The good new: we have the internet back!! The tech came abut 3 p.m. and had everything done 30 minutes later. Boom! The problem was just what I told the Hughes Satellite guy one the phone - the tree trimming crew bumped the satellite dish. As in, the 45 minutes you spent running me through diagnostic steps was a waste of time. But mostly we're just glad to be able to communicate with the world again. Planning dad's memorial service has been done mostly through emails and communicating with my two editors the same. This outage seriously messed with life.
Just in case I hadn't had my fill of conflict with invisible corporations with access to my checking account, I got an email from Verizon that my next bill would be just over a billion dollars.
When we switched from AT&T to Verizon we got their smallest plan - 2 gig of data between us. That's really small, but our usage averages about .5 g per month. We were paying $125 per month with AT&T and the guy at Verizon said that while he couldn't give us an exact price (they never seem to be able to do that) we'd save a lot of money.
He also told us our first bill would be higher because of the infamous "activation charges."
$252.00!!! Yikes!!!!
But I didn't freak.
Until today when I got an email saying the next auto-pay would be fore...$252.00. What??
Yeah, I was on the phone within two minutes.
That doofus at the Verizon (factory) store signed us up for the "beyond unlimited" plan. I don't even know what that would be. That's like a little more than everything.
It took the guy on the phone about 30 minutes but when he was done we got a credit of $113 to make up for the last payment's error and our new amount will be $93 per month.
OK, I've calmed down.
The book moves ever closer. Sherry has been on a tear and has sent me all her edits on all the chapters. I worked this afternoon and got all of that incorporated into the text. I have about half the chapters from Sharon, so as soon as I get the rest I'll make those changes and the text will be DONE. Then I have to transfer it into Word, format it, add diagrams, and send it off to Amazon.
But wait! There's more!
I got three versions of the cover from Aly and gave a thumbs up on #1. The only problem: she misspelled my last name. She left out the "A" in MacDonald.
And Sunday I drove out to Kim's so she could take a bunch of photos of my mug for the back cover. Hopefully she can put her photoshop skills to work and come up with something useable.
We're getting Sooooo close.
BTW, nothing is quite so humbling as having someone with editing skills go through your manuscript. I used to think I could write. Now I know I'm a hack with no knowledge of the rules of grammar.
And even as I write this post I'm thinking about those two (very kind & gracious) ladies reading it and shaking their heads in despair.
As an example of inscrutable rules, is it Dispensational Theology, dispensational theology, or Dispensational theology? Millennial Kingdom, millennial Kingdom, or millennial kingdom?
We'll go into town tomorrow morning so Pam can go to ladies' Bible study while I go to Starbucks and work. Then a stop at Harbor Freight before stopping by U-Haul to pick up a 4'x8' trailer. Come home to put a tarp down on its floor and cover it with straw. Then over to Marta's to pick up two yearling goats, bring them back here and put them in the weaning shed for the night. We'll get up about 3 a.m., load them back into the trailer and head to Seattle. We'll drop the goats off on the south side of the city, drop the U-Haul trailer at a place in Ballard, and head to the north end. Should get there a little after noon depending on traffic. Then over to see mom and make sure we know the routine for dad's memorial service Thursday afternoon.
Whew!
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