Happy Sunday! I went out for pizza last night. I had the worst pizza of my life. Tasteless and full of grease. I ordered two slices which in regular terms is about a half of a pizza. One of them filled me up. I took the other one to go. Perhaps it will be good cold but I am not eager to find out. I will go back to this place but just won’t ever order their pizza again. They have plenty of other options, one of which is a baked Cod Dinner and that sounds really yummy. I got to see a lot of cute guys but the place with dimly lit and the lights flickered like crazy, that was annoying. Service could have been better but my waiter was juggling multiple tables and I think that in it’s self was quite the act.
When I came home I checked on my handy work outside. Everything was just as I left it and nothing appeared to try to claw it’s way out of the ground. Which is good news. I need to go check on it again just to see how things have faired overnight, I expect to find it in the same condition. After this next look I don’t plan to keep checking on it. I am fairly confident that I didn’t bury anything alive, just want the piece of mind of knowing that I am right about that.
The Water Softener cycled over night and good news it’s not a broken drain line. This was all just as I thought rain water. Now it’s a matter of waiting to see if my repairs fixed the issue and for that I have to wait for the next rain fall. I think that will occur later this week. I will keep an eye on the forecast. We need another monsoon for true test but I will take whatever will fall from the sky.
I’m working on the last load of laundry. Still need to clean the house but I am putting that off just because I want to put myself first and let other things come second. I’m choosing to pamper myself a bit.
Got started on another fantasy story last night, it felt really good. Once I got to a stopping point I watched some porn and while I was really tired I put my all into it and got the results I wanted. Then it was time for bed. Not right away but shortly there after.
Slept okay and woke up early just to turn over to wake up again and do the same thing. Eventually it was the right time and I hauled out of bed. Fed the cats, threw on clothes, got my meds and headed out for breakfast and then usual morning shopping. I ordered way too much food at breakfast and won’t ever do that again. The positive take away is that I am learning from my mistakes. Made my Target run and I spent about as much as I would spend at Sam’s Club but got far less to take home.
Tonight I am thinking Mexican for supper, unless I get some other wild idea. I’ve been thinking about it ever since I sat down at Breakfast. Back when my late spouse was alive we always had a tough decision to make on where we wanted to go but that was pleasing two pallets so the degree of difficulty was higher because we often each wanted something the other didn’t. However, we compromised and gave in to each other. Now I just have myself to please and while it sounds easy that is also not so often the case, primarily because I put others first and don’t prioritize myself.
Yesterday I got curious and wanted to check the battery on my phone. I was at like 87% performance the last time I looked which was last month. Now I am in the 70% range and it’s telling me to arrange for service to get the battery swapped out. I’ve never had a battery swapped in an iPhone I usually just get a new phone. However, I really like what I have and while I would like to upgrade by the time you factor in the stress of getting things situated on a new device, accessories to buy and the cost of the phone in the long run it’s far easier to just keep what I have. The good news is that there is a Best Buy close and they are authorized to do the work. Apple says that the cost is like $79 which isn’t bad but retailers can mark their cost up. I’ve read that it takes anywhere from an hour to two hours to complete. I still have to research what is needed to get this done, in other words if they need my passcode because I really don’t want a stranger looking at my data so I’d have to make some quick changes to lock things down and probably remove my work email for safety. If next weekend wasn’t Easter I’d schedule it and still might. If not then for sure the following weekend and I know I will be on-call but I don’t want to let this go a long time because I have a feeling that the battery performance will continue to drop like a stone and before you know it I will be boxed in. The good news is that the work is done by appointment only and you can schedule everything from your phone, which makes it nice. Once I do get this scheduled I will let you know how it goes. My phone is roughly 2 1/2 years old.
Since I am talking about my phone seems like the perfect time to gripe about AT&T. They are making changes to their auto pay discount. They did this a couple years back saying that if you enrolled in Auto Pay and gave them a debit card they would give you $10 off and a credit card would give you $5 off per month. With their changes that take effect later this month they will give you nothing for a credit card, unless it’s an AT&T Credit Card through Citibank. The will give you $5 off for a debit card and if you want the $10 discount you have to give them ACH access to debit your checking account. Their security sucks and they have been hacked more than once. I had no qualms about giving them a debit card because all of my debit cards are locked. It looks like they charge my debit card but I always logon and pay by credit card. So I’ve been getting the $10 discount all along. There is no way in hell that I am giving them ACH access to a checking account or even a savings account. If they get hacked again and I did that I would be sunk. You can easily get replacement credit or debit cards, that’s not so easy when it’s a bank account your talking about.
This change has me pondering to switch my primary cell service over to Visible which is run by Verizon. I’ve got a line of service with them and opened it for dating purposes but it’s the line I use for data because it’s truly unlimited and it’s only $25 per month. They just changed up their line up so there is a $35 option that gives you more of a premium network experience with faster data and better video options, plus it’s all unlimited use. They don’t tack on fees or taxes it’s all included in the price of the package you choose. Plus you can pay by the month or the year. If you pay for a year of service there is a greater discount. I had a horrible experience years ago when I ported over to Mint Mobile and I swore that I would just stick with AT&T and pay their bullshit fees and prices. However, I am kind of at my breaking point. The one thing that AT&T does right is their spam and text protection, provided that you subscribe to the pay option, which I do and it’s around $5 per month. I’d loose that but Visible has some spam and fraud calling protections in place, they don’t offer a pay option for better granular control. However, I use YouMail for voice mail and they have pretty good spam call protection in place. I did the math and it would save me roughly $11 per month. That the $5 for the call protection I pay for and the $6 for changing my current rate plan to Visible. I’ve got a low cost option with AT&T since I don’t really use them other than for calling/texting and the cost of my rate plan is $40 per month before discounts and then added taxes and fees. It works out to $36 per month now and that is for 2GB of data per month. Go over that and it’s $10 per gig. Texting & Calling are unlimited. Since I have essentially test driven Visible I know they have coverage everywhere I am at. I’d love to break up with AT&T but in the end I wonder if it’s really worth it. I’ve also thought about asking them to bar or restrict data on my account and just give me a plan with unlimited calling and texting – they can do that but the question is will they? They did for a large company I worked for in the past who would have some folks not have data or other folks just have data only and no calling. However that was a commercial account and big business for them. I am just a small fry and in the grand scheme of things they could careless if I stay or if I go, they are still going to turn a profit. It’s just that I’ve had AT&T service ever since I was a teenager and cell phones came into being more common place. That’s a hell of a long time. I am pleased with service I just hate the bullshit fees and the fact at a whim they can increase those fees (which they do) and you get little if any notice and there isn’t much you can do about it short of switching. Apparently the other carriers have or will be making similar changes to their auto pay programs but I don’t let anyone debit any bank account ever in today’s world the risk far outweighs any reward that I might be offered. I’ve got enough to worry about as it is I don’t need to add to my worry list.
Thanks for reading my rambles. Now I am off to scour the web for a bit before I give in and go up to clean the house and eventually head out for dinner. I hope that the week ahead will be less stressful but I don’t expect that will be the case. Still doesn’t keep me from hoping! I hope you have a great week ahead and life smiles on you. Talk with you all again really soon. Take care!
No comments:
Post a Comment