Eleven Days Until We Leave Arizona

Word of the Day

Pedanstrian - Someone who dances down the street.

On the 2nd day of getting ready to go to The Lake...

HTP called the DSL people and the Direct TV people to see what we need to do to make sure our computers run fast and we can watch The Soprano's at The Lake.

HTP decided that we can wait until next week to have the DSL hooked up. It takes a technician ( I refuse to call this person a technologist. Is that even a word?) about a week to ten days to finally get out to our little hamlet in order to flip the switch. I don't know where he's coming from. It only takes HTP and me four days to get to The Lake...though DD Daughter and I have made the trip in 28 hours. The DirecTV can wait until we get to The Lake. All we need to do is make a call after we get there. One year we had to wait until they sent us a different card for the decoder box and then we had to wait again because they sent this new card to the Arizona house instead of to The Lake.

We get a lot of confusion and mistakes because of our two homes. It seems that most times when you buy something the cashier will ask you your zipcode. Which one? Phone number? Which one? Address? Which one? I'm not complaining. It's just that it takes a bit to switch gears. Look at all the problems I had just ordering some garden plants.

I KNOW that our credit card company is going to give us problems again. They always do. Maybe I'd better add that to the list. Call credit card company and let them know that we're going to be traveling via Vegas to The Lake and then we'll be at The Lake for six months. If they need to call us for any reason, they need to call us at The Lake. Every spring I end up trying to use my credit card somewhere in rural Wisconsin and it'll be denied. The credit card company has called our Arizona home and left a message on our answering machine wanting to check to make sure that our card hasn't been stolen. They never call us at The Lake, so we don't have a clue that they think there might be a problem until we find ourselves standing in some line, embarrassed because our credit card has been denied. It happens every spring. HTP tells me that it's a good thing. They're just looking out for us. Pffft! I think they just don't like us.

Murphyism of the Day

Murphy's Asymmetry Principle

Things go wrong all at once, but things go right gradually.

Corollary

It takes no time at all to break something, but it takes forever to have something repaired.