I have to write about this:
I am getting married tomorrow, and we'd planned on spending a couple of nights at the Brazos House B&B in Waco in their "big cottage". We made the reservation several weeks ago, in spite of the proprietor's inability to return calls. I called today to check that they still had our reservation, and was rather surprised to hear that the cottage was no longer available, due to a tree fall from heavy rain. The manager simply forgot to call us while he was out of town. Imagine what would have happened if we'd arrived without double checking, first! Good Grief! So, that's my rant on that establishment.

I am uploading to this site that sells prints of the images that I upload. It might make it easier for me to sell from the dotphoto.com site than it would be to build my own shopping pages. Anyhow, I'm giving it a try.

I know that I am not alone in this complaint about my wireless phone service provider. I decided to take them up on the offer to add on a second line of wireless service, so that I can communicate with my fiancé using the free mobile-to-mobile feature. Yesterday's attempt to activate that second line of service took about 2.5 hours to accomplish. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but I detected that things were about to go off course when the operator said that she would need my credit card number to verify me, even though I've been slave to their service for nearly ten years. This came as a surprise even to her. I provided the number and things seemed to get back on track. At this point, I am trying to pay attention to my fiancé's daughter, who is taking her weekly gymnastics lesson. When it comes time to provide the shipping address, there is another hiccup: the AT&T operator cannot get my office address to verify in the FedEx database. There's a Mailboxes, Etc. next door to me, and FedEx delivers to them every day. We have the same street address, but different suite numbers. Not wanting to stall any longer (the operator had a case of laryngitis), she takes down my home address and tell me that she will transfer me to someone who can carry on with the address verification for my office address. She transfers me, and Amy, the woman who is supposed to be able to solve the shipping address problemo begins to talk to me about the issue. Within thirty seconds, the call is dropped and I have to call them back. The next person that I talk to (Carla) says that I cannot change the shipping address, that I will have to cancel the order and start all over again! So, I went to work hounding this one to change the address and/or to put Amy back on. "Amy has stepped out." So, I ask for a supervisor. Bad idea. I get put on hold, or as I like to call it, "time out." After a few minutes, I hang up and call back. It's Carla, again! And I am back on hold! Hang up. Call back and cancel the order. Start from scratch. The next operator tells me that I cannot activate a second line of service until the next day, as the "system is down." I will have to wait another day. I attempt to tell her that I just activated and cancelled service within minutes of this call and want to start over with the ordeal. Hold. Hang up. Call back. Finally, I find someone (Nathan?) who irons things out, waives the shipping charges and restores my confidence, but not for long. The CSR to whom he transfers me in order to upgrade my plan to meet with the demands of the promotion tells me that she cannot detect evidence that I have activated a second line. Nathan tells her that she will have to activate my "sharable plan" before she can see the second line. She does, but she still cannot. So, as I close this entry and get back to work, I anticipate adding another chapter to the epic that is my detestable mLife...

Target : Club Wedd

Less than two weeks remain for people to get us stuff on the registries. We are way behind in getting registered for items that we can use in the home, so take a look at what we've selected. There are a host of small items on the Target registry that we'd really like.

I just returned from lunch with my fiancé. She had some gift certificates to a local barbeque joint in Waco called Michna's. The gift certificates dated back to 2002, but they had no expiration date on them, so we didn't hesitate to present them at the counter. Besides, they'd honored them just a few months ago. The manager could not have looked or behaved more upset if we had told her that her brand of hair bleach was being discontinued. After retreating to the office for ten minutes, she returned to tell us that today was the last day that she would honor the coupons -- which was fine with us, because we won't be going back to be treated as if we were trying to rob the place.