L
et me tell you a story.
A little over six weeks ago Hurricane Ida blew through. While her rainfall didn’t do too much in my neighborhood, 155 mph winds did.
They blew down almost every kind of cable and power source. Our power company, Entergy, did the best the they could and had us repowered in about two weeks. Cox followed right behind. They all picked up their damaged goods and cleaned up their messes.
Along comes AT&T. They got their service repaired but picked up nothing. The foreman flat out lied and said they would pick it up the next day.
Nope.
Now comes my calls to their corporate office. Do you know how hard it is to reach an actual human being at AT&T? I lied my way through their switchboard when I finally reached a maintenance and repair division of business accounts.
I reckoned I was trying to get a business account — AT&T’s — looked after. Heh. They said the problem would be taken care of within a couple of days.
Nope.
Yesterday I called The District Attorney of Orleans Parish and filed a criminal complaint. At their suggestion I also filed a civil suit.
Since their corporate headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas, and my attorney’s office is also located there, I filed in Dallas County, Texas.
Nobody wants to go to court there.
I doubt that I’ll recover the ten million dollars in damages I am asking for, but I’ll finally get their attention.
Dumbasses.
All they had to do was finish their job.
L
et me tell you another story. A better one.
I took a stroll in a place that I rarely do.
Look what I found. I found autumn in the pine needles and mud.
That made me happy because we are drifting between the moment of early fall and real fall.
This is when I get really impatient. It’s not cool and there aren’t enough red leaves. t’ll get here soon enough, but until then…
Grumble, grumble, toil and trouble.
The picture is easy. Expose properly and there is no work in post production.to speak of.
There is an interesting thing happening with the block design. Every time I try to do some actual design, the system messes with me so I eventually give up and go back to this kind of page layout.
It’s boring, but at least I can do it.
It’s clean and minimalistic.
That’s good.
For now.
STORYTELLER 
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