Awake: 6:23am Temp 28 sleep 6+18 sunny overnight @ Indiana, PA.
K & I have a quick breakfast, then drive to Nicktown & attend the 8:30am
Koffee Klub meeting for an hr. Afterward, we attend the 9:30am children’s
Mass with Father Job presiding. It was another interesting homily scenario
for the young kids to hear. After Mass, we have a short chat time with Flo
& Anna before walking across the street to check on our local mail.
Then it’s back to Indiana & lunch @ the Valley Dairy. En route to our
Motel, we check out: “Rosanne’s” take out or eat in restaurant. We’ve been
watching cars drive in & out of this place for weeks now so it’s time the
mystery was solved. They have been in business for 21 years & by the
obvious activity, they’ll continue to do well. Cafeteria style hot food is
purchased by the pound; then you can either eat inside the restaurant or
outside on pleasant days or just take the hot food or cold salads with you
for later.
Back @ our Motel room, I try desperately to log onto the Internet using my
cell phone as a Modem, just like I’ve been doing for 2 yrs or more.
Nothing! Something is wrong & I am suspicious that the young man @ Radio
Shack who I gave permission to upgrade my cell phone by giving him my
number, had something to do with it. Radio Shack sells Sprint products &
Derek mentioned to us that Sprint was now offering free roaming on their
cell phones. Well, when anyone mentions “Free” it gets our attention. I
innocently gave Derek our cell number; he called that # into the Sprint
system & bingo….from that moment on, our computer connection via cell
phone has been zip!
This is serious, so I felt compelled to get a man right on the case; I
even passed up the opportunity to visit the Footes because of this. 1st I
talk with technical support @ Sprint; they asked simple questions like:
are you putting the USB plug in properly & do you have a good signal on
the cell phone to work with! It takes time to connect & get anywhere with
this company; name, social security number; address, what kind of phone,
etc. If I answered those questions twice, I answered them a dozen times.
Finally some lady told me I needed to talk with an advanced support
technician. Aha, now we’re getting someplace. Michael had me go on line
with our computer using wi-fi & download a program that he felt would
solve our problem. It didn’t! Then he had his supervisor get involved; we
spent over an hr trying to solve this fluke to no avail. They think our
phone is an older model no longer recognized for Internet activity &
recommended us using our rebate dollars to purchase a new model. I thanked
him for his efforts & started looking for new phones with a faster
Internet connection method.
Around 6:00pm Kathy returns from the Footes; she brought hot food & cold
salad from Roseanne’s with her for our dinner: rolled, stuffed eggplant
and broccoli salad.
Later this evening, I spend more time looking @ the various hi-bred cell
phones & air cards listed on the Sprint & Nextel sites.
Even later, I call a Sprint call center in Arizona & talk with an Asian
girl about upgrading our cell phone. She says she really wants our
business & will do her best to help us make the right choices. I wasn’t
going to make a fast commitment with her so I hinted that I need more
time. She told me she will call tomorrow; I said “OK, between 10:00am & 12
noon.”
High temp=51 Lights out: 12:38am
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