Thank God no one died in that school shooting yesterday. What a sad way to start off the school year, and for those starting kindergarten, what a sad way to start off your educational experience.
My Blue Bell and Blue Bunny ice cream post may have not made any sense to those of you outside of Texas. All you need to know is that people in Texas take their Blue Bell very seriously.
I was watching season seven of ‘Monk’ and Robert Loggia was a guest star, which made me think of this old commercial.
Time Warner is my Internet provider and I’ve been having problems for the last two weeks, and when you work from home and can only do so online, that’s a big deal. Basically, the modem will reset itself or the signal becomes randomly intermittent. I’ve been going back and forth with them three or four times and dealing with off-shore phone representatives which makes it even more frustrating, especially when I tell them the basic stuff I’ve done, like power cycling and only connecting the modem to the computer, and then then have me do it all over again. I have a technician who is coming out on Friday but I got a call from an off-shore rep telling me that they discovered they problem and that it was a coding issue and a redeployment was performed which has remedied the situation. The terminology struck me as odd because that’s common language in my line of work but not for a typical customer.
Our neighbors from Mexico were blasting Tejano music while cooking out last night. I had no idea Tejano radio stations played English speaking commercials. They also have some visitors who own a roughed-up RV that’s been parked in the back for about a week. The vents are sealed with what looks like Great Stuff foam. I can’t help but think of ‘Breaking Bad’. To add to it, I believe they run their own car lot and supply it by shipping cars in from Mexico.
Another neighbor of ours is a married couple, the woman is from Canada and the man is from Mexico. We call them our NAFTA neighbors.
We were eating at Jason’s Deli last night and I informed the person who brought our food to our table that I was missing the salsa that was part of our order. He said, “Sorry señor, no speak English.” This was bit surprising because I thought “salsa” was Spanish, or at least botched Spanish. I then performed what I thought was the universal sign for salsa by picking up my tortilla chip and doing the dipping motion. He smile and left and brought back some white fruit dip. As friendly as I could I told him that not what I wanted, what I wanted was “rojo” and then he brought back Chalula hot sauce. I felt bad for the guy as he was a nice as could be and trying his darndest, and I said not to worry and went up to the counter to get my hot sauce but when he saw what I actually wanted, he had a look on his face as if he never seen salsa before.
On last night’s ‘King of the Hill’ Bobby showed his grandfather a picture of his girlfriend and kinda innocently told him that she just started her period. His grandfather replied, “Ah, give it 50 years and it’ll go away.”
Keith, I do tech support for TWC. If you have any more trouble, don't put up with the outsourced people. They are worthless. Ask to be transferred to Tier 1 support, they are all local. I get calls transferred to me from the outsourced group you are talking to all the time. Most of the time, I just roll my eyes and tell them to give me the call. They are clueless.
Also, if you really want your issue resolved quickly, ask to speak to a "tech ops supervisor". Those are the magic words. You won't speak to one right then, but they will schedule a trouble call and enter an escalation ticket so that a tech supervisor follows up with you to ensure everything is resolved in a satisfactory manner.
RPM might be right. 🙁
It's incredible how different it is on the other side of the border (obviously, a generalization here). But, overall, what we see as unsightly isn't even thought of as "inappropriate" in the slightest in their communities. I have noticed, though, that if you ask them nicely to change, they are also the nicest and most giving people you will ever meet. We had some neighbors move into our neighborhood and they were just so outrageously different than everyone else on our street – the constant stream of cars, loud music at all hours, and horrible karaoke. Within 6 months, they quieted down significantly and just fit in now. They still have a great party but they cut the volume in half…and everyone's smiling demeanor returned.
KXTN is streaming online. And yeah, it's in both English and Spanish, or Tex-Mex really, but one gets used to it.
I felt how you feel though, driving through Louisiana and I found KBON. That was Cajun music, with commercials half in English and half in Cajun. Listen to that if you wanna get really confused. I believe they're streaming online also. I really liked it though, because it sounds just like tejano, lol.
I actually went to a restaurant in Breaux Bridge, and they had a live band. Sounded just like Tejano, you could even dance the same steps to it.
Keith, I do tech support for TWC. If you have any more trouble, don't put up with the outsourced people. They are worthless. Ask to be transferred to Tier 1 support, they are all local. I get calls transferred to me from the outsourced group you are talking to all the time. Most of the time, I just roll my eyes and tell them to give me the call. They are clueless.
Also, if you really want your issue resolved quickly, ask to speak to a "tech ops supervisor". Those are the magic words. You won't speak to one right then, but they will schedule a trouble call and enter an escalation ticket so that a tech supervisor follows up with you to ensure everything is resolved in a satisfactory manner.
I have a feeling those aren't "guests" in the RV, they are your new neighbors.
RPM might be right. 🙁
It's incredible how different it is on the other side of the border (obviously, a generalization here). But, overall, what we see as unsightly isn't even thought of as "inappropriate" in the slightest in their communities. I have noticed, though, that if you ask them nicely to change, they are also the nicest and most giving people you will ever meet. We had some neighbors move into our neighborhood and they were just so outrageously different than everyone else on our street – the constant stream of cars, loud music at all hours, and horrible karaoke. Within 6 months, they quieted down significantly and just fit in now. They still have a great party but they cut the volume in half…and everyone's smiling demeanor returned.
" I have noticed, though, that if you ask them nicely to change, they are also the nicest and most giving people you will ever meet."
Also when you visit with them, take Doug Free along.
KXTN is streaming online. And yeah, it's in both English and Spanish, or Tex-Mex really, but one gets used to it.
I felt how you feel though, driving through Louisiana and I found KBON. That was Cajun music, with commercials half in English and half in Cajun. Listen to that if you wanna get really confused. I believe they're streaming online also. I really liked it though, because it sounds just like tejano, lol.
I actually went to a restaurant in Breaux Bridge, and they had a live band. Sounded just like Tejano, you could even dance the same steps to it.