The things in my head go 'round and 'round

Yeah you read it right.  There is a myth that has been perpetuated by The Princess that you can douse a laptop and it will still operate as it is supposed to.

Don’t believe it.  It doesn’t.

L8R

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

And I don’t even speak french. And neither did the Maytag repairman.

Who didn’t even turn out to BE a Maytag repairman. Turns out he is a any make, or model repairman. Even the Whirlpool dishwasher that we own. I grew up near Benton Harbor, Michigan where the Whirlpool factory was a HUGE employer. Up until they closed it down and moved the plant to Mexico.

Now the dishwasher that I own. That isn’t a Maytag, but rather a Whirlpool is no longer made in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Which is a very nice place to be to watch the Blossom Time parade if you happen to be in Michigan in the month of May. The route in South Haven is pretty crowded.

Moving on.

Where was I?

Crap.

Namaste.

We bought a dishwasher to have it installed into our new kitchen when we went on vacation this last summer. It worked marvelously.

And then it didn’t.

That made MLW not so happy. In a big way. So today I am waiting for the repairman to come and repair my 6 week old dishwasher so that MLW is happy once again.

It is either that or I am going to hire someone to do the dishes on a regular basis.

namaste.