Don’t you hate it when you get on Facebook to ask a question that’s really mundane about nice, inexpensive gifts (we have to shop for the MIL and buy things for all the nurses that keep things moving at the nursing home and the MIL had no ideas) and you find that one of your friends has checked in that she’s sitting with her mother while her mom gets the first of six rounds of chemo? Yeah, I can’t ask that question today because damn.
We’re in the process of switching our landline to the voice service offered by our cable company. This is because the phone company (can you hear me now) can’t be bothered to maintain their phone lines out here. True story: the better-half was having problems with his business line and they sent a guy with a truck to check it out. Dude said, “yeah, the company doesn’t care about the old lines anymore” and then I’m pretty sure he hinted that the best bet was to switch to the cable provider. So the better-half did and hasn’t had problems. Me. Problems. Either the line is so crackly that I can’t hear or the person on the other end can’t hear OR we have no phone service OR the line providing service takes every other word and turns it into Farsi and that’s really freaking great when I’m getting messages from potential employers.
Anyway, the better-half was either on a chat or on hold for TWO hours on Friday night with the cable company. Then he tried again last night. We now have a trouble ticket with the cable company which I think is a nice way for the weekend people to push the problem into someone else’s in-box and who knows when in the Hell we’ll have moved over to the new service. Thank goodness the raggedy landline is still functioning today because I have a phone interview later. And, I will cut someone if that line drops out.
We went out and purchased our Christmas tree yesterday afternoon. It is sitting in a bucket of water in the shed. Normally we put the tree in the garage overnight so it can relax, but with Lucy running out to the garage every time we open the door, we decided there was no reason to tempt fate. She was OK with the tree last year so I hope she behaves again this season. At least our tree stand is heavy-duty and we can crank it down around the trunk so the tree won’t end up laying on the floor.