More Home Crap from Joe
Tuesday August 1, 2006 at 6:26 pm | Filed under Home
Hi, and welcome to Home Crap with Joe, the show where we talk about Joe’s home crap. I’m your host, Joe.
That’s what it feels like anyway. You see, what started as a simple missing dial tone on our phone at home has now turned into an issue where if you call our home phone, an Asian family answers. This is after Verizon has come out to the house twice to fix the problem! Today they were supposed to have another tech come out to the house and look at it again, resolving the whole mess by 1:31pm (he actually gave me that exact ETA). Well, I got a call at 3pm on my mobile phone from them telling me they were running late. I haven’t heard from them since. I’m hoping it’s fixed when I get home.
Meanwhile, Danny (a friend of mine whom I’ve never met) suggested that I might want to try Vonage. You know, that “use your phone with your Internet connection” company? Well, after reading through a bunch of material and reviews online, it appeared to be a pretty good alternative that should save us around $30/month, so we’re gonna give it a shot. The home number will not change, and if this works out we should be done with Verizon. Can’t wait for that.
On the air conditioner front, we are still trying to get the insurance company to come out and do what they’re supposed to do, fix our AC. They balked at fixing anything when they came out the first time saying that we needed to have it serviced first. Ironically, the ideal situation is that they replace it. But for them to have the nerve to tell use that it should be cleaned and serviced before they deem it replaceable is odd to me. That’s like washing a car before you take it to the crash-up derby or something. Which I’m sure they probably do too, so what do I know?
Stay tuned for another riveting episode!
Busy Be Me
Thursday July 27, 2006 at 2:43 am | Filed under Family, Home, Me
I have got to find a better way to get more done, and still find time to goof off. That’s a tall order I know, but between work, house projects, buying a new car, selling an old car, trying to exercise more, attempting to have our air conditioner fixed, fixing our home phone (we don’t have a dial tone for some reason and the phone company says it’s fine), planning a vacation or two, getting ready for family visits in August, and trying to make time for and posting to this here site, I gots no time! Heck, I even have a whole new design comped up and ready to be built, but I can’t find the time and energy to sit down in front of my computer long enough to get it done.
Sure, I know what you’re thinking… Doesn’t Google have something that can solve all of these worries for ya, Joe? Not really. I’ve looked. Google Calendar is something that both Monique and I are using on a regular basis now, though. And I have a Google spreadsheet that breaks down every scenario for finance rate/gas prices/sale price of the Tribute imaginable. But that’s another story.
We did have some time last weekend, only had a garage sale planned (ON THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR!!). My mom had an opportunity to fly down for the weekend, staying with us for a brief visit. It was the first time she’d seen all of the work we’ve done on the house! She’s very proud and so are we. It was really nice to have her as a guest and just have some hang-out time with her for a bit, even with the air conditioner acting up. Her house is coming along in Vancouver, WA and it may even be done by her birthday in September. Giving her the tour of our house made me realize how much work we actually have done, and unfortunately, how much work we still plan on doing.
So… I’ll have to figure out some system and stick to it. But until then I’ll just have to squeeze some time
Welcome Back Cable!
Saturday July 15, 2006 at 10:03 am | Filed under Home, Me
Umm.. That’s better. Wow!
