Do What Your Mother Says

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

So it has been a while since I have blogged. I was reminded of this today by my mother. We were at my grandmother's house celebrating her birthday (mmm, ice cream cake) and she reminded me of this (more of a reprimand actually). So, Mom, this one's for you.

We actually have high speed internet (relatively speaking) at the house and although it worked pretty good from Tuesday around 7 PM to early Friday evening, the honeymoon quickly was over and internet was down until sometime early Sunday morning and it has been hit and miss for most of today. This is about how it should be now that I think about it. If I were to script what would cause me the most pain, it would not have been to have the site survey done and then have been told that internet was not an option, rather, it is truly more painful to have a wonderful 3 day experience (to get my hopes up) then dash those hopes with a frustrating 48 hour period of sporadic connectivity. Yes, this is truly the most painful way (and thus it is so). I have no idea why the connection is so bad. I don't think it is due to it being the weekend (more users online maybe) or perhaps it is the weather interfering with my line of site connection. This shoots a hole in my plans to work from home on a more regular basis (unless of course I check the weather forecast first). It is early and I do have a (30) day period where I can cancel the whole thing but I have a feeling it will be just good enough for home use that I cannot cancel in good conscious.

Working from home Thursday and Friday was weird. I have not worked from home in a little over a year. I got back into the groove on Friday though when around 3:00 I realized I had not brushed my teeth or even gotten dressed yet. I actually only showered after the internet connection died around 6:00 (maybe internet at home is not that great of an idea). I did discover that my headset interfered with the wireless router that I am borrowing from my mom. Fortunately my really old regular phone (900 Mhz) does not interfere.

Thursday night we went out for dinner. I decided this right after the wife asked (demanded) that we consider the idea of a family night out. We ended up at Chili's (our default) where the son and I accidently ordered ribs. You see we wanted a burger that was new to the menu. It was called the Shiner Brock BBQ burger and sounded good to us (as we usually share a plate). However, we did notice that they had a $10 menu that included both a ½ appetizer and an entrée and we THOUGHT the burger that we wanted was one of the choices. However, all I saw was Shiner Brock and neglected to see that it was actually a ½ rack of ribs and not the burger. It was only after our plate was in front of us that we discovered our mistake. Now you have to now my son and I to know that we really dislike getting our hands dirty so the thought of picking up the bbq smeared rack with our bare hands is just short of torture but we pressed on and the son is now a huge fan of ribs (and I admit that it was quite tasty). We did have to fight over the sole wet nap that was included on the plate (actually I surrendered it when I saw his face).

Well it is time now to see if I have lost my internet between the time of starting this blog and the time I am trying to post it.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon