Good Morning CGs!

I was all set to sit down and have a few minutes to type, but rugrat #1 woke up and started screaming for me. So I had to go tend to that for the last 10 minutes. Oh well, HCF will have to be started by another brave individual.

Not much to report here, just regular stuff.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Matthew

13 days to moving day...

Got some busy work to do this morning. Good to have paying work though. Been REAL slow the past few months.

Daddy needs cash!

Have a super groovy day, Gurus!

Good morning guys...IT"S FRIDAY. Not even a normal Friday, we have "spring fling" today because the classes did so well on state assessments, and then we host a big track meet this afternoon.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Was it you that was retiring after this year, teebee? Is that still the plan?

I've been away so long.

Good morning guru's! Ahhhhhrrrggggg Mothers day is Sunday, So much to do so little time. I completly spaced it. Gotta line up a place to go eat lunch then there is the cards and corsage.......I better get it done since Fathers day will be here soon.

Work and more work but it is starting to slow down. We have some graduations getting started this weekend in other towns around us. I don't know about your parts of the country but graduations are a big deal out here on the praire. Lots of food and garages turned into showcases for the kids achievments in High School. Everyone makes the rounds, it is kinda cool. When we have a graduate, which we don't this year we set up a big tent and have a fruit smoothy machine. (It's really a margarita machine in disquise) Lot's of folks stop by.

Go figure out how to get it done today guys, the weekend is almost here!

Greetings! The week has flown by, and the Vette is still up on jack stands. I'll have to try to get it buttoned up tonight, since it looks like an action-packed honey-do weekend is in store.

Enjoy your Friday, everyone!

Good morning Gents!

It looks like a nice day in store as far as weather is concerned. Last night I got the grass cut and hosed out the sailboat on the side of the house. It was full of leaves and beginning to harvest mosquitoes. Like I need another project now. I have a 25 foot sailboat sitting down at the marina unused and a 16 footer here that is begging for attention. I need to unload both of them, but I'm saving them for the day when I have no worries or obligations! Ha Ha!!

I'm taking Kathie in for her second surgery today. Its supposed to be a short one, no longer than an hour. They are going in to remove some more of the margin areas prior to scheduling her for radiation treatments. So far.. so good. She is still pretty depressed about the whole thing and I hope that she gets some good news out of this today.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

Take care and have a great weekend...

I wish Tommy was here to add his daily words of wisdom!!

You and Kathie are in my thoughts. Here's hoping for good news today!

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Amen - much mojo coming your way!

Thanks guys! I really look forward to the daily chats here! Its because of the fraternity developed over the years.

Be praying for you guys, Don.

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Biggrizzly, I hope things work out for the best for Kathie. I'll be thinking about your day while I fight thru mine.

While my problem is nowhere near as important as Kathie's,
It's still a tremendous aggravation.


The following rant was written over the course of an hour or more as I dealt with ATT.

We had ATT U-verse installed yesterday and it's now going into the 2nd full day of installation. When we called to order it, the salesdroid told us we could use my son's Xbox 360 as a reciever for one of the TV's. Upon the 1st attempt, we found the Xbox needed a bigger harddrive. So I went and got one, for ONLY $140. After that, the install was finished, I thought. At this point the installer had escaped and I was forced to deal w/ the people on the phone. After fighting it out and wasting a vacation day from work, some guy in Texas tells me the whole thing is because the original sales dink didn't bother to check a box, and now nobody can figure out how to check that box.

As per their advice, I called sales and they had no way to assist me. Go figure, huh? I told the dink that today is do-or-die for the U-verse as I have until tomorrow to either cancel Time-Warner or it automatically renews the contract. That being the case, ATT WILL have this resolved or I rip it out myself and they lose all business with me, including cell phones as I will no longer honor any contract I have with ATT. Let these idiots try what they want, but they won't get another dime of my money.

Comparativly, this is a small problem in life, but the frustration level it causes is the stuff strokes are made of.

I just got off the horn w/ a nice lady in retention and she was very patient with the whole thing, me included. During our 49-minute call, she was in contact with tech support and me. She was reassured on the other end that this will be resolved today, and very likely within an hour or so. I guess we'll see about that.

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Chris, I actually retired last year and this year I'm double dipping....still teaching and drawing my retirement. Another member here, Ron, is retiring from teaching this year. But he's really retiring, not pseudo-retirement like me. I'm going to teach, at least another year.

Sweet deal man!

Don, we are thinking of you and Kathie today.

Bob, that sounds very familiar. Had some people here in town switching to one of the satellite companies, they had things on the install all screwed up and the gal couldn't afford another day off work to wait around for them to get things right, so she told them take it all out and forget it.

Marcus, you are right, graduations are a big deal out here. Same scenario, lots of food and drink (usually non-alcoholic, but not always), and just spend the afternoon going from party to party. I'm looking forward to it.

Don, wishing the best for Kathie. I have a good Corvette friend who just went throught this. It took her a year, but she is healthy and enjoying life.

So.... Is there still a HCF?

I feel less guilty about looking now...

Happy Friday Folks!

Don-Prayers Sent!

Been really busy lately..Trying to get settled back in at home...Now there is lots of drama at work with changes, etc..Everybody's running scared...
I've decided not to worry about it anymore...Whatever happens, happens, and I'll deal with. At least we're back home!

Think I'll go buy a new battery tomorrow and see if I can get the Vette fired up and see what happens. Been missing out on some prime crusing weather..
(Guess I can't get away with giving the wife the new battery for Mothers day?!)

Hope all have a great weekend!

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Tommy or Matt usually start it, but Tommy's on a cruise and Matt got busy and didn't get it going.....kind of waiting on someone to get it going.

Not that I can see it from school, but I go home and get to enjoy it.

Don - best wishes for K!

Bob - hope it gets worked out. ATT screwed up my inlaws internet install on purpose - seriously - the ahole salesman on the phone didn't like me (I'm no nonsense, no bs, no unwanted sales on the phone) so he wrote the order and never submitted it for install. We called the day after the install was supposed to happen and raised a hellstorm. They waived the 150 install fee and something else...still frustrating, but oh well.

Matthew

Well it wasn't rectified within an hour as I was given hope it might be, but it was by 4pm, EST. I gotta tell you, the people on the line were ALL courteous, despite my demeanor of frustration. One thing is that I made a point of NOT using any profanity, which is why they were willing to do what they could for me.

I think the big problem with ATT is not the people, but rather ATT itself. In my mind, ATT is a company that sells communication, yet is incapable of allowing its employees to communicate within the company. Even the installers need to get put on hold when calling in an issue. The customer service people are forced to use the same lame ass website to find answers that we have access to when attempting to help a client, and finally, when a new feature like using the Xbox as a U-Verse reciever issue I raised occurs, nobody has been trained to work with and assist the customer. I can't tell you how many time I heard something to the effect, "This is so new that noone knows what to do".
If the company I work for treated customers like ATT, we wouldn't be there anymore.

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The irony! Lol. Glad you got it fixed.

Matthew

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Good point on verbally ripping them a new one and using profanity to do it. My wife says that once you start with the language they just shut you out. Dosn't mean I don't want to though.

Same on how I get treated by the bigs, if I tried that on my clients I would be digging ditches for a living.