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25247. arkymalarky - 4/5/2009 2:06:12 AM Oh, how sweet! I bet she's just a doll!
By all means, that woukd be great for them, and I'm hoping my parents will just leave this one rather than mess with moving it again. But y'all come on with or without furniture!
And I think the train missed me! I don't know if it ever did show up, come to think of it. But now that Obama's president I'm sure they're running on time! 25248. judithathome - 4/5/2009 3:12:09 PM Oh that's RIGHT! You were there...it was the train that was a no-show!
Despite your bad experience, Keoni still wants to take the train up there some time...maybe after we're retired and have lots of free time...ha!
Speaking of retiring, I doubt he does that very soon. Even though the usual mayhem of spring moving is staring out slower than usual, his company just obtained a huge loan to move to a larger facility...it's on the same block as the one now but is way bigger.
They are having to re-design the interior and have decided to go with an "open concept" office area...we were at dinner Friday night with a design engineer (retired) and he and Keoni were dicussing the psycological aspects of open concept versus closed offices...it was pretty fascinating stuff.
25249. robertjayb - 4/5/2009 6:59:08 PM Verizon promises rural broadband...(CS Monitor)
Of interest to Arky?
Verizon had hopeful news for those parts of America that broadband companies have ignored. An executive for Verizon’s mobile-phone division said Wednesday that the company plans to roll out a wireless network that will deliver Web access “throughout the entire country.”
Last year, Verizon purchased the airwaves previously used for analog television, the so-called 700 MHz spectrum.
“The licenses we bought in the 700MHz auction cover the whole US,” says Tony Melone, a Verizon Wireless V.P., in an interview with CNET at this week’s CTIA mobile trade show. “And we plan to roll out LTE [high-speed mobile service] throughout the entire country, including places where we don’t offer our [current] cell phone service today.”
25250. arkymalarky - 4/5/2009 9:25:36 PM Absolutely, Robert! Especially since they just bought Alltel, the only carrier besides ATT that we can get svc from out here. Thanks!! 25251. arkymalarky - 4/5/2009 9:27:22 PM Wonder how soon they'll get it going. 25252. judithathome - 4/6/2009 12:34:24 PM I don't know but we have been using Verizon for cell phones and have NEVER had a problem with them. I think Keoni's phone might have "dropped out" less that 10 times in all the time he's had it...usually he is on the road out in the outlying areas when that happens...not enough to notice, really, and after a mile or two, it's picked up again.
I've never had my cell lose service at all...unless I've forgotten to charge it. 25253. arkymalarky - 4/6/2009 6:54:33 PM They bought Alltel, which we'd been happy with, but our phones are att now. I wonder if we could switch them over if this goes through? 25254. arkymalarky - 4/6/2009 10:16:42 PM Ok. I told my kids about Verizon today and one said they're planning oin adding a lot of towers in the area in the next two months. 25255. arkymalarky - 4/7/2009 4:03:06 AM Hey, our old pal Spuds is getting BIG props in Dailykos today! 25256. judithathome - 4/7/2009 2:06:56 PM I saw him on a crime show last week...speaking as an expert on something, not as a criminal...ha! 25257. judithathome - 4/7/2009 2:09:40 PM Okay...I looked and didn't see it...where is he on Daily Kos? 25258. wabbit - 4/7/2009 4:26:47 PM Difference isn't a threat 25259. wabbit - 4/7/2009 4:27:22 PM I'll repost that link in Politics. 25260. judithathome - 4/7/2009 5:38:15 PM Thnx! 25261. alistairconnor - 4/18/2009 9:16:32 PM Just back from a week tootling around the Low Countries in the van and on bicycles... have boring photos of canals and tulips to prove it...
This was the first holiday my girlfriend and I have managed together, in nearly two years of tumultuous co-existence. Friends predicted that if we came back together, we would be together for life. Well guess what. We're in love. 25262. judithathome - 4/19/2009 12:53:48 AM Congrats! I can highly recommend that state! Still in it after 27+ years. 25263. arkymalarky - 4/25/2009 5:40:31 PM On free wifi at a great cafe in Hot Springs. Can't wait until Obama gets us decent internet out in the country. I'm disgusted that Starbuck's is charging for wifi now, and so is McDonald's. Now it's back to the only reason for driving to town being WalMart. 25264. alistairConnor - 4/25/2009 8:54:51 PM A wee fee for wifi. The end of the golden age. 25265. Ms. No - 4/25/2009 9:43:21 PM It's not a wee fee at all. It's $9.95 for the day --- but who spends the whole day at Starbucks? It's their deal with T-Mobile. And even if you did spend the whole day there, I get 30 days a month for $35. That's just over a dollar a day.
Yet another reason to avoid Starbucks. I've never been rabidly anti-Starbucks, but I live in a city that still has a lot of independent coffee houses and there's no reason not to go to them instead. AND they provide free wifi were I inclined to use it. 25266. anomie - 4/25/2009 9:43:53 PM Congrats AC. And the van didn't break down or anything? Nice trip.
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