I’m reading the physical copy (lol) of The Maid right now; I like it, it’s quirky, and as a punnyguy (heh) I’m saying there’s no way Nita Prose is a real name LOL!
I’ve got Diablo Mesa going on my Kindle, hot lady archaelogists are always on the list of course.
Hopefully, after 11/8… 
it’ll be Two Girls Down coming up next.
I have already knocked out Diablo Mesa. The Maid is still on the hold list, only number 75 in line 
Alice Vega is my new hero!
Trying to listen to Everything to Lose by Andrew Gross not sure I am gonna make through it. The lead character is a little too… something. Just can’t relate. She only has $26,000 in the bank, lives in a million dollar house, is broke and asking for financial aid.
Not sure what I will come up with. Come on Tuesday!!!
I just added this to my Libby request list!! 
@ChickenLittle @punnyguy I feel like we need to start a Book Club! Our “shelves” are very much aligned! It’s like “we’re on the same page”!
Exactly!
I had to abandon Everything to Lose it had the potential to get better but… I couldn’t take it anymore. Moved on to War Hawk by James Rollins
Aight, aight, aight…
I did go out and some basic rehab/ prehab stuff.
BPAs (broke my band, go figure)
Band facepulls
Deadhang
Air squats
Lunges
PVC windmill
Dislocates
Rings
I have been hunched over welding, painting, lighting, crafting etc… everything is tight! Left trap/shoulder and hamstring especially. Just trying to get things stretched out for now.
Lower legs and forearms have really been cramping up. I was able to sleep for two nights in a row so maybe this thing is on the upswing!
Rant coming up…
Started out with little smokies. Saw a recipe on Pinterest for Bacon Wrapped Little Smokies, while I was making them I took four out, microwaved them, rolled them up in a half a slice of bread each snacked on them while I was cooking the rest of breakfast. Huge mistake! Apparently little smokies have the same preservatives as the locally made hot dogs. Whatever it is it absolutely makes my heart jump out of my chest. It thought we were doing a Tabata CrossFit thing while I was sitting in my chair trying not to die. That lovely episode lasted for a couple of hours. Finally felt that I could make it to town.
Went to see pimp daddy about a welding thing and that got all discombobulated. In town it’s raining like a blind cow pissing on a Flat Rock. It’s stopping and starting most of the day but not raining at my house. My 80 something year old accidentally lets the dog out during the thunderstorm right as the lightning struck close to the house and then she goes outside to try to find the dog. 
After nobody died there I went to the meat market. Ordered five packages of meat and four of them look like they were wrapped by a 2-year-old, only way to describe it. I asked him if he ever put up deer meat because his daddy didn’t teach him very good.
All the while in the background my mom is upset because the Dish people sent me an email couple of weeks ago that said our equipment was obsolete. I made arrangements for the guy to come out and replace only the receiver. I specifically ask if they would have to change the dish itself and I was told oh no he only needs to change the receiver. First off the guy is at least an hour late. And now guess what? It’s raining. It’s dark. And he is going to install a whole new dish! My mom who was already upset told him he’s only supposed to change the receiver… oh no ma’am they won’t work with the old one. It’s only going to cost like $25 more a month. Mom calls me, I’m on my way home, be there in a few minutes. After arguing with his supervisor on the phone for 15 minutes I said okay go ahead and put the dish up I’m not paying more money. I have to hold the flashlight, ya know because it’s dark. Then he finally gets in the house has all the coax and everything tore up installs the hopper which I’d already said I didn’t want in the living room and then he doesn’t have the correct Joey to go with the hopper. Then he’s going to put a wireless Joey in the other room it’s only going to be an additional $7 a month and I said no we’re not. He’s on the phone with his supervisor to the Dish Network people for at least 30 more minutes trying to solve this issue of the wrong Joey and then he said it was going to be like $10.99 for some kind of protection plan. I lost my shit!
I explained to the nice lady in Cairo or Bangladesh or wherever she was that I’m not paying any more money for this if I have to rip it off of the house and throw it in the yard and set it on fire. I’m not signing a commitment, I’m not leasing anything because the equipment was mine this was your idea and that the bill better be the same as it was last month. How the hell do you show up to a customer’s house with mismatched equipment that won’t work? He said he was one of the top technicians that work for Dish in this area. I would hate to the worst one. Now only one TV works and my mom can’t sleep without the TV on in her bedroom. It’s way past dinner time now and I finally helped him load his things up in his van. He said he might be back tomorrow or Thursday to bring the other Joey. He better hope he gets that thing down here tomorrow. I had to disconnect everything and reconnect to Mom’s TV in the bedroom and then the morning I’m going to have to disconnect it from there and put it back in the living room for my son and he wants me to fill out the survey they sent in his favor. I’m just not sure I can do that. I understand the guy’s trying to make a living but why wouldn’t you bring the right equipment?
What a nerve-wracking day!
Venting is good. I read the whole rant, my spiritual advisor tells me that will help send better karma your way. (just kidding about having a spiritual advisor)
I had a similar experience a few years back. I filled the survey very badly. Sure enough someone called me. I re explained, I did speak with the supervisor during the installation.
I got a nice discount in the end.
If you haven’t looked into YouTube Tv, run off a Roku device it’s worth looking into. 90 channels with most of the cable channels people care about included.
I went round and round with my cable provider and finally decide to cut the cord.
I ended up with all of my streaming channels, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Amazon prime and YouTube Tv for cheaper than I was paying for just my cable.
It’s not hard to set up either. You don’t need super fast internet to do it either. I have the 300G package and it runs all out devices and 2 TVs streaming no problem.
Thanks Punny! I need all the good karma I can get!
We will see what happens. I have a feeling this is not over.
I live way out in the boonies and nobody here can stream anything with the sat providers. I can barely stream stuff on my phone at certain times. A friend of mine got StarLink a couple months ago. It is awesome! That’s why I didn’t want to do ANY of this. I want to get rid of it in the near future. My son only watches about 5 channels, one of which is local, they shut it off. Assholes!
We are not in the boonies any more has the civilization catch up to us.
But we had the right to tear down our old house but in order to do so we had to split the lot. No big deal but to the phone/tv guys.
For so stupid reason it was simpler for the town to change the house address instead of the barn. the phone tv guys could not figure it out at first that we did not move. That was the first fun part to fix.
After that when the new house was up, the tech could not figure out what to do. We did build on the other side of the driveway. It was so simple just pull the wire over to the new house.
But that turn in a 2 days of madness, the barn got disconnected. On day 3 then send an older tech. It was all fix in 10 minutes.
The first guy wanted to run a new line and leave the old house connected. The old house was to be tear down.
I did my best nasty bitch thing ever, my bf was pissing his pants in the back ground. But I got us a nice compensation. Oh I had to remove my dog from the house for the first tech not just leash him up.
What a hassle! They just don’t get it. I guess my bitch was a little too good last night because I haven’t seen or heard from anyone about the joey for the bedroom today 
Still no joey. I called the technician’s boss and it sounded like this is the first he has heard of this.
Either your installation finally finished, or it’s time for another rant?
It’s finally finished. The boss sent a different guy out and he got it done. It worked Wednesday evening and then last night the remote stopped working, batteries died. Mom said he unboxed everything here in the house but… obviously the Batteries weren’t very fresh 
I still suspect they unloaded some mismatched refurbished crap on us.
I always find that the batteries on my remote drain pretty quickly (forget about the ones that come with the remote, they’re absolute crap).
So the previous guy who claimed he was one of “the top” technicians was not the man he never was…??? I’m shocked lol.
Standard operating procedure unless you get super lucky is my guess.
It’s working so…
Helluva a lot of trouble for something I NEVER get to watch. We will see how fast they come to get it when the bill comes and it’s more than what they said it would be.