Hello everyone. Within 15 minutes of my last post, on the 4th, a quick 10 minute storm rolled through here and the wind was so strong it took a large tree down. That tree happened to land right on top of the telephone distribution line crossing the street, snapping it and the braided metal strand in half and pulling a pole right out of the ground. Needless to say, I've been with no internet until a few hours ago. My daughter hasn't been able to log into her online classes and because my phone is VOIP and we haven't had that either my wife has no idea if she's gotten any calls from the numerous resumes she has out. I've been so pissed because when I worked cable and there was an outage we would be dispatched immediately, no matter what time it or weather, and we would work around the clock until the issue was resolved. These guys sent a home install tech out at the end of the day, even though I told them the whole line and pole where down and required their maintenance and construction crew. "Well sir, like I said, someone will be out between noon and 5". FFS! Sure enough this dopey young guy shows up, closer to 5, scratching his head telling me this is not his department. A whole day wasted because Customer Service Reps aren't allowed to think for themselves. Finally we see a crew the next day by noon and they headed home at 5 only to have to come back the next day to finish. Several customers with no services or 911 access and they don't give a crap. Oh, and to top it off. This is the biggest phone company in the country with millions of customers and they're still charging them $2.95/month for get this....Touch Tone service!!!
Ah, that feels better. Hope you guys don't mind me venting. Love the pron going on. Welcome back to the MIA members.
FM, nice Mamadude man. I really enjoyed mine and so did the Mrs.
I don't have anything going at the moment but I think that's a good thing right now. We've been in a heat wave in the mid to high 30's with a humidity factor making it feel like the mid 40's. It's just cooking here and made our move pretty miserable and grueling.
Anyway. Glad to be back online.
Advise welcome.
jks
you can even turn the gas off at that point, being in your room would save you money! lol. 
