I thought yesterday was going to be a lot worse than it was. I saw the new architect, and it went well I like the guy. And I got my modem replaced so now I have internet again. Both were much less painful than anticipated.

Yesterday morning, I thought yesterday was going to be hell day.

I called the phone company, told them my new modem wasn’t working, The receptionist, (who I’ve been talking to quite a lot he last few days, she’s the good one.) said she’d call the tech and call me back. She called back, said bring the modem in, but don’t go in the front door go around to the side where the trucks are ask for so-and-so. So-and-So. I went, and So-and-So took my modem in the back, and in a half hour with the modem (a modem) all programmed and ready to go.

Why couldn’t thaat have been done last Friday? Or Saturday? Also the room was FULL of modems. I knew they had modems in the store! On the phone, they seemed to say that the planest modems only existed on the technicians truck.

I got home and made a nice little wood and brass thingy to hold the modem.

That’s my WiFi access code in the tape, so you’ll have it when you come over.

So now all is well. And it’s time for me head off to work.

Have a great day!

I am sick with disappointment about my internet still being down since Friday.

After repeated calls, I finally got a new modem yesterday afternoon, It was bad. I’ll be taking it back today. Couldn’t log on to access the settings, couldn’t connect to the internet with a computer plugged directly into the modem. All the lights worked though, it looked fine, as long as you didn’t try to use it!

Today I’m meeting with a new architect, starting from scratch. The old architect ripped me off completely.

Does anyone else have this much difficulty whenever they try and do anything? Is it me?

Had a good run/swim this morning. I think my foot’s back to normal.

I’ll post this when I get to work, where there’s wifi. Have a great day!

Our modem died Friday morning, I could tell from work because our internet cameras quit working. Got home, and the modem was dead, no power. So I took it to the phone company to get a replacement, there’s a satellite office near my house, it’s open till 7, whereas the main office closed at 5. So I stood in the long line, and when it was my turn, they told me that they didn’t have modems there, and that I could pick one up at the main store Saturday, when they opened, and in the meantime, I should call in and report a fault, because the modem would be replaced for free.

So I went back home, and reported a fault, which is very difficult, because their automated system hangs up on you several times before you actually get through. Also, a new thing, the automated system asks for your account number, located at the top of the first page of your bill, instead of your phone number. Well, I think they do that to make it more difficult to report a fault, because as far as I know, they haven’t sent bills for years, bills come as a text message and an email. I just kept enterig my phone number, over and over until finally the system transferred me to a “customer service agent”.

So, by the time I got my fault ticket number, I was thoroughly upset, angry and disgusted, like each and every time I have to call them.

Soooo the next day, I head down to the big phone company store, stood in the even longer line. Finally, it was my turn. She asked for my account number, which nobody has, acted like it was extreme hardship for her. Then I was told they didn’t have modems, only the techs in the trucks have modems.

So which one of the customer service agents was lying? Probably both. I can’t imagine them not having modems, in either store. They will say anything just to get rid of the customer.

So I made a little bit of a stink, and she got on the phone, called somebody. (Probably just holding the phone up to her ear, pretending to call somebody)… “Yeah, are you in West Bay? I got a quick modem swap, the customer has been given conflicting information. Ticket number blah blah blah.”

Then she told me that I should head home, and if I “wasn’t there when the tech called, he’d be gone.” (Exact words)

So I headed home, knowing there’d be no tech, and no call. Saturday goes by, nothing happens, my valuable and rare weekend day wasted. Around 2 PM I guess, I called and was told that I was scheduled for between 8AM and 4PM… (it was 10AM when I was in the store). At 3:55 I called back and was told that the tech works till 5, and he’d be by, or I should at least receive a call to reschedule, and she’d check on it. (Outright lie, and she knew she was lying.) I said, “So, it’s going to take 5 minutes for you to call someone, 5 minutes for them to call the tech, so I should receive the phone call in 15 minutes, right?”

She started playing dumb then, “well, it’s not me that calls the tech..? I said “I know, but it’s going to take 5 minutes for you to call someone, 5 minutes for them to call the tech, so I should receive the phone call in 15 minutes, right?” She uttered some non-comittal BS, and I said, “I’ll tell you what, I’ll call back in 30 minutes if nobody has called by then.” She was pretty much not making any sense by then, but kinda said ok and I got off the phone.

I never called back. I’d had enough bullshit for one day.

Monday, or whenever, two weeks, someone will call and expect me to drop everything, leave work, and head home to meet a tech to give me my modem. I plan on telling them to leave it at the West Bay store, where I went in the first place.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, at a minumim, right now. That’s four days, more than 10% of billing cycle. Think I’ll get a discount on my bill?

I’m posting this using my phone as a WiFi hotspot, using the mobile data, hope I don’t ecxeed my limit and get a stupendous bill!

Have a great day!

On my phone and tablet, I keep a folder entitled ‘Photo Comments’. I use them on social media in response to other peoples posts. I find them quite handy. Unfortunately, I can’t use them on blogs, but I wish I could! I have a photo editor that I can use to add text if necessary, or, google search to find one I need, then it beccomes part of my collection. Here’s a few of my favorites:

Well, that’s more than a few.

Hard to predict the weather today, it is supposed to be rainy, but it was sunny yesterday, and looks alright so far today.

Have a great weekend!

A few times, I’ve seen extremely large objects go past the Cayman Islands. The largest, being oil rigs. I was told they are assembled near Bonaire and then towed up to the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterdays wasn’t the biggest I’ve seen, but pretty big, and it didn’t look like an oil rig, and it was going the wrong direction, south, not north.

So I’m not sure what it was. There were three large “legs” sticking up from the top, in the pics, you can kinda only see two.

There’s a post with previous oil rig pics here, and there’s at least one more that I can’t find, that I’ll continue to look for.

I’m working on recovering data from an external hard drive that had my backups, the recovery program says it has 77 hours left in the scanning process! Dang! It’ll be going all weekend!

Have a great day!

My yard has bananas, coconuts, limes, oti apples, (also called Jamaican apples) plus the wife has all kinds of different vegetables in her screen house.

Coconuts from the weekend

A very small batch of bananas that I picked yesterday

Only the bananas and coconuts are producing so far. Coconuts are almost nonstop, and the banana grove needs to get bigger before it produces regularly. (A banana tree dies after it makes bananas, so it’s normal to cut them down when you pick the bananas)

Oh, and mangos, there’s tons of mango trees that were here before the house was built, I forgot to mention the mangos in the beginning. They produce in the spring, and they’re delicious, but they’re a small mango, with stringy flesh, that’s better for jam than eating.

Oti Apple in Costa Rica, Jamaican apple in the Caribbean.

I can’t wait till the tree starts prodicing Oti Apples. They taste fantastic, and so delicate, they can’t be shipped, don’t think. We expected them last year and were disappointed, and we super-expect them this spring.

I started this post at home, and now I’m at work. I’ve been running late all morning. Woke up last night with a leg cramp, stayed up to make some sound recordings of a thunderstorm. It was hard to get up, and I realized I was runing late on mine and Sheba’s walk/run, when the daytime denizens started coming out. (about 15 minutes later than normal)

So that’s it, have a good day!

I walked out of the house Saturday morning and saw Goldie the cat fall off my van, so I went and got the footaage from the security cameras and here it is: 23 seconds long.

He acts all cool at the end, like “That’s how I always dismount the van”.

Drizzley Monday here, GAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Last night was the party. It was pretty fun. It was my wifes co-workers friends party, or something. I didn’t know too many people there, in fact, the people I had met before, I didn’t recognize, because of their costumes. But it was still fun. I really liked the cheap sunglasses my wife bought me.

I’m using WordPress’s new Gutenberg editor. Everything is supposed to be in boxes, that you can slide around using the arrows, except I don’t see any arrows… The WordPress app has been giving increasing problems, lots of images just don’t want to upload. Then, when I upload them using the WordPress admin page, (in the internet, using the browser), the app gives me an error message saying the image didn’t upload, even though it’s already there.

Right now, Im defrosting our chest-type freezer. I noticed the other day that the door doesn’t close all the way.  This is the first time I’ve had to defrost it since we got it, I guess a year or more ago.

Also last night at the party, there were these lights in the parking lot. The Tesseract from the Avengers! When I put the camera close, the exposure made everything else not visible. A 13 second video by me:

Let’s see how Gutenberg does. Have a great day!

It’s a beautiful morning. The camera doesn’t do it justice. You can’t really see the pinks.

I have no idea what this post is about this morning.

This morning, I took Sheba (our dog) on my walk/run. Not sure she liked it, she seems indifferent. It was a high speed, no-stop-and-sniff-every-damn-thing, walk/run.

Yesterday, I changed the tip on my stylus (S-Pen). Oh boy, it works nice now! They wear so slowly, you don’t notice, but when you change it, wow. The S-Pens remind of the old Palm Pilot stylus’s.

A friend of mine went to Cuba last weekend. He brought me some cigars. I use a cigar cutter, cut an inch off, and smoke it in a tobacco pipe that has the perfect diameter bowl.

Saturday, the wife and I are going to a “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas” party. I’m going to be Dr Gonzo, I’m sure like every other male going. I have the hat, I have the shirt, I need the sunglasses.

Maybe I need the satchel, and golf shoes. I don’t think I ever made it through the movie, but I’ve read the book so much I practically have it memorized.

Tomorrow is Friday! Have a great day!