Return of the once and future Bishop…
So. After a month of fighting with my hosting company and getting my accounts alternately locked and unlocked I’m finally able to post something. Yea!
However I’ve probably lost what little readership I once had. Thanks 1&1. If anyone knows of a reliable hosting company please let me know.
So here is a ‘by the numbers’ catchup of the last 40 or so days.
- Comcast is gone, long live FIOS. Yes, I *finally* after 2 years convinced the wife to ditch Comcast and get Verizon FIOS. The final selling point is the $50/month savings. A great after the fact selling point is that every time she sits down to watch TV I hear her mutter something like ‘it looks like a new TV! Are you sure he didn’t clean it with something?” Yes, I’m sure. I was in the room the entire time. Keep in mind this is the standard package from Verizion, not HD. They are currently out of HD tuners because of the ‘get a free HDTV’ promotion so I had to settle for SD for now. It looks amazing! No kidding. It really does look 100 times better that Comcast SD signal. I’m not in a hurry right now for HD, seeing as how football season is over and the Sox’s don’t play ‘real’ games for another few months.
- In addition to tossing Comcast we are tossing AT&T. Yes we are going to have to pay a huge termination fee, but it’s just not worth dealing with their crappy service, ridiculous customer support and phantom charges. I’m *still* getting a $10.95/month charge for a subscription service I never subscribed to, they can’t find in their system as ever being bought and have never heard of. The biggest drawback is I have to give up my iPhone. So far, after 3 days I don’t really miss the phone, I only miss a couple features. Most of which I will probably be able to replicate on the new phone (orange LG enV) given enough time. One thing I won’t miss is the $40/month we save with the switch. Who-Ah!
- On a somewhat lighter note, I’m looking into heading back into the contract/consulting world once again. Nothing at all wrong with Molecular, in fact it’s a great place, but with the direction Beck’s ailments are taking it makes less and less sense for me to be working 45 minutes to an hour away. So if anyone knows of a Flash/Flex consulting gig, let me know.
- Finally, for those that have been asking, yes I am ???????? ????? ????????actually going to manage to get my garden going this year. Beck and I have finally settled the locale debate and we have purchased the first round of seeds. For now just the basics such as corn, lettuce, beans, carrots and the like along with several herbs like basil, parsley and rosemary. I still need to sit down and plan out the physical layout of the site, but that is the easy part. It’s the first step in the ‘monkification’ process. Something I’ll go into detail later once I actually figure out what it means.
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