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Feb. 10th, 2015
Today is Chef Anita day. She's chopping and prepping in the kitchen right now.
The TiVo saga continues. The last instruction was that in 48 hours, the account would be switched (the latest 'cause') and I'd receive an email and it would then all work as designed. The 48 hours is up in 1. I'm not hopeful. I know this sucker will work but getting there is painful and I'm also too stubborn to give up but that last bit is losing ground.
Another call I need to make this week is to Social Security. I'm expecting to get my first check on March 1. But, their 'check your status' page keeps saying no decision has been made yet. If there's a problem, I'd like some runway to get it fixed before I don't get paid.
I gave up waiting for my $400 tax refund. I suspect it may come some day. I'm not convinced it will be in my lifetime but I am convinced there is nothing in the world I can do about it. I do need to fill out that 1990's era software that my CPA needs to do my taxes. My last bit o' documentation won't be here until the end of the month but there's no reason not to be ready.
This is the first year without a W-2 form since 1966. I'm officially done. And totally cool with that.
Week before last, an Amazon order that I canceled didn't get canceled. It arrived via USPS so I just wrote on the box 'Return to Sender' and gave it back to the mail carrier. I just discovered today that using the very same tracking number, I can see it going back. Which makes sense but has not always worked. It's working now and yeah! It will be easier to track the timing of their getting me my money back.
Swimming today is at 11. Yesterday morning, I kind of went to the pool by rote. Today I'm really really looking forward to it. I love the feel of stretching out in the water and just moving through it. I kind of feel like most things in my life have viable substitutes... if this can't happen, then that or if this doesn't work, then that. But, if something happened that prevented my swimming, I really would be devastated. Nothing else comes close.
There are all kinds of pics today of the Mariners equipment and stuff being packed up for the trip to Arizona. I am sooooooo ready. The first game to be broadcast is March 4.
The TiVo saga continues. The last instruction was that in 48 hours, the account would be switched (the latest 'cause') and I'd receive an email and it would then all work as designed. The 48 hours is up in 1. I'm not hopeful. I know this sucker will work but getting there is painful and I'm also too stubborn to give up but that last bit is losing ground.
Another call I need to make this week is to Social Security. I'm expecting to get my first check on March 1. But, their 'check your status' page keeps saying no decision has been made yet. If there's a problem, I'd like some runway to get it fixed before I don't get paid.
I gave up waiting for my $400 tax refund. I suspect it may come some day. I'm not convinced it will be in my lifetime but I am convinced there is nothing in the world I can do about it. I do need to fill out that 1990's era software that my CPA needs to do my taxes. My last bit o' documentation won't be here until the end of the month but there's no reason not to be ready.
This is the first year without a W-2 form since 1966. I'm officially done. And totally cool with that.
Week before last, an Amazon order that I canceled didn't get canceled. It arrived via USPS so I just wrote on the box 'Return to Sender' and gave it back to the mail carrier. I just discovered today that using the very same tracking number, I can see it going back. Which makes sense but has not always worked. It's working now and yeah! It will be easier to track the timing of their getting me my money back.
Swimming today is at 11. Yesterday morning, I kind of went to the pool by rote. Today I'm really really looking forward to it. I love the feel of stretching out in the water and just moving through it. I kind of feel like most things in my life have viable substitutes... if this can't happen, then that or if this doesn't work, then that. But, if something happened that prevented my swimming, I really would be devastated. Nothing else comes close.
There are all kinds of pics today of the Mariners equipment and stuff being packed up for the trip to Arizona. I am sooooooo ready. The first game to be broadcast is March 4.
Facing the worst part of me
Feb. 10th, 2015 03:36 pmYes, TiVo Mini again. Today, when it didn't connect after the 48 hours I was told to wait, I called again. This time I got a CSR named Susan. TiVo is a complicated set of products which operate on a very complicated background of software and services. Their CSRs vary widely in competency but Susan is the first one I've ever run into in 15 years of TiVoing who was just a flat out bitch with a bad attitude.
She was rude and condescending. She told me that the other steps and information the previous CSRs had given me were all wrong. She walked me through the very steps I've been doing for two weeks. Just as she was telling me that the answer was for me to wait until engineers fixed the problem, the call got cut off.
I called back and got a great guy who was chipper and excited to help me. He looked at my file and said 'Whoa!!! You have fabulous patience!!' But, then we got cut off.
I called back and got Susan The Bitch back. Her attitude had not improved. I let her blather on for a while and then we got cut off again - this time because I pressed the red button on my phone that terminates the call.
I waited an hour. I called back and I got Ronnie. The up shot is that I have to wait another 24-36 hours and try again. But he was nice and apologetic and respectful and just really nice. So I feel better. But, damn I wish the thing would connect.
I do love that the bitch CSR is using my name AND my personality.
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I'm sorry Rosie is leaving The View. I know she's a nut case and I do not subscribe to her whole agenda but I do appreciate the new, calmer her and she seems such a nice counter point to the others. I probably won't watch it much without her but that's ok. Baseball season will be taking up a whole lotta TV watchin' time here in a few weeks.
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Long about Thursday or Friday of last week, the guy in the apartment directly across from me moved out and it is empty. My two cuddly bears in the apartment above him left town and aren't back yet. The other apartment I can see from my chair has had the blinds drawn for days. These people do not understand that 1. To be a good Voyeur, I need Voye-ees. and 2. I have new binoculars which are going to waste!!!
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Someone using the caller ID of a rehab clinic in Minnesota keeps leaving me blank voicemails. I finally just blocked them today. I sure hope no one I want to talk to checks into that clinic. Oh wait. I don't want to talk to anyone! That's why god invented text and email.
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She was rude and condescending. She told me that the other steps and information the previous CSRs had given me were all wrong. She walked me through the very steps I've been doing for two weeks. Just as she was telling me that the answer was for me to wait until engineers fixed the problem, the call got cut off.
I called back and got a great guy who was chipper and excited to help me. He looked at my file and said 'Whoa!!! You have fabulous patience!!' But, then we got cut off.
I called back and got Susan The Bitch back. Her attitude had not improved. I let her blather on for a while and then we got cut off again - this time because I pressed the red button on my phone that terminates the call.
I waited an hour. I called back and I got Ronnie. The up shot is that I have to wait another 24-36 hours and try again. But he was nice and apologetic and respectful and just really nice. So I feel better. But, damn I wish the thing would connect.
I do love that the bitch CSR is using my name AND my personality.
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I'm sorry Rosie is leaving The View. I know she's a nut case and I do not subscribe to her whole agenda but I do appreciate the new, calmer her and she seems such a nice counter point to the others. I probably won't watch it much without her but that's ok. Baseball season will be taking up a whole lotta TV watchin' time here in a few weeks.
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Long about Thursday or Friday of last week, the guy in the apartment directly across from me moved out and it is empty. My two cuddly bears in the apartment above him left town and aren't back yet. The other apartment I can see from my chair has had the blinds drawn for days. These people do not understand that 1. To be a good Voyeur, I need Voye-ees. and 2. I have new binoculars which are going to waste!!!
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Someone using the caller ID of a rehab clinic in Minnesota keeps leaving me blank voicemails. I finally just blocked them today. I sure hope no one I want to talk to checks into that clinic. Oh wait. I don't want to talk to anyone! That's why god invented text and email.
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