Where the wind comes sweeping down the plane UPDATE

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 4th, 2011

Our email problems have been resolved… after five days and about two dozen phone calls to Verizon’s Billing department, tech line, etc. See below.

We woke up early (4 AM, maybe?) on Monday, the day that PODS was scheduled to come by with Podzilla and take away our possessions. About an hour later, we learned that our main email account (the one we use for everything, bmckim_at sign_verizon_dot_net) had been suspended. All the emails and contacts– GONE!

A couple hours later, our DSL cut out.

None of this was supposed to happen until the first. We tried about a dozen times to contact Verizon and rectify the situation, but we were constantly cut off, hung up on, disconnected. Kind of odd that we’d be cut off, considering Verizon is a PHONE COMPANY!

OUR bmckim_(at sign)_verizon_dot_net is BACK! Business as usual!

Podzilla took our stuff, we locked our keys into our old apartment and we pointed the SHECKYWagon southeast.

That was Monday morning.

We managed to thread the needle for the first three days of our trip. We didn’t see any of the historic blizzard and until yesterday morning, we weren’t affected by it. But the folks in Oklahoma aren’t all that savvy when it comes to clearing the highways.

We’re in Okemah, OK, right now. We ditched off of Interstate 40 yesterday because it was a teeth-rattling washboard of ice and craters and we were only able to achieve top speeds of 32 mph– and then only for a few minutes here and there.

We have opted to hole up here for another day. We don’t trust that OKDOT has its act together sufficiently to have made the route between here and OK City safe (or smooth) enough over the past 24 hours. And now it’s snowing.

It’s not like we’re on a deadline.

And we could use some down time. The weekend leading up to our departure was 96 hours of shoveling, packing, loading and carrying.

And we neglected a lot of things. Like we didn’t comment on the deaths of two of our comedy favorites from our early years– Charlie Callas and David Frye. Both spent their last days in Vegas and both died within a couple days of each other. May they rest in peace.

And here is a link to Charles Osgood’s piece on the passing of both comedians, done for CBS Sunday Morning. (There’s a commercial on the front end of it… and embedding has been disabled. Go figure.)

from → News • 0 Comments - Let's discuss! • Print-Friendly • Back To Top