RV Blog--Life in a Box. This just ain't 'camping' any more.... Monday, July 28, 2003: Ah, life in a box. So, I finally bit the bullet and signed a contract with Verizon, so I can supposedly log onto the internet with my cell phone, right? I've got the laptop, loaded with the proper software, the connection cord hooked up to my new cell phone and I dial the Earthlink number--only, the phone doesn't dial it! sigh. So I call up Verizon, get a tech--whose English is a 'little' accented--and I spend nearly an hour with him telling me to click this, and click that, and type in this and that. No connection. FINALLY, he calls his supervisor, then calls me back and tells me I need to find a hard line and go download the Windows updates on the MS website AND go to the Verizon store and get a software upgrade--at no cost to me, of course.... Wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't gone thru the same sort of thing LAST summer, only to be told that my whole problem was that I only had a FreeUP phone and I would have to sign up for a regular account before it'd work. It should NOT be so difficult to get online on the road, in this day and age!!! MEANWHILE, the circus is comin' to town! The Harleys are pouring in. The rumble is beginning to build! The campground we're in is beginning to fill--with everything from loners with tents to semi-tractors pulling RV/trailer rigs, loaded with shiny bikes. By this time next weekend, we will have peaked and we won't be able to step off our site without bumping into a bike, or a biker! Makes me homesick for the Good Old Days when we did our camping and traveling on a motorcycle.... Keith has promised that today he's going to get some lattice and install it around the bottom of the trailer so we can finish up making a dog run for the puppies. Untangling their leads has nearly become a full-time gig for me. Let them out, go untangle them, they wrestle a while, and I go untangle them, they fuss to come in, and I have to untangle them....and on and on! MAY I RECOMMEND to anyone contemplating life on the road with dog(s)--get one! And pick very carefully! ONE. With a 'laid back' personality, preferably! Well, Keith's up. Time to head out for Wallyworld before the tourists get up and out on the streets! Later.... Dinah // Monday, July 28, 2003 ______________________ Comments: Post a Comment
Ah, life in a box. So, I finally bit the bullet and signed a contract with Verizon, so I can supposedly log onto the internet with my cell phone, right? I've got the laptop, loaded with the proper software, the connection cord hooked up to my new cell phone and I dial the Earthlink number--only, the phone doesn't dial it! sigh. So I call up Verizon, get a tech--whose English is a 'little' accented--and I spend nearly an hour with him telling me to click this, and click that, and type in this and that. No connection. FINALLY, he calls his supervisor, then calls me back and tells me I need to find a hard line and go download the Windows updates on the MS website AND go to the Verizon store and get a software upgrade--at no cost to me, of course.... Wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't gone thru the same sort of thing LAST summer, only to be told that my whole problem was that I only had a FreeUP phone and I would have to sign up for a regular account before it'd work. It should NOT be so difficult to get online on the road, in this day and age!!! MEANWHILE, the circus is comin' to town! The Harleys are pouring in. The rumble is beginning to build! The campground we're in is beginning to fill--with everything from loners with tents to semi-tractors pulling RV/trailer rigs, loaded with shiny bikes. By this time next weekend, we will have peaked and we won't be able to step off our site without bumping into a bike, or a biker! Makes me homesick for the Good Old Days when we did our camping and traveling on a motorcycle.... Keith has promised that today he's going to get some lattice and install it around the bottom of the trailer so we can finish up making a dog run for the puppies. Untangling their leads has nearly become a full-time gig for me. Let them out, go untangle them, they wrestle a while, and I go untangle them, they fuss to come in, and I have to untangle them....and on and on! MAY I RECOMMEND to anyone contemplating life on the road with dog(s)--get one! And pick very carefully! ONE. With a 'laid back' personality, preferably! Well, Keith's up. Time to head out for Wallyworld before the tourists get up and out on the streets! Later.... Dinah // Monday, July 28, 2003
