Ruminating

Those of you who are family, and some of you who are friends, already know it, but the oldest of my brothers has cancer.

Little Pieces Of Our Lives Slip Away Every Day

It wasn't just celebrities departing this life in the last few days. We look at them, think we know them, and mourn their passing as if they were integral parts of our daily lives - but they're not. On the other hand, every day, somewhere close, someone dies who actually is in some way integral to someone's life.

#(*^!@)(*^&%# Cable!

I think there must be a company policy at Comcast against releasing a mailing address for the company. After I got mad enough about the last call to "Customer Service" that I reported here, I called again, and asked for a mailing address. The reply was "I don't have that information."

Dumb!

You won't believe what happened yesterday... I got a bill from my old cable company! The dumbasses sent me a bill, claiming that I owed them for a cable modem!

Free... At Last!

Well, it has finally happened. I've broken the umbilical cord with my cable TV service provider. Actually, if you follow my blog, you know that I declared my divorce from them over a month ago. The service termination date, if you can call what we got from them service, was last Thursday. They were supposed to pick up the equipment that day, and that my friends, was the seed for this blog.

Every Time You Go Away...

... you take a piece of me with you.

It's 8:18 AM and she has just left for Jacksonville, to see her mother. I understand why. I have a mother too, and there are times when you just have to take care of business.

I Just Filed For Divorce...

... from the cable company. From October 2000 until January or so of 2008, I had had both cable TV and internet service with the cable vendor serving my subdivision. For about the last two or three years of that time, I was usually unhappy with the internet service we were getting.