Daily Archives: December 5, 2011
Big Lake and Ma Bell , , ,
First off, I want to congratulate my friend Nick Russell on the Kindle sales of his Big Lake murder mystery. Yesterday alone, he sold 1,000 copies, and Big Lake is now listed at #38 in all paid Kindle books, right behind James Patterson at #37. with Patricia Cornwell a little ahead at #31.
Very heady company!
Jan and I headed out a little before 11am to meet Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at our favorite local hamburger place, Tookie’s, for lunch. Landon was not feeling well last night so they stayed home with him today. But of course by this morning he was fine.
So after our Tookie’s delicious burgers, Jan went back to Brandi’s with them, while I headed out to a client’s. But my first stop was Fry’s Electronics to pick up a Netgear Wireless Router and an LG LCD/LED monitor for him.
But when I got to the client’s home I found another problem. His DSL service was down.
Just a note here. It’s about 10:30 pm right now and it’s snowing a little north of Houston. If I didn’t know better I’d think Nick was in town. Now back to your regularly scheduled blog.
So I spent the next 3 hours on the phone with AT&T trying to convince them that I had checked everything and the problem was either with the line or the DSL modem. By the time they admitted I was right, it was too late for them to set up a service call for today. So we’ll have to wait until tomorrow, sometime between 8am and 8pm.
Nice of them to narrow it down for us.
Finally I headed over to Brandi’s about 4:30 to pick up Jan and head on home. We had planned to just have leftovers tonight, but since we were so close we decided to have dinner at Barcenas Mexican Restaurant, a place right outside of our subdivision that we’ve eaten at for years.
We used to eat here all the time, especially when we lived in an apartment right across the street as we were getting ready to go fulltime. But with everything going on last year, we never got here, so it was nice to be remembered by our waiter, Leno.
We both had our usual, my Carnitas de Puerco and Jan’s Tex-Mex Enchiladas, and it was as good as we remembered.
They’re supposed to call me an hour before the AT&T tech shows up so I guess I could get called at 7am. But I’ll probably end up hanging around all day waiting on them.
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Thought for the Day:
I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
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