Wow...I can't believe it's that time already! Ten years later...and right back where I was. Ah well. There've been lots of good times & travels in between (an d it's only temporary). If you happened to have gone to Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, be sure to check out the reunion blog for details.
It kind of gets you thinking back though....to who you were, the people you were friends with, your plans for the future. I'm happy to say that my life has turned out even better than I imagined it would. Sure, I've had disappointments and taken some different turns that I didn't think I would. But when it's all said and done, I have no regrets and I'm happy with the person I've become and the things I've accomplished.
My thought & hope for today is that I hope everyone has had a great past decade and looking forward to what the next one holds! :)
Friday, September 5, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Worst Cable
If you live in the Greensboro area, you likely have Time Warner Cable. And for this I am truly sorry. Seriously, I don't think they know what they are doing. AT ALL. This is a little bit of a belated post (as most of mine are lately...I swear, I will catch up one day!) but I felt it was worth putting out there...as a warning, as amusement, in hopes that someone from TWC might actually see it and want to improve their customer service. Yeah, I know...not so much.
Anywho...since I work from home, my parents quickly found that this was beneficial to them in that I am, well, home. So they promptly decided to have all kinds of things fixed up and delivered to the house since I would be here and could be available. No problem, might as well and it's the least I can do for them letting me live at home right now. Well, one of these things was their wish to upgrade the living room cable to DVR. We already have HD DVR in the basement (my Dad's lair) and we had standard cable in the living room on the main floor. But they had some coupon or something or other and thought, what the heck. So my Mom takes it upon herself to swing by TWC to sign up and pick up the DVR box. First mistake...Mom can barely find the on/off button on the TV so asking her if she needed to regular or HD box was way beyond her. So the salespeople someone convince her she has an HD TV (we do not). So...first problem. We finally get the correct box and I go through all the steps to set it up and it doesn't seem to want to work. I call the customer service line and patiently wait to speak to someone so they can schedule someone to come out to the house. Great. If only it were that easy...
The next day a nice guy comes to the house and quickly determines that we don't have a strong enough signal coming to the house and someone needs to come put an "amp" on the house or something like that. Well, naturally, that requires a different person to come out on a different day. Okay, sure. So 2 guys show up a day or so later and it doesn't take long to see that they have no idea what they're doing and clearly received no direction before arriving at our house. I had to tell them what the first guy told me and then they fiddled with the cable box on the outside of the house and seemed to get things working. Yea!! More like, yeah right. The guy tests a couple channels, tells me we're good to go and they leave. I later realize we don't get any channels above 50 which may as well be all the channels if we cannot watch channel 55, HGTV (seriously, the most watched channel in this house). So I have to call back and schedule ANOTHER appointment. The same guys come back the next day and are like, "Huh, I think we need to put an amp on it." Sigh!
This is where things get really fun...this is the day of the Carolina/Duke basketball game. The absolute most important program to be viewed in this house (unless we go all the way in the Big Dance that is). I stress this fact to the cable dudes and they assure me they'll get it fixed. I think, "Well, as long as the basement's okay, we can watch it down there on the bigger TV anyway." So the guys keep going in the basement because that's where the cable actually comes into the house. So they eventually come upstairs, annouce it should work and we check it on the TV in the living room and it really does work! Yea!! So after they leave, I get to thinking, "I better check the basement TV because if that one isn't working, Daddy will have a fit." So I go downstairs...and the cable won't work! I frantically call TWC back and tell them that this is a 5-alarm fire emergency and they better get back TODAY to fix it. So muuuuch later in the day, they show back up. Well, turns out the doofus put the amp on the TV in the basement (why???) and blew the box out. And now he doesn't have another box. And it's like 6 p.m. and he can't get one until tomorrow. And thanks to the fiddling he has just done since he came back to the house, the cable doesn't want to work in the living room. Yeah...we ended up watching the game at the kitchen table on the small TV. I cannot tell you how unpleasant that was. Good thing we won the game!
Bear with me, I know this story is long but it's because they had to keep coming back!! The dude came back the next day (by this point I was starting to think of him as my new besty friendy) and he replaced the box and mercifully, everything now seems to be all right and in working order. Whew! So after a half a dozen trips and about 3 cable boxes, they were finally able to give us our simple upgrade. :-P
Anywho...since I work from home, my parents quickly found that this was beneficial to them in that I am, well, home. So they promptly decided to have all kinds of things fixed up and delivered to the house since I would be here and could be available. No problem, might as well and it's the least I can do for them letting me live at home right now. Well, one of these things was their wish to upgrade the living room cable to DVR. We already have HD DVR in the basement (my Dad's lair) and we had standard cable in the living room on the main floor. But they had some coupon or something or other and thought, what the heck. So my Mom takes it upon herself to swing by TWC to sign up and pick up the DVR box. First mistake...Mom can barely find the on/off button on the TV so asking her if she needed to regular or HD box was way beyond her. So the salespeople someone convince her she has an HD TV (we do not). So...first problem. We finally get the correct box and I go through all the steps to set it up and it doesn't seem to want to work. I call the customer service line and patiently wait to speak to someone so they can schedule someone to come out to the house. Great. If only it were that easy...
The next day a nice guy comes to the house and quickly determines that we don't have a strong enough signal coming to the house and someone needs to come put an "amp" on the house or something like that. Well, naturally, that requires a different person to come out on a different day. Okay, sure. So 2 guys show up a day or so later and it doesn't take long to see that they have no idea what they're doing and clearly received no direction before arriving at our house. I had to tell them what the first guy told me and then they fiddled with the cable box on the outside of the house and seemed to get things working. Yea!! More like, yeah right. The guy tests a couple channels, tells me we're good to go and they leave. I later realize we don't get any channels above 50 which may as well be all the channels if we cannot watch channel 55, HGTV (seriously, the most watched channel in this house). So I have to call back and schedule ANOTHER appointment. The same guys come back the next day and are like, "Huh, I think we need to put an amp on it." Sigh!
This is where things get really fun...this is the day of the Carolina/Duke basketball game. The absolute most important program to be viewed in this house (unless we go all the way in the Big Dance that is). I stress this fact to the cable dudes and they assure me they'll get it fixed. I think, "Well, as long as the basement's okay, we can watch it down there on the bigger TV anyway." So the guys keep going in the basement because that's where the cable actually comes into the house. So they eventually come upstairs, annouce it should work and we check it on the TV in the living room and it really does work! Yea!! So after they leave, I get to thinking, "I better check the basement TV because if that one isn't working, Daddy will have a fit." So I go downstairs...and the cable won't work! I frantically call TWC back and tell them that this is a 5-alarm fire emergency and they better get back TODAY to fix it. So muuuuch later in the day, they show back up. Well, turns out the doofus put the amp on the TV in the basement (why???) and blew the box out. And now he doesn't have another box. And it's like 6 p.m. and he can't get one until tomorrow. And thanks to the fiddling he has just done since he came back to the house, the cable doesn't want to work in the living room. Yeah...we ended up watching the game at the kitchen table on the small TV. I cannot tell you how unpleasant that was. Good thing we won the game!
Bear with me, I know this story is long but it's because they had to keep coming back!! The dude came back the next day (by this point I was starting to think of him as my new besty friendy) and he replaced the box and mercifully, everything now seems to be all right and in working order. Whew! So after a half a dozen trips and about 3 cable boxes, they were finally able to give us our simple upgrade. :-P
Thursday, April 17, 2008
List Update
Hey, look at me! Blogging again already!!
I was just looking back over my last post about my list of things to do while still in NYC. Well, obviously, I'm no longer there and felt I should update anyone interested in what I accomplished (and unfortunately didn't get to). I'm quite pleased to say that I did everything except for 1 & 2. I feel bad that I didn't get to these two things, but not all hope is lost because I know for sure that I will be back to NYC and can try again to do these things. And I did do Top of the Rock a few times so I did get some great views over the city (and hey, even a view of the ESB!). Besides, I'm a little glad that I left a few things left to do in NYC. When I get back up there, it's going to be very interesting. I definitely feel a kind of ownership now...like, I'm not just some hokey tourist, I actually LIVED there! So I feel I have a funny claim to the city...but still having some tourist-y things to do is fun too. Can't wait to get back up there and see everyone and everything! I have no idea when it will be...maybe not until the hubby gets back. But we'll be there, for sure!
Long time, no blog
Wow...so I have truly been neglecting my poor blog. So much for it being a nice way to capture my adventures in NYC and beyond! Well, I guess I can still get the "beyond" part. But I will definitely need to back-track a bit to get all the highlights in here. Honestly, I had kind of forgotten about my little blog until I went to dinner last night with some old high school cronies (we're trying to plan our 10 year reunion...where has the time gone??) and they were all talking about their blogs and it made me remember this poor little posting.
So...I'm going to really try to be better about posting from now on! Not so much tonight, but keep checking back, there will be more to come! ;)
So...I'm going to really try to be better about posting from now on! Not so much tonight, but keep checking back, there will be more to come! ;)
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Life By A List
I have decided to create a list of all of the things that I want to do while living in NYC. Granted, we've lived here a year-and-a-half now and I have covered most of the things that I would like to do. But I thought it would be a good idea to get the rest of things down on a list ('cause I do love a list!). Here's a sampling of what is one there:
- Go to the top of the Empire State Building
- Visit the Natural History Museum
- Check out the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy
- Get something from Magnolia Bakery
- Go to a Yankees game at Yankee Stadium
Proving my point about how great lists are and how they make you more productive, as soon as I made this list, I very quickly began ticking off the items on it. So within one week of jotting all these things down, I have done the last 3 things on the list! Pretty amazing...as was experiencing each of these things. SGF ended today so Troy, Curl & I went to dinner at my favorite spot in Little Italy, Lunella. It was as yummy as ever, although we somehow got The Waiter Of Very Few Words. He totally lacked personality but still managed to be very efficient and everything was great. Then we just wandered around checking out all the fair games with their cheap stuffed animals. The best part was the Drown a Clown game because the man who was the clown was so funny heckling the crowd. And he had a maniacal laugh that justifies why people are afraid of clowns. But it was good times and I even got my Zeppolis that I'd been dying to try (after all, they sounded like they are essentially doughnuts which everyone knows is my favorite food!). Since we got them so late, I ended up with 9 for $3! Quite a deal except you can only eat maybe 2 before you're totally stuffed and then I ended up carrying around the grease-stained bag because I just can't bear to let a doughnut go. Hopefully the work crowd will eat them tomorrow.
As for the other two events I covered this week, they were also great times and great timing. My coworker and I went to an after-work event the other evening that just happened to be about 4 blocks away from this great Marc by Marc Jacobs store she'd been telling me about. So we went to check it out and low & behold...Magnolia Bakery was right on the corner! We waited until the line went down by conveniently shopping in the Marc store. Then we went to Magnolia and I had a slice of Snickers Icebox pie and a Heath toffee blondie. Yum!!! Also good timing was the fact that Curl called me late in the day on Friday to tell me she had just gotten some free Yankees tickets and did I want to go. Duh! Of course!! So we headed to the Bronx and enjoyed the game for all 5 hours, even if the Yankees couldn't take down the Blue Jays (it's okay, they would get revenge the next day).
Definitely a great NYC weekend. Too bad about that whole work thing...back to reality! But I'm so excited about the progress on my list and am determined to keep right on with it, both adding new things to it and checking them off. Makes me feel accomplished. :)
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
JibJab!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Fresh Gear
Okay, so I've been back for a bit and been meaning to jot some stuff down but just haven't had the motivation to get it done. But here are some pre-Vegas highlights. :)
It was awesome having Rob & Niyati come up for a visit. We had a blast hanging out in NYC for a couple of days. I would say the highlight of the trip though was not in the city at all though. Nope, we headed north of the city and entered suburbia...in the form of shopping in White Plains.
The boys really enjoyed it and had quite the fashion show in Nordstrom. I can only imagine what the sales associates thought of them as they tried on jeans, button downs and tees trying to capture the ultimate Vegas vibe. I think they did a pretty good job though and racked up all kinds of "fresh gear" for our trip. I did pretty well myself, getting the most expensive jeans I've ever owned (yes, they really do fit so much better...guess they cost that much for a reason!) and some cute dresses.
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