Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. Don’t stop. artist for Disney

Last week, a crew from TechTV came to our house and spent the evening interviewing and video taping our family. They had origionally phoned before Christmas but they didn’t have a crew in the area to get here for ChristmasCam. Instead, they came last week to talk to the family who has been “on the web” for eight years.
The oddity is that we have had cams in our house for years and the kids have grown up with them. It started with ChristmasCam eight years ago and the cams have just stayed around ever since. That and being a “connected family”. We have one room with all of our computers – one for each member of the family – and we spend more time “together” there than anywhere else in the house. It is truly our “family room”. Anyway, you will be able to find our TechTV interview on the air tonight at 8pm and 11pm EST and many times thereafter.

Last week our second phone line failed – DSL still worked but there was no dialtone. I spent a few days unplugging phones until Sunday when I finally crouched in the rain at the access box trying all the lines to discover that there was no dialtone coming into the house. So, I phone Qwest for service. They have received a few sanctions for bad service so I was apprehensive. I phoned Sunday, on hold for 5 minutes, they ran a “line check” and said a service person would be out the next day. That’s monday – President’s Day!! The next day, the service fellow shows up and finds that the line and it’s associated lines are shorted – “Must be in a puddle somewhere”. He’ll have to call the “cable crew” to fix it. “Oh, great”, I think, “there’s another week”. No, they came out that same afternoon!! The bottom line is that Qwest fixed the phone in one day with no hassle. Those big, bad telecommunication companies can do things right every now and then.

I have installed MovableType and I will be adding journals, blogs and other effulent from my mind. This is the first entry and things will only get better from here.