Got up and started moving around 9 a.m. like usual, and had a real spurt of energy. I unpacked about 3 bags of Christmas presents that had been set aside, while I frolicked with the family all last week. Not only did I unpack them, but I put them all in their rightful place. Started a pile on the bed in the back room for my trip next week....which is coming faster and faster all the time. I even unloaded the dishwasher and refiled it, after cleaning out the fridge of leftover food that was becoming moldy. It is garbage day tomorrow, so I wanted to get it out before it was picked up. By noon I was getting tired and slowed down on the couch till the UPS guy dropped a huge box on my door step. It was about 1 foot deep and 3 feet in length by 3 feet in width. So I couldn't even attempt to get it in the house and I couldn't figure out what it was or who it was from.
Shortly the mailman came, and Jim (from across the street) got my mail and brought it up to the door, and he put the box in the house for me. I soon figured out it was the small box from Comcast to change my digital converter to a HD converter. Not more than 2 inches deep and 10 inches long X 8 inches wide....why do they need such a big box?
I started to put it all together, and couldn't get the coaxial cord un-attached. So I call poor Doug. Like always he appears at my door in minutes. He get's it all set up, and we log online to activate it, and then the trouble began. It said it would take 45 minutes and then we got this error message on the screen....this was after about 45 minutes with Doug on the phone pushing buttons and responding with one word like "Yes" and finally was told it would now take another 45 minutes to activate it. So Doug went back to work (Don't tell Jimbo that he was working for me) and said I should call when it came on. Well it never came on, so at about 5 p.m. he called me back, and of course came back to call Comcast again. Again he pushed buttons a lot, got cut off twice, and finally the third try he got through to a real human-being It than took about 15 or 20 minutes and the guy finally got us a picture....but said it would be another 45 minutes for the stations to activate on the guide. So we could change the channel, but it wouldn't tell us what station we were watching. I don't know how long it took, but I now have it fully activated. Maybe 6 hours or so.
I didn't do much but sleep, cause I didn't even have a TV to watch all afternoon. Then my brother came to visit, and he stayed for about an hour. His daughter Theresa or as she is now called Terri, got married this afternoon, at a small intimate ceremony at her home in Coon Rapids. So since he was in the neighborhood, he stopped in. It was then time for me to watch the news and Jay Leno, and I figured I better get this blog written before I fall asleep like last night. It takes me about an hour to complete, cause I'm watching TV at the same time, and get distracted a lot. But it is time for me to go to bed. Love and Prayers, m
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