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Nov. 15th, 2017 01:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichYesterday I proved that I have absolutely no idea how to carve a bone-in ham except to just keep slicing off sides of the ham until it is mostly a bone with some tiny bits sticking to it. I now have enough of the off-cuts and bone to prepare for a big pot of ham & bean soup. And, I began thawing out a roast destined to be cubed and turned into beef noodle soup. Mostly to use up all the stock I froze each time I made a pot roast.
So what does my husband want for dinner tomorrow? Sauerkraut and Brats.
I spent 3 hours on the phone after a half-hour on their website wrangling with Nextel/Sprint and tentatively believe that our problems with our plan & bill may be resolved. Maybe. I'll know when I get next month's bill. If it is resolved, it is going to be better than what we've got now. We gave up unlimited data when we bought our new phones (and didn't know it) and ended up with four phone lines between the two of us (and didn't know it) and got locked into a 4G data plan that we had to pay extra for - about $80 above our previous monthly bills. Well sort of, in that extra charges were tacked on rather hit-or-miss so I could never be sure of what I'd be paying each month. That should all be over and the rep got us back on unlimited data and found a way to reduce the charges for the two extra phone lines which were apparently a requirement to get our two new phones and a tablet. Since we have to keep the tablet's phone line open until the payment plan is ended, my husband now has unlimited data on it. For that he is thrilled. Seven months from now we'll be done paying for the new equipment and our bill will go down by $75, finally reaching the level that the lying local sales rep told us was our 'new monthly charge'.
The guy on the phone suggested that the next time we need new equipment we should skip the local store (he indicated that while my complaint will be filed he doesn't know - nor should he tell me if he did - when the local manager and is used-car-dealer sales style will be changed. Meaning when the manager gets fired and the sales guys have to be retrained.)
Slowly I am reclaiming the home administrative tasks that have been in abeyance since I swung into depression. It feels good. I even finally got the checking account squared away with three month's worth of missing entries added in and the account balanced. And now without the looming mess over my head it is easy again to maintain it.
So what does my husband want for dinner tomorrow? Sauerkraut and Brats.
I spent 3 hours on the phone after a half-hour on their website wrangling with Nextel/Sprint and tentatively believe that our problems with our plan & bill may be resolved. Maybe. I'll know when I get next month's bill. If it is resolved, it is going to be better than what we've got now. We gave up unlimited data when we bought our new phones (and didn't know it) and ended up with four phone lines between the two of us (and didn't know it) and got locked into a 4G data plan that we had to pay extra for - about $80 above our previous monthly bills. Well sort of, in that extra charges were tacked on rather hit-or-miss so I could never be sure of what I'd be paying each month. That should all be over and the rep got us back on unlimited data and found a way to reduce the charges for the two extra phone lines which were apparently a requirement to get our two new phones and a tablet. Since we have to keep the tablet's phone line open until the payment plan is ended, my husband now has unlimited data on it. For that he is thrilled. Seven months from now we'll be done paying for the new equipment and our bill will go down by $75, finally reaching the level that the lying local sales rep told us was our 'new monthly charge'.
The guy on the phone suggested that the next time we need new equipment we should skip the local store (he indicated that while my complaint will be filed he doesn't know - nor should he tell me if he did - when the local manager and is used-car-dealer sales style will be changed. Meaning when the manager gets fired and the sales guys have to be retrained.)
Slowly I am reclaiming the home administrative tasks that have been in abeyance since I swung into depression. It feels good. I even finally got the checking account squared away with three month's worth of missing entries added in and the account balanced. And now without the looming mess over my head it is easy again to maintain it.
