My weekend was indeed awesome, as I spent it with one of my most favoritist people in the whole wide world, my daughter! The drive down to SLO was uneventful, but the sky remained brown almost all the way there. Turns out that there is a fire at Big Sur also. Luckily no fires in SLO county. Yay!
My DD is starting her second year in her off campus apartment. Her former roommate moved out, taking with her the table, the TV, the coffee table, the kitchen clock, many dishes and utensils and the INTERNET! So my main mission was to get DD back online. She had told me that the only internet game in town was cable internet from a company called Charter. But I still went through the phone book and called all the numbers, hoping to get someone local. Well it turns out she was right. We ended up going to the local office, because every time I called the number in the book, it ended up going to some company called "Wave" in Washington state!
The office visit was uneventful. The gal gave us the "self-install" kit, which I was confident I could handle with ease. The instructions were to set it up, then call the 888 number so they could ping the MAC address and turn on the connection. Easy, right?
WELL
DD has no land line. So I was calling the 888 number from my cell phone. The first time I got through, the person on the other end of the line could not find our order in the records. Then he asked me where San Luis Obispo was. He seemed completely baffled when I said "Central Coast". We were then disconnected, and I tried again. The second time I got through, the person again couldn't find us, he thought I was in Washington state, and then he asked me if I was in the Sacramento area. (Northern California, about 300 miles from SLO) He transferred me to someone else, and this third person knew what was going on. By calling from my cell, I was being routed to this other company based in Washington state which had recently acquired a Sacramento area cable company. By this time I had spent over an hour on the phone with no results. The third guy suggested that we find someone with a cell with a local area code to call the 888 number and thus bypass the robot intelligence that determined that we live in Sacto.
So DD found a friend with a local cell phone the next day and it took all of 10 minutes. Yay!
We also went to the Goodwill warehouse and found her a dining table and a coffee table. Scored and got both for under $30.
We ALSO saw FOUR movies in THREE nights! a new world record, but 2 of them were at the drive in.
She has a summer job as a barista at a coffee shop walking distance to her apt. So while she was at work I took the wonder dog to the beach...15 minutes away. Nothing like doing nothing and watching the waves and smelling the clean, smoke free air!
*sigh*
I did many loads of laundry for her, and gave our ancient 20 year old kitty some special love. D and I laughed a lot and had a great time.
Came back, spent a day getting caught up around here and then went back to the beach today with my girlfriend and her teenage daughter! It was chilly and foggy, but what can I say...it was the beach!
Got a little too much sun, but that's OK.
I am tired and happy.
Take care all,
SG
Survival Goddess "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -Alice Walker
