I love Google Voice. I loved it back when it was still GrandCentral.

But today I had to set it up to send all calls straight to voicemail. 🙁

Why? Because I'm getting non-stop calls from telemarketers offering health insurance. How annoying!

They're actually leaving voicemail now – some of them at least. I guess after 2 days of their calls not getting answered they start leaving a message.

Here are a couple examples, transcribed by google:

0:37
hi my name is christine i'm responding to your online inquiry that you submitted for health care if it is very important that i speak with you i did leave you except and approve your application for immediate benefits please give me a call back as soon as possible so we can go over a couple of quotes my number here is (800) 979-4870 again that number is (800) 979-4870 my name is christine and my extension is 4219 thank have a great day bye bye

01:47
hello this message is for joel this is craig call to calling with american insurance organization how are you doing today and i hope this message finds you well i'm just calling to let you know that i received your request for some health insurance information he and i'm going to send you a some information some quotes here in your email in a few moments the quick note about myself joe i'm i'm independent broker i'm also connor mark and i am a master broker i work with all major carriers insurance anthem blue cross blue shield him and united healthcare to give a few name is but i'm looking at your information here 33 prefer a highway class no smoking and thinking that the company that's going to give you we really good coverage and the best freight is gonna be golden rule plan which is offered by united healthcare so i'm gonna send you that information and hopefully some there will work for you but if it doesn't feel free to give me a call back and let me know what it is that you don't like about it and i'll go over all the other options are available to you or if you just have some questions feel free to give me a call (262) 912-0677 if you find that the quote is what you're looking for you can apply directly from the quote but i'd recommended you give me a call first to make sure that we have everything that you're looking for and that'd suits your needs that's about it for donald i look forward to hearing from you joel's other in that have a great day thanks again take care

Ugh, Craig… I don't know where you got my number, but my name is definitely not "Joel"… also, you spoke for almost 2 minutes! Sheesh! Christine got her spiel out in under 40 seconds.

I'll post more in the comments, as they come in, if they keep leaving messages… and my blog doesn't decide to die for the 4th time in 2 days.

On July 2nd I posted about how the geniuses working for Poblocki Sign Company covered my car with fine metal shavings. It's nearly a month later, so it wouldn't be totally unreasonable to expect such a small sign to be completed… and it finally is!

About a week after the original incident, they actually blocked off the area around the sign to, I'm assuming, avoid stupidly making a mess of even more cars. After several days of the area being blocked off, they finally returned and mounted a new electronic display board.

And then nothing.. until early last week when they HOOKED THE SIGN UP! I was amazed. Progress! Except the only thing it's been displaying since then is a single blinking pixel in the bottom right corner.

Today though! WOOOOOOAAAAH! The sign now shows the time, date, and temperature!

I'm guessing that now that it's displaying information, Poblocki's work is finished.

Almost a whole month to mount a 3'x4' display.

It took awhile, but they did a good job. It's too bad that they had to start things off so horribly. In my book, the Poblocki Sign Company are still a bunch of asshats.

Today, in the UW-Whitewater parking lot, some clowns employed by Poblocki Sign Company (they have nice company t-shirts and trucks!) managed to cover my car, and the row of cars next to me with fine metal shavings.

I guess it's too much work, or would require too much thought to hang a tarp or something to block any debris resulting from taking a circular saw to a metal sign.

I guess I can't expect too much though… the State of Wisconsin is in a heavy budget crisis, which means they need to cut costs and hire sub-par companies to complete some tasks. Poblocki must have been the ideal match when they were looking to do some sign work.

Did I mention that I'm not a big fan of the metal shavings that the Poblocki Sign Co. got all over my car? Grrr…