12:32 PM
Spent the weekend away from the computer, so there were no updates to OD. Expect a flood of posts on a variety of stuff over the next few hours.

First, a complaint: along with my car payment came a little form allowing me to opt out of the program via which the company shares my personal information. Great. However, to get out of the program I need to fill out a form that gives them not only my name and account number, but also my address, home phone, and social security number. Let me get this straight: to not be hassled, I need to give them all the information that would allow them to be a real pain in the ass? That's like saying, "Please don't shoot me; here's bullets for your gun." I never give out my home phone number on forms--I even lied about it on my passport application, for crying out loud. Mail me or email me all you want, but don't call me. If the phone rings, I want to know that it's either a)family, b)friends, or c)somebody working their way through the phone book(and I have no problem being an ass the last (so far as my understanding that they're just poor schlubs in a crappy solicitation job will allow.))

I have no doubt that sending in the form will require them by law to do what they promise, but the means by which I am allowed to crawl through their provided loophole rankles me a bit.