Monthly Archives: September 2021
It’s That Time Of The Year Again . . .
And what time is that?
It’s Pumpkin Spice time again.
So we’ve not only got Pumpkin Spice Creamer, Sugar-Free, of course.
But that’s just the start.
You’ve got Pumpkin Spice Mac N Cheese,
Pumpkin Spice Whipped Cream,
to put on, what else, Pumpkin Pie. And, yes, there is pie under there.
And even Pumpkin Spice for your car.
Bet the exhaust smells really good, too.
And in these perilous times, what could go better with the WuFlu, but a whiff of Pumpkin Spice.
And of course to be doubly safe, finish up with Pumpkin Spice Hand Sanitizer.
We’ll as it turns out, after telling us that they knew the problem with our phone system at the office was our problem, SpectrumVOIP said that they would send someone out to look at it, but that since they ‘knew’ it was our problem, it was going to cost us.
The tech was coming from San Antonio?, and that there would be a trip charge of $150 each way, and a service charge of $55/hour including travel time. And when he got there about 2pm, he seemed to go out of his way to ‘not’ find the problem.
Killing time, maybe?
First he said that the phone system wasn’t getting an Internet signal, and so that was our problem. I told him that the DSL modem has Spectrum right there on it, and it also feeds our office system, and it was fine.
“Oh”, he said.
I kept telling him to look at his router in the office since it had no lights on it, and looked dead. And finally after he had eliminated everything that could possibly be our fault, he checked out his router.
“Oh”, he said. “It’s dead.” And when he picked it up, it actually kind of fell apart in his hand.
So he went out to his van, came back with a new router, and what do you know, we had phones again. And no outrageous charges since it was not our problem.
Thought For The Day:
Before you ask why someone hates you, ask yourself why you even care.
A Little Nip . . .
Our last two mornings outside for our coffee on the patio made it pretty obvious that a little nip of Fall is definitely in the air. Rather than the normal mid-80’s we’ve had recently, now we’re seeing mid to high 70’s.
Very nice!
I had planned to goof off today as far as the water heater project goes. Though it’s not finished, we do have hot water.
But I still had to go into work today. Jennifer, our office manager, emailed me that our office phone system was down. And it looked like it was the Internet signal coming in from Spectrum VOIP causing the problem.
And that caused me a problem, because while I’m configuring a new machine for the Shipping Dept., I was tapping into the Spectrum router back there for our Internet access. So when the Spectrum signal went down, so did our Shipping computer.
So before Jan and I could have lunch, we drove into Clear Lake so I could reconfigure things to get the Shipping computer back online. As far as the phone system, I don’t touch back. It’s not my problem.
Or, as they say, “Not my Circus. Not My Monkeys!”
Finished up, we headed back down to Dickinson for lunch, with a quick detour by Costco for gas. Then it was on to Monterey’s Little Mexico for lunch.
Again.
We were just there this past Saturday, the day they reopened after 4 years. And we figured a Tuesday afternoon for lunch would not be a really busy time. But we were wrong.
They were still on a wait. About 15 minutes this time.
This time Jan got her favorite Chicken Ixtapa,
while I got my usual big bowl of their Chicken Tortilla Soup, the gold standard for Chicken Tortilla Soups.
And if twice this week is not enough, we’ll also be eating at Monterey’s in Alvin this coming Friday before going to the Alvin Opry. ‘
Can’t wait.
Thought For The Day:
The hardest part of 14 days to flatten the curve is the first 18 months. – Kevin Sorbo
