Tv, no Tv, Tv

June 22 – I got up at 8 and dressed so I’d be ready in the event Directv was at the beginning of the appointment instead of at the end.  Luckily I was ready as the very rude technician arrived about 9.  He had to replace the SWM part and said not to leave it in the rain.  He read us the riot act about all the things that were not up to code like the cable running on top of the ground and said he’d never get all 3 satellites due to the spring growth of the trees interfering with the signal.  He was just a jerk from the beginning because if he didn’t get us at over 90 on all the satellite readings he wouldn’t get paid.  He pointed out a tree that would need cut down behind our dish that had the most branches in front of it.  So when he left we had most of our channels and we were satisfied.  He also got snippy with our neighbor when he just asked a question, so since we are only here til the 27^th, it was OK.

Our neighbor, being the super nice guy he is, wanted to cut the tree down in hopes of getting us a better signal.  Well, his wife was holding the tree with rope and it got away from her and we were watching TV when the signal went out.  I hoped it was only the branch he was cutting and it fell in front of the dish, but no, as his luck and our luck would have it, the whole tree fell on our dish and bent it up.  They were sick over it!  I felt way worse for them than us as they were trying to do us a good deed.  They were so upset and offered to buy us a new dish and then he tried to hook up their dish he was working on to better their signal and we told them just to not worry about it. 

 

We went in to work at 2 and that was disappointing as the snack vendor and the coke vendor neither one had come.  There was a note from Patty but she never addressed our questions about supplies, but she did get the safe open, the battery was dead.  Bill called the snack vendor and left a message and I called the coke people and they said an order was placed this morning but the delivery wasn’t until Monday.  A lot of good that’s going to do over the weekend.  We have no diet coke or orange, and only about 10 cokes left.  They will either drink sprite, Mr. Pibb, water or tea!  This is really embarrassing as we’re the ones the public sees and we have so little to sell and they all ask about ice cream!  On top of that I went to check the soda machine, thinking maybe he stocked it, and the service tech had come, of course he didn’t call ahead as I had asked so I could tell him all the issues.  He left a service tag in it that only addressed the bill feeder and it appears he replaced it and did some changes to the feeding of the drinks, so who knows!

We met 2 nice families, one from NJ and one from FL.  They come here every year.  The FL family is from PA so this is a stop for them on their way home after visiting family.  The NJ family now brings their grandchildren after coming for 15 years when they brought their children.  It’s nice to meet people who have come here so long and listen to what has changed over the years.

One of our almost daily visitors

After dinner Randy and Anita came over and he hooked our TV up to his mobile satellite and we were able to get some channels.  We told him it wasn’t necessary but he really wanted us to have some TV.  I think he made an appointment for Directv to come out and he’s hoping to get a new dish that he’ll give to us.  We told him it wasn’t necessary but I think if the tech comes before Monday we may end up with a replacement dish.  So we watched a bit of TV and didn’t stay up too late as we have an all day trip to Charlottesville tomorrow.