~ Thursday.... in my backyard ~

:::holding smelling salts for anyone who needs them:::  Yeap, two actual entries two days in a row.  Imagine that.  LOL   Today was better.  The hole I left in the wall yesterday from getting out of bed on the wrong side softened the blow this morning :)~   Naaaaaahhh I'm being a smart ass.  I didn't smack into the wall either day.   Just that saying, ya know?  

 

Work was work... it was a long day.  With the few days off, a couple of travel days, and meetings, I've fallen a bit behind.  Not saying anything about the added duties the past couple of weeks.   I just need to get on roll.  In a routine.  Get caught up.

 

I had an interesting thing happen.  Pissed me right the #@%$ off.  My sister is changing from a dish service back to cable.  She let me know she will be getting cable for the TV, Internet, and phone service.  Her monthly charge?  Less then what I pay for basic cable and Internet.  How can that be?  A promotion right?   Wrong!  I thought she might have misunderstood.  Didn't make sense.  She has a better cable package and an additional service and it was less $$, just sounded so wrong.   So....... I call the cable company.   Low and behold since the new cable company took over completely they came up with 'packages'... they call it price locking.  A two year commitment gets you a better rate.  WTF!?!?!  They tell new customers on the ads, with lots of small print (that I assumed said it was for a certain period of time), but do not notify their existing customers of the change.  Let me tell you, I had smoke coming out of my ears when I heard the commitment would save me $40 a month.  I wanted a credit, but was not getting it because it is advertised....  for new customers.  Damn I guess I should freeze frame the TV commercials and get a magnifying glass so I could read the 10 lines of small print they flash across the TV.  :::heavy sigh:::  Needless to say I changed my package.  I upgraded the cable package.  So now I have freakin 4000 channels and still have nothing to watch.  LOL  But I did get the NHL Network ::big ass grin::  The sister that lives with me......... oh she is thrilled.  LMAO!!!  So, more cable channels, movie channels, sports channels, digital, and all for less then what I was paying before.  Damn straight I stopped on my way home, got the digital box and signed up.  Let me just say call your cable company and check.  With all the deregulations and allowing of phone services to get into the cable industry prices are changing.  You know these idiots are not going to call or send you a flyer to notify you that you could be paying less, but they are offering more and more for less (imagine that) to keep you as a customer. 

 

Ohhhhhhhhh the camera software was a bust today :(  My co-worker was in meetings all day.  I had hoped I could catch him before his lunch.  He lives only a couple blocks away and I know he'd have gone home to get it for me.  Needless to say I will take his camera back tomorrow as he has a photo shoot planned this weekend but he will bring all I need back next week so I can play around.  Whuuu huuu

 

The pictures in today's entry are with my own camera.  I took them this evening in my backyard.  The trees in the woods behind my house are slowly changing, but you'll also notice some of the trees are bare already or dead.  I loved that red right in the middle.  I used a photo aging filter on the picture and really like the way it faded out the edges.  Might be me, but I thought it added depth. 

 

 

After dinner I was cleaning up the kitchen and caught the colors in the sky.  I had to go back out and just grab a shot.  I wish I had time to drive to the lake, or get something other then the woods in the foreground, but it would have been gone.   I loved the colors!!

 

Hope everyone is doing good.  I will let you know when I get to actually post pictures from the other camera.  LOL  like I wouldn't, eh?   Have a great evening all...

 

hugs

~d

Tags: fall, backyard, sunset, cable