A Plethora of Nonsense
Jan. 6th, 2010 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aCats. The cats seem to be getting along better with Tai Chi these last two days. Well, maybe not exactly getting along, but more ... ignoring each other. Which is great. Munchkin was still in a pretty insane everything-is-wrong froth as of yesterday, but today she just growls a bit. We're probably back to where Tai Chi was last time he left, which means that I expect he can be left out tonight if he insists (though he's getting locked up momentarily, as I'm about to leave the house unattended).
Nonetheless, I'm going to try and search out for some "calming" treats that I've given Munchkin before. Our local Petfood Express (best store ever!) didn't have them yesterday. Fortunately, there's another up on Broadway, sort of between here and Endgame.
Empty House. A peculiarly empty house today, because Kimberly was up and out of the house while I was showering, and is still gone. She had a couple of different things planned, including her normal saturday routine which was disrupted by DirectTV and other things.
DirectTV. I suppose I should mention DirectTV after I bitched about them a couple of weeks ago. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and, surprise, surprise, they called us up to say how they'd be happy to send an engineer out to fix our install problem, no cost. So the engineer was out this last Saturday. He apparently banged on the dish for half-an-hour or so. It hasn't rained since, so who knows if he did anything or not.
I suspect that DirectTV and Comcast both face the "problem" of being too cheap to hire actual employees as technicians, so they're at the whims of independent contractors who could suck (like the Worst Comcast Cable Guy ever) or not. Hopefully we got a not.
Edit: Kimberly says our DirecTV still sputtered under slightly gloomy clouds last night. Figures. Looks like this DirecTV experiment is going to be a two-year thing, then we go back to the Satan.
By the by, it getting a bit annoying that even my complaints about DirecTV draw out spam-mails from Comcast spies. Maybe if Comcast put the money they spent on spying on the internet into actual customer service, they wouldn't suck.
Don't send me LJ-spam because of this post, you pitiful Comcast Goons.
Gaming. I love themes, so I've got two Western games I'm bringing to EndGame tonight. The brand-new, already-lauded Homesteaders, which I'd like to review soonish and the old, somewhat broken Go West, which I hope will play better with an alternative scoring rule.
Hoping to at least play Homesteaders. Go West went into my bag ... well, because I love themes. And because it gave me an old game that I could reread the rules of last night, and that's my goal for the year.
Hawaii. I'm really looking forward to our upcoming trip to Hawaii/visit to my dad & stepmom. That's, of course, where my sister is right now, and why I'm cat-sitting.
Between Melody's trip and the fact that Kimberly & I now have tickets, the Hawaii trip is increasingly a reality. At first I didn't think that we were going to be able to get out to Hawaii to visit my dad every year, but I'm feeling increasingly committed to it. We can probably afford $1000 once a year for tickets, and it's a great place to be, especially in winter. And it's great to spend so much time with them.
Should probably head forth in search of those cat treats, so that I can be to EndGame by a decent time ...
Nonetheless, I'm going to try and search out for some "calming" treats that I've given Munchkin before. Our local Petfood Express (best store ever!) didn't have them yesterday. Fortunately, there's another up on Broadway, sort of between here and Endgame.
Empty House. A peculiarly empty house today, because Kimberly was up and out of the house while I was showering, and is still gone. She had a couple of different things planned, including her normal saturday routine which was disrupted by DirectTV and other things.
DirectTV. I suppose I should mention DirectTV after I bitched about them a couple of weeks ago. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and, surprise, surprise, they called us up to say how they'd be happy to send an engineer out to fix our install problem, no cost. So the engineer was out this last Saturday. He apparently banged on the dish for half-an-hour or so. It hasn't rained since, so who knows if he did anything or not.
I suspect that DirectTV and Comcast both face the "problem" of being too cheap to hire actual employees as technicians, so they're at the whims of independent contractors who could suck (like the Worst Comcast Cable Guy ever) or not. Hopefully we got a not.
Edit: Kimberly says our DirecTV still sputtered under slightly gloomy clouds last night. Figures. Looks like this DirecTV experiment is going to be a two-year thing, then we go back to the Satan.
By the by, it getting a bit annoying that even my complaints about DirecTV draw out spam-mails from Comcast spies. Maybe if Comcast put the money they spent on spying on the internet into actual customer service, they wouldn't suck.
Don't send me LJ-spam because of this post, you pitiful Comcast Goons.
Gaming. I love themes, so I've got two Western games I'm bringing to EndGame tonight. The brand-new, already-lauded Homesteaders, which I'd like to review soonish and the old, somewhat broken Go West, which I hope will play better with an alternative scoring rule.
Hoping to at least play Homesteaders. Go West went into my bag ... well, because I love themes. And because it gave me an old game that I could reread the rules of last night, and that's my goal for the year.
Hawaii. I'm really looking forward to our upcoming trip to Hawaii/visit to my dad & stepmom. That's, of course, where my sister is right now, and why I'm cat-sitting.
Between Melody's trip and the fact that Kimberly & I now have tickets, the Hawaii trip is increasingly a reality. At first I didn't think that we were going to be able to get out to Hawaii to visit my dad every year, but I'm feeling increasingly committed to it. We can probably afford $1000 once a year for tickets, and it's a great place to be, especially in winter. And it's great to spend so much time with them.
Should probably head forth in search of those cat treats, so that I can be to EndGame by a decent time ...