Daily Archives: January 13, 2011
Old Friends and A Good Time . . .
After yesterday’s busy day, it was nice that today was a little slower paced.
Slower paced, but COLD.
At 10:30am it was still only 35 degrees, after going down to 30 overnight. I’m hoping it will warm back up soon so I can get back to my outside rig maintenance stuff.
About noon, I drove over to the RV Park office to pay the site rent, and told them we would be leaving in the next month or so. Also told them we’d be back next year.
Then a little before 1pm I called Nick Russell to have him check something out for me on his computer problem. This is a really weird one that I’ll have to keep working on.
Next I started making some phone calls.
Jan ordered a blouse from Roaman’s a couple of days ago for $39.84. Then today I was checking one of our bank accounts and noticed we had 4 pending charges for the blouse, not just one. When I called the company, I was told that the extra 3 charges would disappear in the next couple of days, leaving only the one. She could not, or would not explain why the 3 extra charges were there in the first place. She first tried to tell me that maybe I submitted the order 4 times rather than one. Then when I asked her if that was the case, why did I only get 1 email confirmation and not 4. Again, no answer.
I’ll see what happens in the next several days.
Next I called Penn Warranty Corp. to cancel our truck’s extended warranty. After paying them almost $1300.00 the last 3 years, they paid $37 on a $600 brake repair bill that was caused by a faulty brake caliper, not wear and tear. And this was the first claim I’ve ever had with them.
Finally I called AT&T to cancel the phone and Internet service I still had at the house. There actually hasn’t even been a phone hooked up there since Brandi moved in. They just use their cell phones. I just kept it for the email service. But I’m finally configured somewhere else now.
By this time it seemed like a nice time for a nap, especially since Jan was already asleep on the sofa.
After our naps, we left the rig about 5:20 heading up to Webster to Chuy’s, another of our favorite local Mexican places.
But this was a special occasion. Jan was meeting five of her former Medical Records co-workers for an evening of good food and the occasional margarita. OK, maybe more than occasional.
Jan has done this every year since we’ve been on the road, and it’s always a good time to be had by all, and the occasional margarita, of course.
While Jan was having fun, and the occasional margarita, I, of course, was working.
I drove over to a nearby client’s office to update some software, and reprint some missing reports.
I picked up Jan about 8:30 and we headed back to the rig. She couldn’t stop talking about how much fun she had, and that she was already looking forward to next year.
That was about it for today.
See you back here tomorrow, same time, same channel…
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Thought for the Day:
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” Tacitus 115 A.D.
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