And the German Shepard is a Male!

I swiped this from a Face Book Friend. Lori, from Waxahachie, Texas. Been there. More than once. Ballast Trains.

She had this up on her wall at FB. It was too cool to pass up! I did ask her for permission, OK! She said she swiped it herself. Texas girls, gotta love ‘em!

I am now the owner of a 37 inch LCD Flat Screen TV. It is nice. The old tube set finally gave it up. Coupled with our newly acquired satellite service, pretty cool stuff. The missus has had a 32 inch flat screen for the bedroom since we were still in Wichita.

The Kings and Ducks games are very nice to watch, indeed.

We went with the satellite service due to our local cable company not being worth **** on a boar hog and ***** on a priest. You get the picture I made a funny!!!!!!!!!!!

Been sorta keeping up on the scumbag currently residing at 1600 PA Ave. in DC. What a worthless piece of ****! Along with the Wicked Witch of The West and the “Gambler” from Searchlight we are in deep doo-doo if their plans go through. I really am having a hard time with the statement from the Bay Area Queen that we “need to pass the bill to find out what is in it” Rope, Tree, Nancy……Some assembly required. And the TOTUS going off on fishing as it is a bad thing. Lousy bastard anyway! I really wonder if most folks realized what he really was when they voted his sorry, commie a** into office along with all those districts across the country that thought a minion of obammy-mammy was the best choice to represent them in the congress. Sort of gives credence to a personal little theory of mine. That being………the average American couldn’t pour piss from a boot with the directions written on the heel. Just sayin’ ya know.

Rant over.

And all intelligent, conservative and patriotic bloggers should have Pinch and Lex on their blogroll!

ORPO Sends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It may be a short trip to the Sears and Blowback tomorrow down there in Palmdale and the Antelope Valley Mall.

Who knows? The Shadow. I heard he took the weekend off and went to Lake Arrowhead.

And tomorrow somewhere between 0800 and 1200, the Direct TV guy will show up and the Casa De Sharon y Glenn will be watching satellite TV. OMG!I have finally caught up with the 21st Century.

As for the men’s side, I figured the Russians would be in the semis/medal round. I blew that one didn’t I? Hat’s off to Buck. He picked them to be eliminated. And I totally agree with him on Mike Milbury. What a P.I.T.A. He would be better off somewhere in the juniors on the Canadian Prairies that I lived on as a kid.

And as for NBC, what was the IOC thinking, anyway? But the one bright spot was Doc Emerick on the play by play. Remember, I grew up on Danny Galavan and Howie Meeker. That is saying something, mmm’kayyyy?!?!?! Doc has a love for the game.

The on ice celebration by the Canadian Women’s team was a blast! The IOC and the COC have no clue do they? Just Canadian Girls having a good time. First hand experience with that, eh. The IOC and it’s subsidiaries need to grow up and deal with things as they happen. They should read a wonderful book by Dan Jenkins. “Life it’s Own Self” It fits that ‘get a grip” attitude. It is the current attitude by the “enlightened ones” that a good old fashioned victory party is some how inappropriate. Rat Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still in form, ain’t I?

What happened was that I was on one of their nationwide plans and more than 50% of the minutes used were on another network than theirs.  Apparently having Cindy, Kyleigh, and Cindy’s mom on the plan in Utah was the source of this trouble.  I came to find in that letter that this is a situation which happens with less than 1% of AT&T’s customers, but which violates some of the terms of the plan.

In such cases, the letter continued, AT&T offers three different options to their customers.  Why is it that I find myself thinking of another Jimmy Buffett reference in which Monty Hall leads a room full of costumed contestants?

Let’s continue in the theme of that great game show from years ago and see what lies behind the three doors ahead of us.

Behind door number one is the option of staying with AT&T but without the ability to use any other wireless carrier’s network.  With no discounts.  I think I’ll pass on this one.  Cindy and her mother are not going anywhere anytime soon.  Kyleigh’s in Vegas for now, but she’s going back to Utah eventually.  I’m supporting their cellphones as they’re each only $10 per month or so and Kyleigh actually pays for her service.  After all they’ve done for me over the years, it’s the least I can do.  If I were to go with this option, Cindy and her mom may as well toss their phones in the trash – they’d never have service.

Behind door number lies the option of canceling my service with AT&T and saying goodbye without any early termination fees.  This one won’t work for many of the same reasons as the previous option, but also would result in the loss of my current cellphone number.  I don’t like this one, either.

Finally, we reach door number three we find the golden option.  I can port my numbers out from AT&T to anyone I want to.  This option also carries the waiver of any early termination fees as well.  I’ve examined my options and found that my family and Cindy’s family are all now on Verizon.  This means that all those calls we make all the time would be free.  No minutes used.

But door number three gets even better!  I went down to Best Buy to investigate my options for plans and phones and found some good stuff.  All the phones we’d be interested in are free (we’ll get back to that in a moment) and if I can pull off this switch between now and the close of business on 31 December, I’ll be able to have the activation fees waived!!!

Before I get to the actual phones, I must address the financial aspects to be considered.  The early termination fees which are being waived would amount to somewhere near $900 if I remember correctly which is twice what I spent for my AK-47.  I’ve had a couple of minor grievances with AT&T in the past and was thinking a change would be good.  This helps out greatly.  Each of the phones will be free of charge, but I’ll have to pay sales tax on the full retail price of the phone which is about $25 each.  I’ll also have to ship a couple of phones to Utah.  If you’re thinking I’d rather spend the $120 or so on another firearm, ammunition, or gas for a road trip, you’d be right.  Still, there are other priorities which must be addressed from time to time.  At least I’ll be able to get by without paying the activation fees which would be $35 for the first phone and $25 for each of the other three phones which will help greatly in the quest for a Kel-Tec PF-9 and the concealed carry permit which would complete a nice self defense package.

One other thing before the phones we’ll be using on the new network which must be addressed is the topic of service plans.  Thankfully, it’s pretty simple in that it’s going to cost about the same as it would otherwise.  AT&T has rollover minutes which Verizon does not, but this isn’t too much of a concern.  As previously noted, most everyone I’m going to call already has Verizon, but there’s something nice on the Verizon plan that’s not included with AT&T which is a choice of 10 numbers on any network or even landlines which you can change via a web based portal on a daily basis and which are also free.  I could get to like this new plan.

With the financial and service plan aspects considered, we must now choose some hardware with which to navigate the wireless communication routes which span multiple states.  There are only three models which are under serious consideration – the LG enV3 (yes, that’s how they print the name of the phone) the Motorola Rival, and the Samsung Intensity.

LG enV3 cellphone - Click this image to visit the Cnet review

LG enV3 cellphone - Click this image to visit the Cnet review

I know I’m going with the LG enV3 and I think Kyleigh will as well.  It’s optimized for texting which Kyleigh does somewhere close to 2,000 times per month and which I also do on occasion.  But that’s not all it does.  It also comes equipped with a three megapixel camera (with an LED “flash” that’s better than nothing), a headphone jack, and a slot for a micro SD card.  Mine will be free as it’s to be the primary phone on the account, but if Kyleigh wants one, it’ll cost $35 on top of the sales tax and she’ll pay me back.

I’m giving LG a third strike here.  My last two phones were LG products and both of them developed problems in a few months.  I’m going to keep insurance on this one so I’ll be covered if something happens.  Strangely, Cindy’s also had the same phones and hers haven’t had the same problems.

Motorola Rival cellphone - Click this image to visit the Cnet review

Motorola Rival cellphone - Click this image to visit the Cnet review

Both Cindy and her mom want nothing more out of their cellphones than to be able to talk on the phone.  I really did look for a decent bare bones phone for them, but there was a catch – the bare bones phones cost more than the Motorola Rival.  No, I don’t get it either, but Verizon wants $30 for a basic phone while they’ll give you one of these for free.

The Rival will do everything they want a cellphone to do and the price is right.  But the review on Cnet wasn’t so good which is why there’s one more phone under consideration.

Samsung Intensity cellphone - Click this image to visit the Cnet review

Samsung Intensity cellphone - Click this image to visit the Cnet review

The camera on the Samsung Intensity may not be the greatest ever installed in a cellphone and it can’t download music over the air, but the users this phone would be going to wouldn’t care about those things.  No, they’d be thrilled that it has a normal keypad on the front of the phone instead of a manually activated touchscreen.  The review on Cnet was much better than the Motorola Rival’s as well.  The dummy phone on display didn’t inspire me, but I didn’t know what I was really looking at features wise.  This may be just the ticket for two or three users I know.

So that’s what I’ve been up to for the last few days and especially the last few hours.  I’m sorry I missed out on today’s picture, but getting this settled, at least in my mind, was rather important as I needed the peace of mind to know that we’d be OK even with the curve ball that AT&T’s thrown our way.