Here's Arthur

My good friend

The firemen went round and round

but they could'nt put Humpty Dumpty off. I think it was started by tiles.

A fire alarm went off

Why do they all show up?

Back again to my Holliday ritual

And I've given a lot this day.

Time to immigrate?

What a day! Christmas is being celebrated throughout most of America but I’m still in a mode to either work or emigrate to get away from this nutty place. The more I think about it, the more I want to live in Vancouver, BC. Canada has a lot more taxes, but it has the metric system and perhaps a fairer standard of living. I’m impressed by what I hear about the Canadians. Their politics is not as harsh as this place, with a commonwealth of countries system that might be a little less unruly

Line at the off-ramp

The malls are REAL crowded today.

A family feast

with songs

Happy Hanaukah

I thought it was over

Low on gas

And driving in the sticks.

PGA Tour Upgrade

Tigar Woods played here. It's a lot of money for the membership. I'm talking in the ten's of thousands of $! I have to go back here again on Wednesday.

I get no respect

Today was an interesting day. I learned that AOL really sucks, even for their broadband service. One of my clients made 3 calls to AOL with no luck! They kept giving him the runaround until he was frustrated enough to scream. Just by co-incidence, I plugged a network cable into the wrong port on the router, and that combined with a ppoe setting(you'll have to look that up) got me online. I guessed later that adding an aol dialer, without adding the actual program, would get me online from a laptop wirelessly; and it worked!

On the way back, I tried calling Collen, the lady that I had a long conversation with on Wednesday. She picked up the phone and immediately slammed it down when she heard my voice! No respect my friends, no respect. Then to tap it all off, I got a call from Onforce claiming that the phone problem that I went to fix, couldn't be fixed by another tech. They have to call the phone company to fix it and they want me to take the heat. I had to explain how this problem existed before I got there and may need a deeper fix than either of us were capable of doing. It burned my blood a bit to know that so many people need a scapegoat instead of fixing the damm problem.

Just an afternote...I need to focus on the positive instead of the negative. I had a good day overall and made a client very happy. That's the main point of this day!

Mountains of tires

Inside the hall of the mountain tire king.

Trust the Midas touch

Waiting for a brake check.

Always have a tone generator

This was another day of bad frustrations. I went to a long-term hotel to try and trace a line that went bad. Well, the line is a phone line and my testing kit is for a network cable. So, I went into the phone area and tried to visually trace it on the punch panel. I think I found it but no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to work. Since, I didn't have the right equipment, I just had to head home. What a rough day!

Lunchtime at Panera

Their soup is really good

A hectic crowd at noon

Why don't these people order online?

A hectic day

I went to 3 sites today but didn't take a picture of any of them. Sorry. I almost forgot my phone at one of the sites, but remembered it when my bluetooth headset beeped when it went out of range.

Drugstore at sunset

The view was worth the drug prices

A busy day at Borders

The amount of people here is standing room only

A day full of wonder

I had to go back to the doc's place because the "new" video card gave out. I'm hoping that it wasn't the motherboard because I gave him a 2 year old card that I had and that worked. Then I had major problems with his profile and everything else on their. So, it's wipe and reload! Now he's got a new computer but there's still a bit of work to do. I might remote in over the weekend and get it done. Meanwhile, my other big client can't find a stupid accounting file on her system. I was supposed to go there today but couldn't make it because of my previous committment. It sucks when your squeezed for time.