Verizon Frustrations and Raging Jays

Could this be PJ?

A quiet day again today, which is just fine with us.  The Stellar's Jays seem to be getting even bolder, and have begun to fly up to the window and let us know they are ready to be fed (again and again).  We give them peanuts and they cram as many in their beaks as they can hold, and then go hide them in the garden and forest.  We have come upon some of them in our gardening.  Our friend Jim Hauck, who feeds them out of his hand says that they have a good memory of where they have hidden them so they can dig them up when they don't have suckers like us to feed them.

We have seen as many as a dozen on the deck at one time, and many are probably siblings as they can fledge quite a few in one nest and even have a second clutch of eggs if food (read "peanuts") are plentiful.  So Neil tried some hand feeding today and there is one who is bolder and more aggressive than all the others who will come right up and take a peanut out of your hand, and drive off others who try.  So we wait until he goes to hide his nuts and try the others.

 Neil spent what seemed like several hours today dealing with the voice mail and web parts of Verizon wireless, trying to set up automatic payments for our Verizon MiFi wireless internet card.  Believe it or not, it took four separate calls and being disconnected twice before the problem was solved.  Part of it was the fault of their website not working properly.  Maybe I should not complaint too much, at least they spoke English well and I think that they lived in America (but I could be wrong).  Anyway the problem got solved.

Sad news today that Steve Jobs, of Apple Computer has died at the age of 56.  Neil is a big Apple fan and really enjoys the iPhones, iTouch, iPods and the Macintosh computer that he had years ago.  Someday, he will probably spring for an iPad and maybe a Mac laptop, but not until after our move south.  Still no news on that front, unfortunately.

Be Well,

Neil and Pamela