Happy Farmer's Day!

Here I am. This morning was a near disaster. I was toodling along waiting for Lisa to show up. When she got here she informed me that the phone was disconnected. I checked into it and found that the same old problem with our billing was causing the problem. So I spent several hours this morning trying to get someone at ATT to cooperate with me. Good Luck!

I finally had to plunk down a little over $800.00 in order to get them to turn the phone back on. Then I spoke with another person about my problem with their failure to bundle my services back in Fall, 2006. I need to get them to adjust the billing to reflect the savings I have supposedly been getting since October. The real problem, as I explained to three or four people at ATT this morning is that they tell me they wouldn't have processed the bundling until they sent me a contract to sign. Well, I never got anything like that until late March so they have not given me any price break prior to March 28, 2007. As I told them, if I didn't know that I was supposed to get a faxed agreement I would have called them and told them so. But it was their responsibility to send me the agreement. I can't be held responsible for something their customer service person didn't handle at the time. Every time I mention this to someone they always commiserate with me. Why must we all have problems with utility companies?

That was the first half of the day. Now I am trying to work on the other things I have been trying to accomplish this day. Most of it would have been finished this morning if not for my problem with Ma Bell.

I wish all of these matters would resolve themselves. I feel like I am dangling here waiting for a cool breeze to blow through and blow the detrius away. It would be nice.

Today is the Feast Day of St. Isidore the Husbandman, the patron saint of farmers. Today is Farmer's Day in parts of England. I guess we should all get a six pack of hard cider and blow a toast in the face of a beef cow. That is what they do in Yorkshire on Christmas Eve. Bring in the new by blowing cider into the face of a cow. Odd tradition.

Well for all those farmers in my lineage, both grandfathers, and beyond, Happy Farmer's Day. I guess I even have to include Dad in that group. It would be nice if the farmers could make a good living without making the cost of food more expensive. Its a losing proposition any way you look at it.