The things in my head go 'round and 'round

As a loyal cable viewer, MLW and I have had Comcast since the day we moved into our abode. And we have had no real complaints. Just the usual grousing about the rate increases, the channels that we don’t get, the reception on some of the channels that we like, the slowness of the internet, blah, blah, blah.

We are spoiled. Admittedly so. And then Verizon FIOS came to town and we get interested. We read all of the BAZILLION pieces of information that inundated us daily in our mail. We talked to friends who had made the switch, and then we talked to a guy who was selling the package door-to-door.

Ok, I actually shut the door in his face when he came round to sell it. I am friendly that way. But I thought better of it, and when I saw him in the neighborhood later that afternoon, I went out and apologized for being an ass and invited him in.

Yes, I apologized. Make a note of this, because it doesn’t happen every day.

We jumped on the Verizon bandwagon. Ok. They bought me with $150 in cash, and a year of free stuff. Go figure, I am a “stuff” whore. Which brings us to today. I have a tech stringing line, and doing stuff to the back of my house, and to my “Box”.

I am not feeling it.

What I am feeling is that good feeling that you get knowing that every TV in my house is going to be able to watch whatever the heck you want to watch on them. Though I have my reservations about The Princess having access to Pay-Per-View available to her. As she hasn’t gotten the concept of who is ACTUALLY PAYING FOR HER PAY-PER-VIEW as of yet. But what ev’s, you know?

So we will see as the day progresses as to how good a feeling I have. Right now, I am without telephone. Big deal, I don’t answer it during the day anyway.

L8R

So, did you watch American Idol last night? Kelly Clarkson was on. And though she didn’t look like this:

She did an ok job. The song she sang was just eh. I was expecting something off the hook and it just didn’t happen.

Maybe they should have had this guy on:

Because even if he is a creepy stalker guy, the chicks love this guy. As cold, grey, and starved for blood that he is.

Go figure for taste.

Sort of like someone to watch over me. Owning your own property can be a daunting task. Owning rental property can be that much more so. My FIL owned some rental property at one time, and sold it off as he just didn’t have the time on his hands to take care of what needed to be taken care of.

Think of what it would be like to have a professional Real Property Management group take care of the grunt work for you. That would make it worthwhile. Even I could be a multi-unit owner at that point. someone to screen applicants, and to take care of the leasing and all of the detail tasks.

If I had that, then I could spend more time saving up to buy my Porsche Cayenne.

Ahhh the middle of winter…..

Football is over. Nothing to watch on TV unless you are into sports that are akin to watching your toe nails grow. You know what I am talking about. NASCAR, bowling, golf, basketball.

So we go shopping. At least on the days when the temps are above the zero. And we get to experience retail etiquette face to face.

Such as the times that people make comments about my always having to work weekends. That is always fun.

And in this day and age, it is always amazing to me when a parent calls me about a job for their kid. This is a serious breach of retail etiquette. Unless you are a family memeber of mine. Nepotism is alive and well in my universe.

Common sense, you would think, would have a place of importance in retail etiquette. You would be wrong.

So there a few things to think, and discuss. Let me know if you have any others.

namaste