Last Day of January

Today is the last day of January. We're counting down the time until we move into our new home. Our target arrival date at New Horizons in Junction City is April 17. Let's see--that's 77 days from now. We're expecting to get the technical drawings this week. We'll need to look them over carefully to be sure that everything is the way we ordered it and expected it to be. Then our build can begin.

Cooking dinner tonight, I was working with poblano peppers. The recipe called for first charring them under the broiler and then peeling and chopping them. So far so good--only I neglected to wear gloves. These poblanos were HOT! The fingers on my right hand, especially the index finger, feel like they've been burned. I've been sitting around soaking my hand in ice water, which relieves the pain. Darn peppers! The recipe came out quite good, and I plan to make it again, but next time I'll remember to put on some latex gloves first!

We spent quite a bit of time today trying to figure out how to get our DirecTV service upgraded to HD with a DVR. We've ordered a Winegard Travel'r DirecTV dish on the roof of the new Majestic. It supports HD programming, which we have not had. Our VuQube 1000 is SD (standard definition). You'd think that DirecTV would be eager to help us upgrade our service, but instead they put roadblocks in our way. The customer service rep I spoke with today said that they would only come to our "service address" to install the new HD DVR. Our service address is Ed's house, which is certainly not where our RV will be.

They could not just ship it to us. They absolutely do not go to campgrounds to install DirecTV service (this despite the fact that our original service was installed at Lake Park campground in Lewisville!) We tried calling local DirecTV installers, but it's actually impossible to talk to one of them unless you want to start new DirecTV service. I finally pressed the number for "new service" just to get through to someone. That was useless. It only led to being transferred to DirecTV!

We're planning to request installation of the HD DRV while we're visiting Ed and Julie. When the installer shows up at Ed's, we'll try to get them to just hand us the receiver. Nothing is ever simple.