Items #1 - #7, Sympathy in Order

Item # 1

We have a SkyMate system on the boat. We paid through October for use of this system. It worked in May 2-3 times, it worked - I think - once in June. It worked once in late July. I tried repeatedly during The Trip to use SkyMate, with the Kaptain hanging over my shoulder wanting to know why I couldn't make it work. I asked him repeatedly if there wasn't something he had to switch on at the electronic board and he said NO. After we got home I sent the SkyMate people an irate email about our bum system. After I got the boat unloaded and went to the dr. re: knees. shoulders, elbows, foot and hips, then I worked on getting my New Lovely Gift Of A Used Cell Phone Working, then I took my computer to the boat, turned on the a/c, called the SkyMate people and spent the better part of 1/2 a day trying to figure out what was the matter. The Matter was a User Error - the Power Was Not Turned On To The System. So, now remember this, the Kaptain has the system removed from the boat, puts it in a box in the house with the rest of the mountain of stuff to move, and plans to install SkyMate in his "new" boat that will be here probably Tues or Wed, just in time to make up the bed for weekend company to stay on the boat with their dog. (Just in case you got the college intellect to wonder why the system worked several times, it is because when the Kaptain gets to working in the electrical board he sometimes makes a few errors and does thinks like turn off the hot water and turn off the ice maker or refrigerator and freezer, or the water pump. You can just add to that list that he sometimes turns other things on and off by mistake. So apparently he turned on the SkyMate system in error a couple of times and then the next day turned it off again. That makes a lotta sense, doesn't it?)

Item #2

Kaptain gets a laptop for his birthday from the folks at the office. HALLELUJAH. I brought it home and got it going but was not able to get the internet installed due to a technical question that I could not answer. Kaptain didn't need that laptop Sat/Sun anyway, he was too busy running around messing with boats (4 of them). But the laptop Does have a solitare game on it -
guess what - the Kaptain doesn't like that version. So I find the version on my laptop and am assured that I can download it when we can get him an internet connection. He does not like the laptop because his deadbeat, crazy, manipulating, python daughter-in-law was sent to buy it because her husband thinks she is Mrs. Knowledgeable Computer Person Of The World. She called me once on my cell (never uses my house phone, I didn't hear the cell ring), she called the office 6 times, was 2 hours late arriving with the computer, missed the birthday party. She brought the Kaptain a birthday card, forgot to give it to him, then mailed it (small card) to the tune of $.60 with a note that said "ha, ha I forgot to give it to you so am mailing it" on his office postal machine at almost twice the cost of a stamp.

Item #3

Kaptain decides to drive me to Best Buy to purchase a router to make wireless connections for both of our laptops at home. He wants to be able to play solitare on his sorry-ass computer whenever and wherever he wants. So ... I found him a salesman who assured him how easy it was to connect the wirless. Just one cord, he said, just plug one end into the BellSouth modem and the other end into the router and you have wireless. What a deal. We got it on sale. We saved $20. BUT, we have to mail in rebate. Got home. I HAD to fill out the rebate stuff right away. I cut out the proof of purchase and got that all done. Step #2, open box, find cord and do 2 plug-ins as told. NO, no, no, I said ... there is a CD here that clearly says to play this FIRST before doing ANYTHING, there was no instruction booklet or paper. NO, he says, We Do NOT Have To Do That. All we have to do is the 2 plug-ins, DIDN'T YOU HEAR WHAT THE MAN AT THE STORE TOLD US, DO THE 2 PLUG INS AND IT IS SIMPLE !!!!!! Guess what, 2 plug-ins later we had no wireless. I had to spend 2 1/2 hours with an English-2nd-language very patient lady in INDIA to get all the installation done. In the meantime the Kaptain had gone to the gym to ride the bike for 15 minutes as instructed by the dr. So ... he came home and wanted to know if I had wireless. I was still on the phone. He sat and waited till I got off. YES, I said, 2 1/2 hours of wireless installation. GREAT! he said, I want to play solitare on your computer with the wireless. So I sat him down to do that and went to the other end of the house. In a few minutes he hollers, Come Here ! What I said. He said, now I want to use SkyMate. USE SKYMATE, I said, WHAT DO YOU MEAN USE SKYMATE????? He yelled a little louder, can't you hear me I WANT TO USE SKYMATE NOW. I don't know what he thought, so I slammed the key down to go back to the desk top, pushed the SkyMate icon and guess what ??? We did not have a SkyMate connection.

Item #4

I think I will send the Kaptain to computer school at Reeser Enterprises. He can sleep on the trundle bed, use the potty right there, work on that nice setup at Reeser Enterprises and learn more in a few weeks that I could teach him in a year. Please to feed him some Duck Sausage every day til its gone.

Item #5

Kaptain has his nose out of joint because I'm having my left foot fixed lst week in January. He wants to get something fixed too. So he is off to the (same) doctor this a.m. to get him to operate on his hip again. I've already said, I GET JANUARY, TWO WEEKS IN BED, 3 WEEKS IN A WALKER - YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT SOME TIME THAT WON'T MEAN I HAVE TO WAIT ON YOU DURING MY RECOVERY. He says, NO PROBLEM, we'll have it done at the same time and just help each other. LORD, DELIVER ME, HURRY.

Item #6

Did school start in Frankin or Sweetwater today? Or are you still sitting on your bottoms and taking pictures for more Blogs to relieve the stress?

Item #7

I need some cheer, got any???? Yo Mama is standing by with her wireless on and running.