The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Friday afternoon my sister asked me if I had an American Express card.
I do.
“Did you get your free money?” she asked. I had no idea whatshe was talking about.
“If you have an American Express card you can get a $25.00credit if you use the card to patronize any of their small business clients onSmall Business Saturday.”
I didn't get that memo. Fortunately, it wasn't too late so Iwent to the website and signed up. Last night, after I got home, I picked up asix pack of New Belgium 1554 from Kelly’s Liquors in Ellicott City, realizing a net gain of about fifteen bucks.
That’s the good.
Last night Mama Wordbones and I decided to catch the eight o’clockshowing of Lincoln at the AMC Theatres indowntown Columbia.I purchased the tickets around six o’clock on Fandango. Unlike the Regal Cinemas at Snowden, the AMC Theatres do not allow you to print out the actualticket at home. For AMC you need to pick up at the box office or at one oftheir automated ticket stations outside the entrance. At the downtown AMC Theatres  there are five of these. Last night only one was functioning. The linefor remaining machine rivaled that of the box office. We decided to split up tocover both in the event that one turned out to move faster.
They both moved slowed. After a time, a gentleman in an AMCshirt stepped out of the doors of the theatre and started talking into amicrophone. The sound quality was on par with that a subway car announcementand nobody around me at least could make out a single word he said. Someone yelled out andasked him if the customer service window was open. He nodded, briefly, beforeretreating back inside.
That was the bad. You’d think that the theatre would gear upfor the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, but apparently no one at AMC got thatmemo either.
About a month ago I started experiencing problems withDisqus, the commenting widget that I employ here at To2C. I thought that Icould fix the issue by simply upgrading to the latest version. I thoughtincorrectly.
Several readers and a couple of regular commenter’s havetold me that they continue to have problems posting comments.  I’m sorry. Please bear with me. I realizethat the fix is beyond my limited technology skills. For all I know I might havemade a bad situation worse with the upgrade.
That’s the ugly. Hopefully the offer of help from my friendJamie Howard is still valid and a solution to this problem will soon be found.I hope he get’s this memo.