September we ended our months long fight with Embarq (used to be Sprint) - they had been upping our bill every month and not fixing it. In Sept we finally got fed up and canceled the phone and internet services. We didn't have the ability to get someone else on base so... no internet at home until we moved. We had big intentions of driving over to the library where we could log on... happened maybe twice. October was fun filled as we went to San Diego and hit Legoland (two days), Sea World, SD Zoo, and the beach! The Wild Bunch loved it! Mr Top Gun loved it! I was exhausted but, as we had free DSL in our hotel, I too loved it! |
In November Butch turned 6 and we found out that we, finally, would get to leave the desert for nice, green, crowded, Virginia (but we're so far out that we don't have to worry too much about the crowds)! In December the exchange student I'd been a liaison for had some rather insurmountable difficulties with her first host family. So, on Christmas Eve we acquired a daughter from Brazil! I'll call her Chica (which is Spanish I think and of course, they speak Portuguese in Brazil but... Chica sounds more interesting than The Girl).
Bear with me here, it takes time to get back to normal (normal? What is normal?). I'm trying to keep the house moving toward unpacked. I'm trying to assimilate a cat, four chickens (four more on Sunday) and two dogs. Of course, the really strong temptation is to just play online so I have to limit myself to breakfast coffee time! |
Ranchwife loves me so she's harrassing me. We have NO internet at home. We moved here two weeks and one day ago, we called for phone/internet service two weeks ago and we've had 3 supposed days where we were to wait for a service guy to come fix our phone line (no dial tone) and NOTHING! I'm seriously getting frustrated with Verizon but... Satan can't win this battle, Christ still Died on the Cross for me. Issuse Etc is BACK!!! www.issuesetc.org and www.piratechristianradio.com and I actually used the oven in our new house (which is bug infested and gross and need color badly!) this morning. We have all our furniture and Mr Top Gun (also known as my hero) put in a real live clothesline outside and we've been drying blankets and the rest of the wash for a whole day! Ahhhh, the country life, I'm trying to talk him into a fence (well, we'd have to talk the landlord into it first) so we can get a cow and a horse or two (hey Ranchwife, how many acres per horse, if they're eating the grass?). We're going to put chickens in and Mr Top Gun and the Wild Bunch (see future posting regarding their names) are currently shopping for lumber to build my gardens (we're putting in potatoes!). So, bear with me, I'm getting there - lots to do - gotta contact the landlord (who's overseas, what's with that, can't anything be easy - and has to use e-mail only - duh, no internet at home!) about getting a bug guy out to kill the bugs and the mice - maybe I'll just get a cat! |
A few weeks ago my favorite talk radio program Issues Etc was canceled - on Holy Tuesday no less - and the host and producer were fired. There was no explanation given, and after more than a week of letters, calls, and e-mails asking for answers the church (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) offices came out with the answer that the show was canceled for "Programatic and Business Reasons." A few days after that they changed the message to read "programatic and stewardship reasons." There has been a LOT of talk about this on The Wittenberg Trail, a sort of "Facebook" for Confessional Lutherans and those curious about Lutheranism. I found this YouTube video today on the WT and had to put a link here too! |