Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[greybeard]

That surprises me about HughesNet (which you mentioned a while back). We just signed up recently & nothing was said about service area caps.

OMG! 100-150 GB??? I can't imaging either having or using that much data! Wow!

If you go with Verizon's JetPak, remember it's a 2 year contract. You might be able to afford more than I can for your data. We were trying to keep it down to 6GB. Even at that our monthly bill was running around $140, with all the misc. charges.

After being used to 100+ GB of data, I suspect you are going to be going through data withdrawal when you get to TX!

Comparing hughesnet vs verizon is apples to oranges, but we pay $139/mo total for 2 phones, voice, text, up to 5 devices and get 18GB/month. (we bought the jet pack outright--arond $60 if I remember right) Our bill actually went down $40 when we upgraded from 10GB to 18GB.

 

[Devonviolet]

Comparing hughesnet vs verizon is apples to oranges, but we pay $139/mo total for 2 phones, voice, text, up to 5 devices and get 18GB/month. (we bought the jet pack outright--arond $60 if I remember right) Our bill actually went down $40 when we upgraded from 10GB to 18GB.

That's crazy! When we were trying 18GB (not for long , mind you!) our monthly bill was something like $220, with all the same features that you mentioned. We just couldn't afford that much.

We bought our JetPak ($100+) & still had to pay $10/mo, for the privelege of using OUR JetPak!

Hey, Joe! It just occurred to me. We can't use the JetPak anymore. If you do sign up with Verizon, ask them if you can use our JetPak. If you can, it's yours for the taking!

 

[Latestarter]

Ideally, peoples will be adding additional hardware out there in the near future which will open capacity, and since AT&T supposedly owns the service rights to the area, I wonder how much complaining to the FCC would be required for them to add infrastructure to support "their" area? If I could do DirecTV and internet with AT&T, the internet would be unlimited. Huges was capped. Verizon wasn't even offering 18 gig to me when we talked. and I don't want bundled anything, I just want internet.

Thanks @Devonviolet ... I'm not even going to try to get all that set up from here. I'll wait till I'm down there to deal with it. I have enough other stuff on my plate right now. I will buy a laptop and can always use the library for a high speed connection, or use any of the many free Wifi hotspots at eateries and such.

 

[Baymule]

If you want to feel better about your lender/buyer woes, just go back and read my buying/moving fiascos. Then you will be proud of the jerks you are dealing with.

 

[Latestarter]

So I slow, offset cooked, a large, thick, rack of spare ribs on the grill this afternoon for lunch/dinner. The grill is big enough that I could turn on the outside burners and have the meat in the middle away from direct flame. They came out superb. I still have a big double set of frozen beef ribs, but I'm out of time for cooking them. I think I'm going to give them to my neighbor. Got 2 bedrooms cleaned out/empty and packed up. All the books are packed. The kitchen is torn apart so 1/2 my cooking stuff is ready to be boxed up. #1 daughter got brought home tonight with several bags of groceries. Including several bags of frozen meats. It's quarter after 11 and I have to get up early for a doc appt tomorrow. Not even tired or ready for bed. I also need to run around and get forms signed after the doc visit, then back to packing. Man I hate moving...

 

[AClark]

I wouldn't miss that VA appointment if G.W. Bush said he was coming over for coffee at that time. I'm acutely aware of how long y'all wait for those and yeah, your loan officer is a jackass for pulling that late on a Friday and expecting it on Monday. As if DMV/county buildings are going to be open on a weekend in states that do it by county. in AZ you can find weekend DMV's in Tucson and Phoenix if you can make the drive, because it goes by state and not county, but I know how CO works as I used to have a vehicle registered there until I got tired of the harassment.
By harassment, I mean BS traffic stops and constantly being searched for "drugs" specifically something legalized in CO. Both reasons to be pulled over were really BS and no citations, but they pressured us hard (as my poor husband is completely baffled on what they're asking about when they say "personal amounts") and ran drug dogs over our vehicle both times (yes because a family of 6 with a dog looks like your average drug mule, lol). After two of those stops in a weeks time, I went down to DMV and changed out the plates - haven't been pulled over since.

I ran 135GB of usage in a month with all the streaming we do - that's 2 TV's with streaming tv service, 3 xbox 360's for the kids to game on, we also have 2 cell phones that are on wifi for calling at the house. The TV is only on basically after 5 PM, since I'm the only one home during the day and I don't watch anything on day time TV. This months worth that I looked up might not be consistent since I just set up Roku's in the living room and bedroom and they downloaded a bunch of stuff right off - we're ditching our cable TV because of the price and basically barely ever use it.
I used to game, so I get how you can suck that down, but I eventually got burned out on gaming online and found I had a lot more productive things to do without it. I also sleep better since I'm not up half the night "raiding" anymore, lol. You might be busy enough that you spend less time online killing baddies and it goes down to a "normal" amount of bandwidth. I was always a night owl and now I'm crashed long before 11 PM unless I have to stay up to make sure something gets in the dryer before the morning.

Moving sucks! I'm with you there. I tried getting started on downsizing the garage junk and I didn't get far with it. We just broke down the intex pool over the weekend and have it hanging to dry out so we can roll it up and pack it. I have to let the grass grow back where it was before we leave or pay for the yard to be fixed. Granted, someone else will pack and move ours, but the cleaning out junk is a big bummer. We moved into this house ourselves and it took 3 trips with a 30 ft flatbed to get it all in here including having both the truck beds packed down like redneck moving day, it's a lot to do with 2 small adults trying to move stuff that outweighs us combined. Then unloading the 2nd load, I dropped the flat bed ramp (it's for a back hoe) letting it down, and apparently my finger was in the grating. Cut it to the bone and probably broke it from the looks of it now - it sits at a 45 degree angle to the rest of my fingers, lol.
Just keep the goal in mind and it makes the rest of it easier!

 

[Mini Horses]

Hope all the "powers that be" can get in gear & do what you need while you are there.....so to speak! The loan processor needs a good kick in the patootie....

 

[Mini Horses]

Cooler & rain today. Can't work outside, soooo I am cooking from the freezer. All your fault, Latestarter....those meals you described. Wasn't doing a big turkey!! Maybe ribs later in week, from my own butchered pigs, of course!

 

[Mike CHS]

Whenever we smoke pork we do multiple racks of ribs or at least a couple of pork shoulders. We have so much vacuum sealed that every time Latestarter gets us hungry we just have to put the bag in boiling water.

 

[Baymule]

This will all get better........ I promise.