I woke from a dream at four a.m. this morning: The City of Houston plumbing inspector had been a woman, it was her last inspection of the day, and after inspecting the gas line, she started hitting on me. We ended up scheduled to have dinner at her place. I also noted that the caps … Read more
I finally synchronized a borrowed chain-saw, electricity (for the electric chain saw), free time, and daylight to allow me to climb onto the roof of the garage and cut off the two main trunks of elm that were still up there. Quite a bit of physical exertion was required, though it only took about an … Read more
The markets are in a free fall. Friday the Dow swung 1000 points. (18% down for the week) At the end of the day, it rallied to only be 150 down. Hoping positive thoughts for the G7 Financial Ministers meeting this weekend. They think they’re going to get seven pre-eminent economists to agree on a … Read more
I finally have Internet back at the house. Took me over an hour and a half with tech support – solved in 10 minutes of course once I got to talk to Cal in Second Level Support. I explained what I thought the problem was to him, he said “you’re right”, and told me the … Read more
18 days after the storm and I get the runaround or the cover-my-ass questions from the AT&T reps. “you only contacted us this morning for the first time?” Since I’ve been without power for 14 days and couldn’t confirm their outage, they will want me to pay. And on top of that they have NO … Read more
My estimate of 10 more days seems to have worked. The power was back on the same day, after only 14 days without. AT&T in typical form messed up my DSL while fixing my voice line. Unfortunately, Virginia’s Internet went out the same day. (My computer is at her house.)