It was a very nice surprise to see a comment on Wednesday’s Communication Breakdown post from Mark Button, Towerstream’s Manager of Customer Care. While I know that many companies keep a close eye on social media and the blogosphere, and I’ve even had first-hand good experience with this with our (as in my own, and my company’s as well) web hosting company WiredTree, it was still a bit unexpected and very much welcome. Since this blog and my Twitter account are used mostly for personal communications, and neither I nor my company could be considered a large account, it is good to see that we are still considered important enough to reach out to. Thank you, Mark and Towerstream!
I was also surprised to get a very quick response (less than 24 hours) for a kind of nothing question that I’d emailed to Kraft Foods/Nabisco. The answer unfortunately wasn’t what I wanted to hear, as it seems they have no plans to bring back Oreo Double Delight Coffee ‘n’ Cream cookies in the foreseeable future. Boo to that, but applause for the speedy response.
My recently-purchased MacBook is now fully loaded with all of my most-needed software and “stuff.” Since I opted to go with the not-newly-updated and much less expensive MacBook rather than the whiz-bang new-Mac-smell of the just-updated MacBook Pro, I won’t bore you with a long review. I’ll just say that it’s a nice and logical upgrade from my trusty but aging iBook G4, at a great price ($882 out the door, which is less than the original purchase price of the iBook) and it’s lighter to carry to work as it’s quite a bit more compact. See?
As you can see, I am giving up FireWire, which I used exactly twice (we have some FireWire portable hard drives that we use at the office, which can also be connected via USB), and an internal modem, which I don’t think I ever used.
Now, after thinking about what’s on my Mac and what’s on my PC, I’m wondering about something else. Continue reading
So late last week, I received a call from Towerstream, the new broadband provider for our workplace. So what, you say? Well, we didn’t realize we’d left Sparkplug Communications. We certainly hadn’t requested it… yet… as our contract is not up until July. It turns out that Sparkplug has divested their holdings in the Chicago and Nashville markets. Friday’s call from Towerstream, the company that acquired those holdings, was the first notification we received. Neither I, nor our office manager, as the primary/technical and billing contacts, had received so much as a phone call, email, or voice mail from Sparkplug. Continue reading
I’m not really a big fan of Jimmy Fallon, or the current incarnation of Late Night, except for Slow Jam the News. But I totally love these “6-bee” Glee parodies…
Good stuff!
Speaking of Glee, I didn’t expect to like this week’s Madonna-themed episode, but there was more to like than not. Didn’t really need to see that “Vogue” number two weeks in a row, though.
That should probably be more like “practice makes perfect, but not if you practice your mistakes, only if you practice doing things correctly.” But that’s too long to say all the time. And anyway, right now I want to figure out the best way of using our limited back yard practice space efficiently, and so that we are not practicing any mistakes.
The second half of April kind of sneaked up on me. Freya and I were not entered in any rally obedience trials this month, but we did not get in as much good training time as I had hoped to. We didn’t totally waste the first half of the month, but we still have a lot to work on.
Yesterday’s rally class had its ups and downs. I’m still not able to get a full 6 feet to the right of the jump if I want to be sure that Freya will go over it, and not around it. The strategy remained the same as last week: lower jump height and handler closer to the jump on the run-by. I have ruled out injury or discomfort as Freya’s reason for sometimes refusing the jump. It’s more likely that she is being lazy or smart or both, and is taking the path of least resistance. Unfortunately, not acceptable for this particular sport! Continue reading
I haven’t been much for taking pictures of any of my wheels, not even the ones I really liked. I never did find any photos of my 1990 Harley-Davidson Sportster XLH883H (the ones you might remember seeing here in a past post are of my 1989 Sportster). It seems odd that I didn’t take a picture when I first got it. Maybe because it was and is almost bone stock. And I didn’t take one today as it left with one of Dan’s club members.
I’m a little bit sad, but I hope Carlos has fun with it and takes good care of it. It’s time that bike got back in the wind.
