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[scottcaddy]

Thanks everyone. The thoughts and prayers are much appreciated. Hubs will likely go home tomorrow, but possibly today. Waiting for the doc to come back in. We did go for a long walk down the hall, and he's able to eat "normal" food, so everything is on the positive side. Pain management will be the kicker.

Good luck with the internet woes BL. Amazing how much we depend on it, and go nuts when its screwy.

Glad to see that things are looking good for DH.

Most Christmas food is normal isn't it?
Scott

 

[FridayYet]

Good Thursday Morning Friday,
Have fun getting things all wrapped up.
Don't you have a road trip in a few days, again?

Good Morning Bunny,
Will your provider pay for all the data that they are making you use?
Scott

Good morning Scott- yup, we leave in the morning for Denver (weather permitting).

 

[Bunnylady]

I'm ba-ack . . . . .sorta.

The tech traced the problem out to the connection on the telephone pole in the neighbor's yard . . . . the same pole where the tree guys yanked the thing apart a few months ago while clearing storm debris. He replaced not just the connector, but the whole wire, and though that has us back online, we are still effectively breathing through a straw. Last I saw, there was a guy from the cable company down the street with a bucket truck trying to figure out where the problem is (mynocks chewing on the power cables).

 

[WVduckchick]

Welcome back! At least they are working on it. Cable companies are notoriously lazy, so glad something is happening.

 

[scottcaddy]

My Dear Bunny,
I spent many, many man hours trying to figure out where the problem was on a lot of different Air Craft, starting back in 1970 and now you tell me it might have been this (mynocks chewing on the power cables)

Scott

 

[whoop whoop]

Welcome back! At least they are working on it. Cable companies are notoriously lazy, so glad something is happening.

Oh so depressingly true, when they do find the problem they don't know what to do

 

[scottcaddy]

Good Friday Morning People,

It is the last normal day before Christmas and I need to get into town for my feed run.
I do hope that the almost last minute shoppers are well behaved this morning.
Coffee is started and I hope that everybody enjoys the day!
Scott

 

[Mtn Margie]

Morning! Sounds like everyone is pulling it together for the Holiday, healing, baking, and traveling, I need to add cleaning to that list too. No wrestling for the next three days so I will get to spend more time at home getting things done. The weather is spectacular in Denver right now but a bit "breezy" outside my house.
A neighbor took this pic of one of our other neighbors.......

 

[Bunnylady]

Mornin', y'al!

Oh, so good to wrap my hands around a nice warm cup on a cool morning - thanks, Scott!

Seriously, you never considered mynocks? Could be you completely missed it; I hear they are worse than fire ants about getting after things with electricity running through them.

Actually, we really can't complain (much) about our cable company; you just have to know how to get a response. If you try to call about an outage, you'll eventually get a recorded message about them doing work in your area, yadda yadda yadda - total waste of time. However, if you drive down to the store and talk to a representative, they will get moving on it. The first guy Critter talked to thought it was the modem, and handed over a different model that he said he preferred over the kind we had. When Spud hooked that one up, it didn't work. Critter took it back to the store the next day, a different guy took it into the back, and came back a short time later saying that the power cord was defective, they had replaced it and handed it back to Critter. Critter brought it home, and it still didn't work. He took it back, and told the guy, "I hope you don't mind if I watch you try to make this one work." The guy plugged it in, and it did exactly what it did here - the lights flashed on for about a half second, then nothing. When Critter told him that the unit had been handed to him right as it was, he grumbled, "the ones in the boxes are new, the ones without boxes are broken, that's why they're not in boxes . . ." and gave Critter one in a box. Brought it home, plugged it in, it worked, but it had no internet signal. So Critter spent quite a while on the phone with a tech who tried valiantly to fix the problem remotely, and finally gave up and scheduled the on-the-scene visit. Apparently they still tried, though, because we had internet (briefly) when we got up in the morning, and Critter later got a call telling him that they thought they had fixed it remotely. Ummm, no; at least, it didn't stay fixed.

I've long said that patience and stubbornness are two sides of the same coin, and apparently that's coin of the realm when it comes to getting service from the cable company.

Wow, Margie, that's quite a neighbor! Hope he doesn't get too 'neighborly.'

 

[sourland]

I'm back.

You have no idea how badly I have needed a GOOD cup of coffee. The B & B we stayed at had the weakest brewed coffee that I have ever tasted. They did have a Keurig that made fair coffee.

, Technology

. Our induction stove top went bat stuff crazy on Tuesday. Tried to fix it through an on line repair group - they refunded our money because it baffled them. Contacted a local repair group and scheduled service for 3:30 this afternoon. Just got a phone call saying the service guy looked over our complaint and has no clue - tech support has today and Monday off so we rescheduled for Tuesday. 14 people are coming here on Monday for a post Christmas party. I do have two ovens to prepare food

' HO, HO, HO !