Exceedingly Mundane

Have had a fairly eventful morning.

Zack came and stayed with me this morning. Linda had to work today and Mitchell had to come to town for an appointment at the VA. Brittany went to work with Linda and Zack rode with his Papaw to the VA, and I went and picked him up to come hang out with me while Mitchell went in for a checkup. Zack and I hung out all morning. We played on the computer, watched tv and had a good time waiting on Papaw. They left about lunchtime.

We discovered this morning (while Zack and I were playing on the computer) that we were having intermittent RoadRunner issues. It affected my phone (using our Vonage Voice over IP service) and our Internet connection. The cable was mostly unaffected. I waited patiently for a couple of hours but it was never resolved. It was up, but it was slow and not very usable. I finally called and spent half an hour on the phone with Roadrunner support, to no avail. Once they heard we had a router, they pretty much said “it must be your router, it’s not our modem or service”. Huh. So, I called my main tech support (Tim), who stepped me through a lot of stuff and got us back up and running. Thanks Tim!

While Zack was here, the Terminex guy came by to do a check of the termite bait stations. I keep the front gate locked these days, so people can’t wander into our backyard. He apparently thought the gate was just stuck, because when he couldn’t get the gate opened using the handle, he reached up and grabbed on the wood plank and yanked on it. And proceeded to splinter off a section of fence board. When I looked out the window, he was standing there with a chunk of my fence in his hand. 🙁 He said he’d come and replace the board, but I’m not going to hold my breath!