Another Day

We started the day by going to Randy Dougherty's "Wacky Wednesday" A-2 dance. We stopped by the store on the way home, then ate lunch. We watched a Mystery episode we had recorded last year and at 5:00 p.m. went to the regular Wednesday margarita gathering at the clubhouse and enjoyed frozen margaritas and appetizers everyone had brought to share. We took meatballs in spaghetti sauce. Besides the usual chips and deviled eggs, etc., there was a pan of pumpkin dessert--an early taste of Thanksgiving. Then we helped set up the room for the Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

The highlight of the evening is that our DirecTV receiver decided to quit working. We tried all the troubleshooting tips several times and nothing worked. We ended up pulling out all the connections and hooking the receiver directly to the TV (usually it goes through the TIVO). This isn't easy, since the TIVO, video distribution box, and DirecTV receiver are in a small cabinet space above the TV, with Velcro and straps to hold them secure when we travel, plus the wires are tangled and too short to pull everything out and get a clear view of the connections . . . Arghh! Finally Ken ended up spending a long time on the phone to tech support, finally escalating to a supervisor who agreed to send a replacement receiver. Meanwhile we have the park cable, which is pretty basic.