drought Victims"

Kylan has made it known that there need to be more blog posts.  To the rescue:

The earthquake in China has caught a lot of news and media attention so far.  About two years ago when I visited China, I went to the region that has been hit, Szechuan Province.  I've found myself wondering about the students that we were paired with and the sister school we visited.  I really do hope they are all right.  Since I got back home I've been listening to NPR a lot, and it was a little serendipitous that the NPR team was already over there ready to report the latest news.  Along with the cyclone in Myanmar, things have been a little dodgy in the that area of the world.

I am actually back home now, and I am working basically as an office slave for my aunt up at the Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien.  It turns out that where I am basically interning is only a few blocks from Peter Klosterman's (a friend from WSU) home.  I might be doing some pretty interesting work up there this summer, so I'll keep you all posted.

[Kylan's Blog] Posting Drought

There have been plenty of blog-worthy things to write about lately, but I haven't had a chance to sit down and actually post them.  I'll try to get back on top of things this week.

[Kylan's Blog] Switchfoot "This is Home" Video

Switchfoot's new song, the featured track for the upcoming Chronicles of Narnia movie.