On Monday after pulling an all-night shift of making posts on facebook I had a lot of things on my agenda to do today. First thing I received a call from Sara of Cal-Org about my modem being replaced because of Tulelake on Thanksgiving and on Saturday having a power outage.
My modem was having problems where before over the last few months before the power outage it would go offline. So the technician at the time a few months ago mentioned for me to unplug it from the power strip. He suggested plugging the modem directly into the wall socket. So I did. Then, it worked fine for a while and low and behold it was doing the same thing again that it had before, by going off and on.
After the second power outage last week when the power came back on everything seemed fine. Except that there was no DSL connection. The DSL was not coming online. So I called Cal-Org Support Information at 800-218-6118 to let them know I was having a problem and I was told everything looked fine on their end. I said OK.
Then, I got to thinking maybe the power was back on in Tulelake, but not in Dorris, where the DSL might get its power from for this area. So, I called Pacific Power and asked them if they could tell me if the power was on in Dorris. I was then told she could not tell without having a physical address to verify it. Well, I didn’t have one to give her.
So, I called Cal-Org back and asked them and they suggested this time I wait a few hours and see if it comes back on or not in Tulelake since I was having past problems with my modem. I said OK that I would do that as they suggested. I mentioned I would call back one way or the other to let them know if I was still having a problem or if the DSL was back online. I had all the green lights, except for the DSL Internet connection once again.
And sure enough in a few hours, it came back online. So, I called Cal-Org back to let them know I was back online like I said I was going to do, one way or the other. When I called back the recording while you wait was saying "that due to the power outage that some people may not have DSL in their area."
The tech's name was Sam. I then gave Sam my ticket number so he could pull up my file to have an idea what has been going on with my account and the modem problems I was having before. Sam had me do a few things to check on the speed of my modem by going to speedof.me to do a test of the modem speed and few others things we did to test the problem with the modem. When we were through going through the tests, Sam wanted me to do. Sam mentioned that he had put in an order for the repair technicians, and while I was on the phone with him for them to do a test on my account in the morning and for me to also contact Cal-Org on Monday to see if they could get me a new modem but in the meantime he said he would see about doing it from his end. But I didn’t have to call Cal-Org first thing Monday morning because Sara had already done that first.
Sara was on the phone letting me know that she had my modem ready to be picked up. I was caught off guard at first because I hadn’t even thought about the modem yet. In fact, it was the last thing on my mind when Sara called me. I was in the middle of doing other things. I was on a roll? LOL!
It might have been early for some people but it was late for me. As I had been sharing links most of the night on my facebook page(s). It is not so much what I share, as it is to do my best to give people choices of things to think about if they take the time to read about it and then decided. That’s all. Not to push my point of view. Yes, I do make a comment sometimes but most of the time I just send the shared link. Unless I am absolutely not sure what’s it all about, I don’t share it. But when I do, more than likely I have read it before I send it, to make sure it’s not outdated information. I will never convince anyone but I can at least give him or her a source to at least think about it from another point of view, that they may have never thought about before.
While on the phone with Sara, Sara said I could pick it up anytime I was ready too. I said OK, I would walk over there in a little while and pick it up and exchange it for the old one in a couple hours. Sara mentioned I needed to exchange the new modem for the old one.
Then, I got to thinking I wanted to go by the Library, as there was something I wanted to talk to Lorraine Fine about, the Librarian and the former Tulelake Treasure, who resigned not too long ago for personal reasons. We now have Carla Perez as the new appointed Treasure, until the next special election, along with the next council member seat that has been left vacate until that time. Due to Jeniffer Engle resigning also for personal reasons. So, now the city council only has 4 members. The Mayor Randy Darrow and council members Dar Carroll, Tom Cordonier and Jerry King are all that are left on the council with one seat vacant until the next special election. The city council decided to wait until the special election, instead of appointing a new council member.
With the library not opening until after 1 PM I figured I could kill two birds with one stone, so to speak as the saying goes. The library is only open from 1 PM to 6 PM Monday-Wednesday and yes it was Monday and I could go, but not until after 1 PM. I decided to call Sara back and let her know of my changes of plans, so that she would not be expecting me to show up and then not show up at the time I said I was going to do it. I am like that, I think we all are to some extent. I phoned Sara back and informed her my change of plans. She said, “no problem, James. Thanks for calling and letting me know.”
After hanging up the phone another thought occurred to me I had time enough to go to the Honker Family Resource Center FRC for lunch for the first time since Iva Rogers and Alice Morris had turned over the responsibility of the all-new lunch program to Sara Ramirez. I figured I had time to go by and have lunch and check it out first, then after lunch go and pick up the new modem and stop by and see Lorraine Fine, so I could find some of the answers to the questions I had for her.
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