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Feb. 1st, 2015
Nuthin here
Feb. 1st, 2015 09:09 amI'm in a chat with TiVo. The guy, on Friday, said my replacement Mini would be here on Monday. But... I've gotten no confirmation, no tracking number so I'm skeptical. I opened up this chat to ask and the guy typed "I'm looking into it right now." about 4 minutes ago so now I'm sure it won't be here tomorrow.
Yep, guy just came back to say it will ship tomorrow. NOT expedited. What matters to me is that the guy on Friday told me that if I allowed them to charge my credit card (and refund when they get the broken one back) that they would send it out expedited to arrive on Monday, or possibly Tuesday. Which was a lie. Totally. TiVo is such a push pull for me. Their customer service has always been mediocre to horrible. And they run, according to my calendar, about a year or more behind in keeping up with the times upgrade wise, they are still the only/best game in town and I would never ever want to have to watch TV without them. Oh well.
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I'm still in bed but my coffee is all gone and I'm hungry so... time to get up and get breakfasting. Today will be a lovely, quiet day inside. I will likely find the game on the tv so I can flip over and check on it or, more probably, the twitter feed that I keep running next to my browser, will let me know all I need to know.
If they win, then, likely, Wednesday will be challenged as far as getting in and out of here. Depending on how interested my brother is in watching the masses, we may well just high tail it over to Vashon Island. There's a burger place over there I've been wanting to try and I haven't even been there to drive around and look in years.
We've got lots of options. One thing I have always loved about Seattle is what a wonderful place it is to entertain visitors. When I first moved here, my front door acted like a revolving door as everyone I knew came to visit. There's a very cool tour of the historic district (where I live) and I think I took that tour a dozen times in the first year I lived here. But, really, no matter what your interests, there is lots to do here, easily. And fun things to see and great places to eat. I love my town.
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I'm all ready to get up and get going but Zoey just settled in for a little cuddle. Maybe I'll spend a few minutes playing a computer game and enjoying some kitty love and then have breakfast.
Yep, guy just came back to say it will ship tomorrow. NOT expedited. What matters to me is that the guy on Friday told me that if I allowed them to charge my credit card (and refund when they get the broken one back) that they would send it out expedited to arrive on Monday, or possibly Tuesday. Which was a lie. Totally. TiVo is such a push pull for me. Their customer service has always been mediocre to horrible. And they run, according to my calendar, about a year or more behind in keeping up with the times upgrade wise, they are still the only/best game in town and I would never ever want to have to watch TV without them. Oh well.
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I'm still in bed but my coffee is all gone and I'm hungry so... time to get up and get breakfasting. Today will be a lovely, quiet day inside. I will likely find the game on the tv so I can flip over and check on it or, more probably, the twitter feed that I keep running next to my browser, will let me know all I need to know.
If they win, then, likely, Wednesday will be challenged as far as getting in and out of here. Depending on how interested my brother is in watching the masses, we may well just high tail it over to Vashon Island. There's a burger place over there I've been wanting to try and I haven't even been there to drive around and look in years.
We've got lots of options. One thing I have always loved about Seattle is what a wonderful place it is to entertain visitors. When I first moved here, my front door acted like a revolving door as everyone I knew came to visit. There's a very cool tour of the historic district (where I live) and I think I took that tour a dozen times in the first year I lived here. But, really, no matter what your interests, there is lots to do here, easily. And fun things to see and great places to eat. I love my town.
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I'm all ready to get up and get going but Zoey just settled in for a little cuddle. Maybe I'll spend a few minutes playing a computer game and enjoying some kitty love and then have breakfast.
Done and todo
Feb. 1st, 2015 02:11 pmI used to have company come and stay here frequently but that's been years and years ago. It's really been forever since I've had overnight guests. And, instead of having a setup all ready to go, I've had to rethink the entire process.
Since it's only one person - my brother - I can give him the front room - the fish room. Especially now that it has that nice memory foam mattress. It also has an armoire I cleaned out and put hangars in, and a large, deep drawer plus a blanket chest and bench to put his shit on and a coat rack now cleaned off for whatever he wants.
I hooked up an octopus so he'll have plenty of available electrical plugs and a Qi charger plus a USB wall wart. When it comes tomorrow, I'll add an ethernet powerline port to the mix - the wifi back there is kind of dicey. Two clean towels and washcloths are on the bench. New sheets for the bed arrive tomorrow. My shit's off the hooks in the half bath (which is closets to that room).
I think that's pretty much it. He should have everything he needs without even having to ask.
The year the last of us left home, my parents sold the house in North Carolina and moved to New York City. And after that moved about 5 more times before the hit Charleston, SC - their final stop. We kids no longer had our rooms or our things in their house. But where ever they lived, whenever we visited, in the guest bathroom were cups with our names written on them and towels marked with clothes pins with our names on them. These little touches always screamed 'you are so welcome and we are so glad to have you here.' It meant a lot. I think I'm just paying it forward here.
Since it's only one person - my brother - I can give him the front room - the fish room. Especially now that it has that nice memory foam mattress. It also has an armoire I cleaned out and put hangars in, and a large, deep drawer plus a blanket chest and bench to put his shit on and a coat rack now cleaned off for whatever he wants.
I hooked up an octopus so he'll have plenty of available electrical plugs and a Qi charger plus a USB wall wart. When it comes tomorrow, I'll add an ethernet powerline port to the mix - the wifi back there is kind of dicey. Two clean towels and washcloths are on the bench. New sheets for the bed arrive tomorrow. My shit's off the hooks in the half bath (which is closets to that room).
I think that's pretty much it. He should have everything he needs without even having to ask.
The year the last of us left home, my parents sold the house in North Carolina and moved to New York City. And after that moved about 5 more times before the hit Charleston, SC - their final stop. We kids no longer had our rooms or our things in their house. But where ever they lived, whenever we visited, in the guest bathroom were cups with our names written on them and towels marked with clothes pins with our names on them. These little touches always screamed 'you are so welcome and we are so glad to have you here.' It meant a lot. I think I'm just paying it forward here.