I HATE VISTA

I have been working on this damn posting three times and I hate Vista because it loses my written word, skips around and deletes things that were not meant to be deleted.   Am I the only one in the so called civilized world that is having trouble with this damn system???

On to Verizon.....Emilys phone has been replaced three times.   It is the EnV.    Anyhow, the last straw was yesterday when she disconnected the charger and pulled out the guts of the phone.   

Off to the Verizon store, where John told us that he could get us a replacement or something equal in value.   AT the current value, that phone had been replaced three times so far in the last 12 months.

After looking at the options I told John I wanted to speak to his supervisor.  To make a long story short, the manager told us that when the phones come off the assembly line they are tested and the failures are reconfigured to use as "replacements,"   Well we had two of these so called replacements and neither of them lasted very long.   So in the managers discretion gave us a NEW phone.   I had never known that the replacements were factory rejects.   Well I am  now happy if the phone works.  So far so good.  I spent a lot of time at the Verizon store and I think they wanted to see me go, although, I was very polite and not very loud.

 

 

 

Sunny and warmer

I had tried to do this before but somehow it didn't add the posting.   Today started out on the cloudy, dull and overcast and damp and dreary too.  I had to get out of the house.  So off I went.  First top was to get cat food.  They are having a protest.  It seems they do not like their choices.   Tuna seems to be the stalling block.   Well , they are going to get it and if they don't like it too bad, let them do the shopping. The don't have any money or little wallets to carry the money in anyway. 

I am still perplexed about this "tapping"  Somehow I had it fixed and the problem has resurfaced.   I had remembered that I had typed instructions and what I wrote no longer works.   I followed my own instructions and the menu that I had worked on is no longer there.    I think it was wisked away with one of those updates.   I went into system restore and could not go back to 3/9 the date of my posting.  What is going on?

Added Chucks picture

I have decided to add Chucks picture to the all about me section.   Now, there in living color is Chuck, the man I have been happily married to for 10 years, too bad we have been married for 37.  LOL LOL   That is Chucks joke and I have stolen it.    That is what he says, that he tells people who ask him how long we have been married.    Now, once it is out there on the web it is there forever  and  possibly a day.

When he reads this I expect some comment to be posted,  but I will not offer a retraction......HA   I guess I will have to post one of Emily too.  But, I don't think she reads this journal because she probably thinks my life is too mundane.

Friday

You have heard of cat in the hat, well this is cat in the bag.  This is Jeanne Marie, aka  Jenny.  She belongs to Emily and she was rescued from the Berea Animal Shelter.  People didn't want her because she bit, well, don't all kittens bite?????

My current thought is the tax rebate.   I have a coworker who takes care of her elderly mother and claims her on her income tax.   Well the regulations on the rebate say only a claimed dependant child can get a rebate...............And the mother is not entitled to the refund either because she doesn't file income tax and is a dependant of some else.   Way to go IRS.   My friend was going to take $300 out of her savings and give it to her mom and tell her that the rebate come for her.   At least one portion of the problem was solved.

Dress rehearsal is tonight and the last concert of the season is tomorrow.   Emily will be glad for the respite.  Then it starts again in October 2008.   By then she will be back in school....She said she is looking forward to that.  She said she needs to do something meaningfull in her life.  She also will never be unemployed as a RN.

Tangier Island

This is from Wikipedia, a non-referencece reference

Tangier, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This was taken a while back.  Went on a little side trip to Tangier Island, VA.   I guess the isolation was amazing and it is unreal that people can still live in a location that is only accessible by boat.  Like the French Island off the coast of Acadia National Park in Maine.

I have been irked to the max, well, not really the max but it was high up on my frustrations list.   I had my credit card number changed so I needed to change the number of EZPASS (PA)  EZPass is a good feature.   For a person who rides the Turnpike you just get on and get off.   Then it is billed to your account. 

The beauty of that is that you don't need to carry cash.  Sometime earlier this year they changed the  user id and password so it had to be reset.   They did not send me an email about this new requirement.   So I get on and find out that I can not log in, bummer number one.   Then I am having great difficult setting up a new account, bummer number two.    So, I want to complain (one of my favorite things I like to do)  and they DO NOT ACCEPT EMAILS ABOUT EZPASS.  I sent one anyway.  They never did respond, but I did mention that they would not be getting paid without the new number.....  Bummer number three....

They had a phone number and and after five minutes time I get a message that I have to call back on Monday.  Bummer number four.

On Monday I get the run around and telephone tag as I complain about the signing up again part.  It wasn't till I   mention that I had a new credit card number and the old one was no longer valid, that I was transferred to the accounting department with the speed of light.  They took that information so fast it made my head spin.

Today, I had to call and get help with setting up the account.   Seems you have to have a combination of UPPER, lower and numericals in this stupid password.   I have lost track of the numbers of bummers.

Let me tell you about the toll collectors on the PA Turnpike.   It is fraught with nepotism; at least that is my suspicion.   The coin collectors are making about $19/hour.   And all you have to be able to do is count money.    When you get on an automated machine spits out your card, and you have to pay to exit.    The collectors are very surly to add to my aggravation, I would like to know why in the world would they get paid so much money.  I guess you have to pay your relatives a lot.  They are always in a foul mood, I would say about 80% of them. 

With EZPASS  I only have to be aggravated when they change my charge account number.  I hope they install it on the whole damn thing and make it mandatory.

What do you think of that Chuck????

Addendum: While I was watching the evening news and eating my dinner, a guy from PENDOT called to inquire about my email to PENNDOT.   I had a nice conversation and told him I had already taken care of the matter (long before his call I must add)  and now everything was fine.   I guess they do read them and do not go to the spamfile.

 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  How about that .......

Tangier Island Guide: Tangier Island - A Chesapeake Bay Island Bed and Breakfasts, Restaurants, Transportation, Marina, Airpo...

 

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill

Relating to the entry below, the daughter said I could mention the dad more, she doesn't care..............

Relating to the entry about, I try to find humor in everything I do, because, if I wasn't laughing I would be crying.

Claudia