Nadezhda Tolokonnikova from the Russian performance artist’s, Pussy Riot, says, “We are happy because we brought the revolution closer!” I’m happy for that. Nothing scarier than Russia’s new alliance between between church and state.
We had the coffee all set to go. Just push the button and head downtown to wait in line for the ticket office open so we could buy tickets to the US Women’s soccer game with Costa Rica. But the headlines on the morning paper said the ticket sale would be delayed. Eleven thousand were already sold to season ticket holders. Big bummer but nothing compared to our friend, Bill’s situation.
We took him over to the Wilmot Cancer Center for his daily dose of radiation, a tactic intended to shrink the tumors in his brain that spread from his lung cancer. We found him in good spirits, a better man than I imagine I would be in his spot.
On to the days’ other pressing issues. My father got a new modem from Time Warner and when the service guy left my dad was unable send or receive email on his desktop or iPad. All his settings were right. Nothing had changed on his end. I was stumped. I tried collecting email through the browser at the Roadrunner site and as soon as I typed in my father’s email address it autofilled with “@roadrunner.com” rather than “@rochester.rr.com.” This required a call to Time Warner where a technician determined that the serviceman had never set-up the modem to go to the Rochester server.
My parents switched their land line to Time Warner about a year ago so the incoming caller is displayed on their tv and all but they never set up the feature to route call waiting calls to Time Warners answering service so when they are on the phone and I try to call them it just rings and rings. People that know them are familiar with my father’s message on his home answering machine and they have learned that if the phone keeps ringing it just means they are on the line. But people who don’t know them, like the the garage door repair man, just assume their phone does not work. So we looked on Time Warner’s site for the old fashioned option of “engaging a busy tone.” What a concept.
This was not easy. i had to call Time Warner again and a women who was clearly reading instructions from a monitor talked me through setting up an account in my father’s name and then accessing a control panel were I could “turn off call-waiting” even thought they had never set it up and then “engage busy signal” and hit “Save.”
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