Daily Archives: January 9, 2017
Missed It By That Much . . .
Well, we tried to see the movie Passengers down in Beeville this afternoon. After making a Wal-Mart run, we picked up our Amazon orders at the Lone Star Real Estate Office, and then dropped the groceries off at the rig.
Then, turning right around, we were about 5 minutes away from the rig when I got a text from Todd to see if I wanted to pick up a gate where a guard had called in sick. Of course I said, “Yeah” and we turned right back around.
Turns out to be a gate I’ve been to a couple of times before, but unfortunately it’s one of the two with no cell service, but OK data service and text. And getting to the gate a little before 5pm I found that the phone situation had not improved one bit.
Our friend Barbara of Barbara and Tom Westerfield fame suggested that I try Tango, an app that lets you make calls over your Wi-Fi signal. So I gave it a try and installed it on my phone.
And it works . . . kind of . . . sometimes.
For some reason, which works out OK, I can only call Jan, and not any of my other contacts. It reads them all in and displays them, but when I tried to call my friend Nick Russell, nothing happens. It doesn’t even try.
And then every now and then, it won’t call Jan either. It does try, though. But it just never actually dials.
On another note, I did heard from Molly Pinner, the seminar planner for the upcoming Escapade this March in Tucson, and Jan and I will be giving our Gate Guarding for Fun? and Profit seminar this time.
I don’t have the schedule time yet, but I’ll let you know.
Some of you may not yet have seen the new LG ‘Wallpaper’ OLED TV that was debuted at the recent CES (Consumer Electronics Show)
It’s 0.1” (2.57mm) thick, flexible, and sticks to the wall with magnets. The OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen produces one the best images in the industry. And you can pre-order the 65” version for only $8000.
Of course, next year it will only be $800, but it’s worth it to be the first in your neighborhood, or RV park.
Right?
Thought for the Day:
1836 was the last (and only) year that the United States was debt free.
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