Stuff
I don’t think I know if I’m coming or going these days. I could be doing both at the same time. Hee.
Birthday celebrations are over, mom seems to have stabilized-she’s in a rehab center to help get her strength back, and there’s still a pile of work on my desk that’s getting handled very slowly. We are expecting some sleet tomorrow morning but I doubt that will happen. We will get the rain today but I just don’t feel Mother Nature’s presence in ice form coming our way. Call it intuition. Saturday I will have to stay at home all day. The cable guy is coming out -yes my favorite people. When they installed cable for two other rooms in the house they ran the wire underneath the awning in the front of the house and then down past a window. It looks horrible, and my house now has the appeal of a backwoods shack. I gave them a piece of my mind when I called but the guy really didn’t care (can’t say I blame him he’s just there to take the call). He held firm saying the window for fixing such things is between 8a-8p. Good grief. I really should take a picture and post it, then send it to the BBB if anything just to make me feel better. What has me so irritated is the installation guy never offered me an option of where to string up the new cable and instead made the decision. Like I wouldn’t see this? Come on people. He could have run it through the attic but no that was more work. Thank goodness I’m on blood pressure medication.
It’s off to the dentist this morning for crown work, then off to work-work. On my return I swing by the rehab center and pick up dad and see mom. Then its home for dinner which has been around 7:30. If I stay awake past 9:30 it will be a miracle. Happy Thursday.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:27 am
What kind of stuff?
January 28th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Whoops I made a boo-boo. I was trying to publish some pictures of the pups on the paw prints page. Looks like I goofed.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
I’m beginning to think most cable installers are idiots, just like your guy. We had one come out here about a year ago & even though I specifically requested a certain type of converter box when I called to order the service, the installer “forgot” to bring it & then began to install the one I didn’t want! I told him to go back to the cable company & get the one I wanted. He glared at me and stomped out. When he came back 45 minutes later with the right one, he ran the white cable line on the front of the outside of the house about 4 feet up and all the way across the front. When I came out to check on his progress, I just about had a conniption fit. He said that’s the only place it could go. I told him, “Bullshit. It can either be run just above the dirt behind these plants or you can bury it. Your choice. This is an old, historic home… Whatever made you think that running a visible cable all the way across the front of the house would be acceptable???!!! He said that if he had to spend the time to take it down and re-install it that the mosquitos would eat him alive. I went into the house, got the mosquito spray, and handed it to him. An hour later, I had it the way I wanted it (and the way it should have been installed in the first place given the rock wall inside and outside the living room) but after he left I called the cable company and gave the supervisor on duty a piece of my mind for having this Bubba on the payroll.