The news is providing WAY too much fodder for someone with a slightly twisted sense of humor.
It's a good thing we don't know anyone like that or he'd make borderline offensive comments on things like the guy with the first U.S. penis transplant leaving the hospital ("If you look at it, it doesn't look so good"), the freezer at a Thai Buddhist temple that held 40 dead tiger cubs (sale at Costco?), or the math teacher in AL who passed up story problems about trains leaving stations for alternatives asking how may tricks each of Dwayne's three ho's would have to turn each day at $85 per trick to support his $800 a day crack habit.
Over the last two days I've spent hours (and that plural is no exaggeration) on the phone with various customer service reps from Verizon. Our guests Monday got cell phone coverage with AT&T while here, and we get NONE with Verizon. After another phone conversation this morning I was told that since the problem was at their end (the nearest tower is 7 miles away) we could leave Verizon w/o penalty and get the remaining unpaid balance of our phone costs wiped out.
So today we went to AT&T and signed up with them. New contract with 2g of data instead of Verizon's 1g, newer, slightly nicer cameras, and a price within a dollar of what we were paying Verizon.
Drove home to discover...NO service.
AAAAARGH!
Yeah, we'd asked, and if we didn't have coverage with AT&T they'd let us back out of the contract w/o penalty or the normal restocking fee. But we talked about it and decided we weren't any worse off, we doubled our data limit, got nicer phones, and...if we stand outside on one foot with at least one pinky extended we can get one bar. So we took our old phones back to Verizon and are now AT&T customers.
That's an afternoon we'll never get back.
Mostly, I was looking forward to ditching our land line and saving $54 a month. That ain't gonna happen.
We drive by Diess Feed Store on our way into and back from Eugene. On the east-facing side of that sign it says, No Crow Collar. Driving home today we saw that and wondered, what in the world?!
- There's a crow collar but they don't have any, so don't bother stopping in for one.
- The carry a collar that will keep you from being attacked by crows.
- The little town of Crow 20 miles south of here (no lie!) didn't arrest Mr. Diess, no matter what you may have heard.
As it turns out (I checked the internet), it's a Velcro collar you put around your rooster's throat that prevents him from crowing so he doesn't wake you or your neighbors.
If you're wondering why have a rooster if you don't want the crowing you need to go back to Jr. Hi. health class.
We're supposed to get up to 96 on Saturday. But if we still lived in AZ we'd be looking at 117. Yes, you read that right.
Now that we stopped our gym membership I've committed to doing aerobic and strength work here at home. Yesterday that involved jumping rope, doing push ups, and running down to the stop sign at the beginning of Baker Rd. That's the first running I've done in over a year and it went OK. It's only about a mile and a half round trip, but it's nice running here in the woods, especially compared to the setting I had in Sun City. Today we were splitting our afternoon between AT&T and Verizon (opposite sides of Eugene) so I couldn't run today. Yeah, that's it. I couldn't run because we were away from home, not because my legs were Jello.
Really important appointment tomorrow at 9 a.m. here on Baker Rd.
That's a tease, but it truly is a big deal. Details tomorrow night.
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