Home Again, Home Again...

Some people should be on no fly lists.  Not terrorists you understand, but definatly the woman in 21A on my flight home yesterday.  Firstly she was up and down like an organ stop; she had trouble with the inflight video system; she argued with the crew when they pulled it out for the safety video; she couldn't work her table; every 15 minutes she would OPEN HER BLOODY WINDOW SHADE and not close it properly.

So, here's the thing.  It's late in the year and you're flying to the USA - for most of the flight the Sun will be on the left hand side of the aircraft, aircraft wings have a nice sheen of Aluminium and reflect nicely.  21A is over the wing.  THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE out of the window.  Zip, nada, zilch.  She would then leave it open about 4 cms which was just enough for the sun to glance off the wing and into my eyes.  "Would you mind closing that properly please madam?" I would ask.  "Wah?  Is it too bright luv?"  

At one point I almost gave in to air rage.  "JUST LEAVE the bloody windows, we're over Northern Canada in f**king October, there is cloud below up, there is nothing but wing and sky to look at.  JUST LEAVE IT!"

*sigh*

I may be overwraught.

Internet and Sat Stuff

My happiness at getting DirectTV may have been short lived as the installer walked in and said, "no."  He said it nicely, but there's no view of the SE sky here, only South, South-West and means no view of their satellites.  OTOH, he gave me a number of a local guy who does Dish Network installations and he said that I had a perfect view of their Sats, even though he hated to give up work.  So, a phone call later I think I can get what I need from the Dish Network.  Cool.

I have now installed the Qwest DSL modem, which means I can cancel the MDM cable modem package.  I am already seeing a huge different between Qwest and MDM - it's a hell of a lot faster.  I'm currently downloading a file at a cracking 200KB/s which is about double the best speed I got from my cable modem.

The cost of Dish is slightly higher and they have less HD channels than Direct TV, but its still about 3 times the number of MDM.  Anyway.  All is moving forward again.

OFFS

So no Satellite TV for us.  *sigh*

Apparently I dailed the credit check.  The reason, at least the reason they thought it would be is too many credit checks in a short period of time will decrease a credit score for a short period.  Which, given we only got a score for the first time in August will cause the problem.  Either pay up front, or wait a month.

Screw them.  It's not that important. 

Other Stuff...

Finally through the banking back log.  I cannot believe how much of my time banking in the US takes up.  You guys really really really need to improve banking systems.  

Anyway, all done.  Other stuff...

( RUGBY )