Crazy Day

The day started innocently enough yesterday. We did some errands in town and came back to wait for a couple FedEx deliveries. Our paychecks were being sent overnight to us from Big Pine Key, and I was suppose to get a new 4G Mobile Internet device from Verizon that is a replacement for my "new" MIFI, which has been giving us problems. Verizon, on the one hand, deserves credit for offering a free upgrade to this new device, but on the other hand, they have completely botched the delivery. The last word I had on Tuesday was that it was being sent to our location here in Ormond Beach, and was suppose to arrive yesterday. Instead, I received an email from them stating that the device couldn't ship until I accept the terms and conditions, via phone. Sheesh! They want to ship it now, but it will not arrive here until Monday - while we are in Savannah GA. Needless to say, that won't work. We're still trying to resolve the delivery issue. The other disappointment is that Josie's check was sent, but mine, for some reason, was sent later to the office and is a day behind hers to be forwarded to this location. You have to wonder how that can happen, but knowing how messed up the company is, we're not surprised.

We went to Josie's sister's house in the afternoon and had a great time visiting with them and having dinner. They are planning to come visit us today for lunch, and then they leave for Puerto Rico on Tuesday next week. Unfortunately, I forgot to take the camera yesterday so there are no shots of our nice visit with them. Our minds were somewhere else following the Verizon fiasco and we never thought about the camera when we left. We'll get some photos today during their visit.

The weather has also changed from the consistent weather we had in the Keys. Today it is raining and the temperature range yesterday was a high of 94 and a low of 72. That's a much larger variance than we've had during the last month. Just so we don't get any tornado warnings. They have been plentiful this Spring, and we are concerned about traveling through some of the high tornado risk areas.

Our plan for visiting the Kennedy Space Center changed - not only as a result of the distance, but with this weather, the launch may be postponed. We'll definitely plan to visit there on the next trip to this area. We are told that we can still see the launch from here if it happens on schedule.

It already has been a long morning for us. Josie got up at 4 AM to watch the Royal Wedding, and I followed at about 5:30. It was an interesting event to watch, and we hope that this marriage is better than the one between Charles and Diana. Our bet is that it will be much better.

Today is our final full day here, so we'll try to make the most of it...