scottydog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:44 am
This morning there's an Agile Writer's conference here in Richmond.
Okay, I'll ask: Is this about writers being able to move quickly?
If it is, I'm in trouble.
Oh, I'm back.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Since I was last here:
The end of Sept. lightning struck the pole with our cable line, took out four connections, so four houses. Each of us called when it happened, we were all given an appointment date at four weeks, except one guy. He was given one at five weeks. Many calls and a week later, including to the area supervisor, we were fixed in another two weeks. It took awhile before we all realized it wasn't just one house, then there was the wait for the parts, which wouldn't have happened if the cable help people had listened to any of us.
Son and I were lucky, though. We heard the thunder and decided to pull the plugs on everything. The house to our east and the elderly couple two houses to the north, weren't so lucky.
But, get this. We still had trouble with our connection (cable, net, phone), for months! Then in December, when the new landlord tried to kill us by spray painting in the basement (yes, he was told to NEVER do that again. Even his dad was dumbfounded by him doing that), I happened to see the cable box was ripped off the house. So I called the cable company to get it fixed. I was told they would be out the next day. I checked, the box looked secured, but our connection still kept dropping. I would call, they would check, nothing changed. Then last Saturday, everything was just barely there, cable being the worst. So, I called, and that call revealed to me that I had an appointment for the next day. What? So I got an actual person and was told that yes, our line and box were to be worked on. Months. Months I have paid for this service, months of high costs for crap connection. Yep, I called again and requested a refund.
And now you all know why I have disappeared again. I did mange to get logged in and change my avatar once, in December, I think, and tried to post, but got kicked off the net. It just got so frustrating that I gave up, with pretty much everything online.
I hate to say it out loud, but
I think we're good, now. shhh...
Aside from that, it's just been a lot of work at the farm, and quite a bit of writing done.