Ding dong the witch is dead... to me, at least. Yesterday, I had the great honor of killing my account with Brightspeed. Gah, they suck so bad. Even the last phone contact with them sucked. The first person I talked to 'Shannon', who was barely understandable as it was, hung up on me accidentally. I called back and got 'Sergio'. He was actually harder to understand, but he got the job done and confirmed my account was cancelled effective 7/9. Then I asked about the 'final bill' and he said it was like $58+, and I was all like 'whoa whoa whoa, wait a second there'. I explained how we haven't had phone service for WEEKS and that any bill they sent wasn't going to get paid - very nicely, of course - then I said 'please make that go away for me, Sergio' and he did. $0 bill and the service is dead. Long live 1-VoiP. Of course, I don't trust Brightspeed, so I fully expect to see a bill that they will want me to pay, but I have Sergio's confirmation number and a willingness to call and go all screamin' chicken on them.
By the way, it's really nice to pick up the phone and hear a freakin' dial tone for a change.
I also killed DirectTV. That dude was also hard to understand, but only because he had his mic too close to his mouth and he was speaking too fast. He tried really hard to get me to stay. He offered me a discount. He offered me a giftcard, too. I finally ended up telling him he couldn't give me any offer that would be less than FREE. $0 bill there, too, but no refund (per their Terms of Service according to the dude). I just still have service through the 18th. (I already took all the stuff down and put it in the spare room, so nah.) And since my equipment was so old, they didn't want it back. Yay.
This new Blogger thing where they want to insert links into my blog posts because their AI told them I should is really irritating. It keeps flashing a dialogue box at me that I have to dismiss. If I want links in my posts, I'll put them there tyvm.
I found a new-to-me show on Roku - Yorkshire Vet. It combines two of my loves - Dr. Pol and All Creatures Great and Small. And I have access to all the episodes, so I can just sit down and watch one when I feel like it. For free. Woot!
The bird of the day is actually a two-fer... Rosy-faced Lovebirds. I'm not a fan of parrots, per se, but these are okay. Little cuties. Aww.
It looks like Lumpy lost her fawn. We hadn't seen it in a while, and a couple of days ago, I noticed that her milk bag is gone. It wasn't too unexpected. Lumpy's getting pretty old and that baby was really small - like premie looking. Still a sad thing. On a happier note, we have Sissy and her baby (which would be Lumpy's grandbaby) both doing well and we have another doe with twins who's been visiting.
One of my tomato plants has two flowers blooming! I helped the pollination of them along, so fingers crossed. Most of the other tomato plants have buds, so they should be blooming soon. Then we'll get some real pollination action going on. Woot.
Okay, that's probably more than enough out of me. Have a great day!
