Another post from sunny FL
May. 1st, 2008 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kumir_k9Only this time, it really is quite sunny and warm with a very mild breeze. I'm typing this from out on a sunny patio by the pool. This is the life.
Remember Shirley, our waitress from last vacation at the Denny's across the street from our condo (http://kumir-k9.livejournal.com/2007/04/28/)? Monique and I remember her well but decided to risk going to Denny's again anyway on the one year anniversary of that debacle. This time we had a very pleasant gentleman as a waiter. The amusing part was when I was paying my bill and the cashier asked the typical friendly questions about the food and then asked, "And how was your service?". I said, "He was excellent, much better than last year when we were here and we had Shirley as a waitress." It was funny. She grimaced and apologized. I asked her if Shirley was still with them and she told me that Shirley had gone and opened a cleaning service. Good luck to her and good riddance.
Internet connectivity has been an interesting issue. We have it sporadically at some places in our unit. Down by the pool it's pretty solid, except for yesterday afternoon when it got windy. The front desk has been less than helpful in this regard. The first time I called about problems, they told me that several guests had already reported intermittant connectivity and that they had called a tech. Now I of all people shouldn't have let a vague answer like that go by and assume anything at all. I called them the second day when the same issue was occurring only to find out that guests had been reporting this issue for months and that they were looking at replacing their system entirely and that it could be weeks before this issue was resolved. I guess I'll just have to keep working and IMing and doing LJ updates from the poolside. Oh, the tragedy. ;-)
Oh yeah, yesterday when the wind kicked up and the network locked up and wouldn't let us back in, I went in to the front desk to talk to them about it. We talked briefly about wireless access points and how many were around the grounds and why it might be locked up. They told me it was down because of the wind. I told them that I do tech support for a living and even *I* wouldn't use that lame an excuse to get rid of my users. They said it's what *their* techs had told them. I was highly amused.
Other than that, we've been reading, watching West Wing and sleeping in (if you call 7:00 sleeping in, which I do). Not much else to report. Vacation is going along wonderfully. Take care all. I'm going to go catch up on LJs. I think I still owe some of you answers.
Remember Shirley, our waitress from last vacation at the Denny's across the street from our condo (http://kumir-k9.livejournal.com/2007/04/28/)? Monique and I remember her well but decided to risk going to Denny's again anyway on the one year anniversary of that debacle. This time we had a very pleasant gentleman as a waiter. The amusing part was when I was paying my bill and the cashier asked the typical friendly questions about the food and then asked, "And how was your service?". I said, "He was excellent, much better than last year when we were here and we had Shirley as a waitress." It was funny. She grimaced and apologized. I asked her if Shirley was still with them and she told me that Shirley had gone and opened a cleaning service. Good luck to her and good riddance.
Internet connectivity has been an interesting issue. We have it sporadically at some places in our unit. Down by the pool it's pretty solid, except for yesterday afternoon when it got windy. The front desk has been less than helpful in this regard. The first time I called about problems, they told me that several guests had already reported intermittant connectivity and that they had called a tech. Now I of all people shouldn't have let a vague answer like that go by and assume anything at all. I called them the second day when the same issue was occurring only to find out that guests had been reporting this issue for months and that they were looking at replacing their system entirely and that it could be weeks before this issue was resolved. I guess I'll just have to keep working and IMing and doing LJ updates from the poolside. Oh, the tragedy. ;-)
Oh yeah, yesterday when the wind kicked up and the network locked up and wouldn't let us back in, I went in to the front desk to talk to them about it. We talked briefly about wireless access points and how many were around the grounds and why it might be locked up. They told me it was down because of the wind. I told them that I do tech support for a living and even *I* wouldn't use that lame an excuse to get rid of my users. They said it's what *their* techs had told them. I was highly amused.
Other than that, we've been reading, watching West Wing and sleeping in (if you call 7:00 sleeping in, which I do). Not much else to report. Vacation is going along wonderfully. Take care all. I'm going to go catch up on LJs. I think I still owe some of you answers.
