Insanely Hot!
This is the temperature at our house RIGHT NOW!!!
My breakfast helper
Shadow is a fantastic helper in the kitchen.
Dot and Maggie
Dot and Maggie are helping clean cages.
Good God it’s HOT!
This is the temperature at out house, RIGHT NOW, as measured by our weather station:
June 2009 Python Meetup
The June 2009 Houston Python Meetup is at 19:00 tonight at the Stag’s Head Pub. I’m giving a short presentation on PyQt. Meeting notes are available here.
COMCAST is too damned Expensive!
I hate monopolies, especially when they rip you off so blatantly. Ever since those assholes at Comcast bought out Time-Warner in the Houston market, my monthly cable bill has gone up for the exact same services. Here is a breakdown:
LDG Financial Services
I have been getting strange “hang up” calls for about a month or so now. Today I called the number back (813-283-0568). Found out it was some company called “LDG Financial Services.”
I gave them my number and asked why they kept calling me. They looked up my record and said they were a collection agency and that I owed Reliant Energy $22.94. I thought that was interesting since I have never used that company. We have been with Green Mountain Energy for many years.
We finally figured out it was for my son from when he lived at the apartments on FM 1960. Apparently there had been some small leftover charge from when his electric service had been cancelled when he went into the Army.
Interestingly, I had never received notification of that amount. The person I spoke with at LDG (Tristan) couldn’t tell me anything.
I called Reliant Energy (713-207-7777). I spoke with Evette. I happened to have Gordy Jr.’s account information on my computer and she was able to verify this small remaining balance.
I went ahead and paid it for him and asked her why I was not notified. She looked up the forwarding address on the account and it was wrong.
This *better* not cause any kind of blip on Gordy Jr.’s credit or mine.
A/C Maintenance and Hootie
Well it’s that time of year again when Houston is just going to continue to get hotter for a while. That reminded me that I should schedule the regular A/C maintenance check. I contacted Airtronics (281-855-8714) and spoke with Courtney. She was very nice. She scheduled a technician to come out to the house today between 10:00 and 12:00. I had them call me on my mobile phone when the tech was on his way since our office is so close to the house.
The fellow to came out was named Israel. He’s young, but seemed competent. The system checked out OK. Freon levels were good. I told him that it seemed like the compressor made more noise than it should when starting. He checked the current draw of the compressor, which was fine. He installed a “hard start kit” for $225.00. I had to pay that out of pocket, but he told me that if it ever failed it would be covered by the American Home Shield warranty.
Here is Isreal checking the compressor:
A little while later I got a call from Hootie. She will be working for Apple Computer doing iPhone tech support. How cool is that??