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Monday, December 4th

One very stressful morning...

First, I had to prepare a complaint letter to American Airlines about a ridiculous error on their part that totally screwed up my travel itinerary in the U.S. All I wanted to do was change the date of the return portion of a RT ticket that I have not yet used only to have the Taipei offices change the TYPE of ticket I had such that it would expire in 3 days and then had the audacity of arguing with me on the phone as to why I needed to pay US$1,000 for a one-way ticket from D.C. to San Francisco if I wanted to fly that same route in January. Gimme a BREAK!

Supposedly it's been taken care of but since I had to mail the original ticket to AA's ticketing office in Dallas, I stuck in a little letter and could barely refrain from being outright condescending. With my luck that ticket will get lost in the mail. Laurie says I have bad karma with flight itineraries. I have to agree.

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Eventually the day got better...

The EBs were relatively easy to send out today, and, we got a really nice letter from one of the companies that has been using the ORIENTED Jobs Database, indicating that it is the most useful resource for them to search for bilingual staff of all the other sources they use. That was nice.

I also got an unexpected money certificate from my department for NT$1,000 since my birthday is coming up. Here's a scanned-in photo (above) for the record. Doesn't it look so... Chinese?! I took it down to the post office and got my mula.

It never hurts to ask...

For lunch today I cruised over to Ergotech to talk to them about cutting a special deal for those cool digital cameras. Everyone wants one and I'm sure ORIENTED subscribers would buy some too if the price is right. Compaq also called me this morning in response to an inquiry I made last week about promoting their iPAQs to ORIENTED members. These guys have no idea how much we're trying to do for them behind the scenes. It pays to have a little leverage around here, that's for sure. Wennie and I checked out the trade show earlier last week and totally fell in love with those things. They make Palm Pilots look pretty lame.

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