The Salvation Army came by and picked up some stuff. They took a dresser, end table, bag of clothes, computer desk and other stuff.
This is what the room looked like before they took the stuff.
I am not sure when I will pack and ship this computer. I need it to get UPS packages ready and print labels. Right now I am still online. Four days and Russell and I will be living in Fort Worth.
I am waiting for the UPS man to show up. I have one 55 pound box to ship. It is costing me about $50.00 so it looks like it cost about a $1.00 a pound to ship from Miami to Fort Worth.
I just called and told them to turn off the cable phone, cable TV and cable Internet service here on the 15th. I am going to ask Ken if he can return the cable modem to their office. If he does not want to do that…I guess I can take it, on the bus, on the 12th. My final bill from Comcast will be $31.24 and they are going to send the bill to the new address in Fort Worth. I recommend Comcast cable service. They have been excellent in all areas.
I walked up today and got two 18×18x18 boxes. I made it back OK with them. I had a bit of a head wind and the boxes were like wings … Couple of times I was thinking I was going to take off.. like the balloon boy. It looks to me like these boxes are about the right size.
Russell said he would go to BestBuy and buy a new video card for the broken computer. I think that is the problem with it. So if he gets a video card today and we get that computer in operation I will send the computer I am using priority mail to Fort Worth. Then the other computer I will send on Tuesday or Wednesday and it could be there on Friday when we get there. If not I think we would get it on Friday. I can not be without my computers.
I tossed a printer in the trash today. I am going to toss a 14 inch CRT monitor in the trash tomorrow. I tossed a bunch of cables in the trash today. Russell says I will never need them… Just wait.. I bet something comes up where I need those cables.
I have got a third old computer.. I do not know if I should take it or trash it. The hard drive is bad on it.
My feet and legs are swollen so big…. I think it is the salt from the subs. I am going to try and eat better in Fort Worth. It will not be easy.
When I get to Fort Worth I got to get a Texas driver license. Then I can get a discount bus/rail card. It will let me ride the bus for 75 cents. Then I got to find a new insurance company. I may just try and make due with my current insurance company and then just switch on January 1st. I am going to need to get a bed, computer desk and office chair. We will be in Fort Worth in six days.
When I heard about the shooting today in Texas at Fort Hood I was wondering if Texas Gov. Rick Perry had decided to leave the union and if this was the first shots in his leaving the union. Texas Gov. Rick Perry attended a tea party where the people where against the government of the United States and some in the audience yelled out “Secede!” Gov. Perry called the people at the event “patriots” and suggested Texas might secede from the union. But today I saw him on TV being interviewed by the press….He had no details of the shooting at Fort Hood but he said that he supported the military and had good relations with the Federal government so I guess this was not the opening round of Texas leaving the union.
I watched a lot of the TV reporting on the shooting at Fort Hood. All the networks had “experts” that knew nothing and told us nothing that we did not already know… Some of them said they had been to Fort Hood. Some even were in the military and had been to Fort Hood but they had zero useful information. It was just a waste of airtime. Poor CNN had a big Google Map and kept showing us buildings. Later we find out it was the wrong buildings. Faux “news” (aka Fox “news”) had a big scoop … the other networks had a photo of the shooter and knew his name and that he was in the military and a doctor and Faux “news” had his cousin on the telephone talking and they were asking him questions. I bet CNN news people are home now in their beds crying their eyes out.
Twelve people killed and 31 wounded by a Psychiatrist! A doctor that was in the military to help service men and deal with their stress and problems and he starts shooting them… You have to think this is a dream and I am going to wake up…But it was real. We have put our service men through hell and their families and now they are being shot at home on a military base by a doctor. How sad… All we can do is pray for the people AND try and find out what went wrong… How did the doctor get two handguns? One report was that all day he was being talked to by CID officers and then he pulls out loaded guns and starts shooting. Someone fucked up I am sorry to say.
Thank God… At last I found something interesting about Fort Worth! I will check it out when I get to Fort Worth and that is going to be in 10 days. It is the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. I will check it out and take some photos and make some videos. It looks great. Their site says everyone is welcome to take photographs and take casual pictures during visits but the charge professional photographers $75.00 an hour! Well I am not a professional but they might object if I set up and try and do a video for YouTube. I guess it is a good thing I do not have a camera that looks fancy. Smile
In the last few months I have used MetroPCS service and BoostMobile. Right now I am using BoostMobile service. When I move to Fort Worth I am not going to have a land line phone. I am just going to use my cell phone.
The current cell phone I have is a Motorola i776.
I just watched a couple of reviews on YouTube of the MetroPCS Samsung Code SCH-1220. One of the reviews is below. When I can come up with $300.00 I am going to get the Samsung Code and go with the MetroPCS service.
Anyone in Fort Worth tell me how good is he MetroPCS signal in Fort Worth? I will be living in ZIP code area: 76116. hnbbs@usa.net
Ken says he will take me to The UPS Store for boxes on Thursday. Then I can start to box up my stuff. I will feel much better when I have everything in boxes. I am glad we are flying and not driving. A three hour flight is not bad. A 21 hour drive is bad … very bad for me.. I tend to fall asleep as soon as I get behind the wheel. I do not plan to get cable TV in Texas. That is the plan. We will see how long I can hold out … I do not watch much TV but I am very interested in the news. My plan is to get the Hauppauge 1200 Win TV HVR-850 HDTV Tuner. It is USB and I will hook it in my computer and watch digital local over the air stations.
I also do not plan to get a land line phone. I plan to use my cell phone as my only phone. I would like to have one of the new smart phones but I can not see paying $100.00 a month for the service.
I can think of one good thing about Fort Worth. I think they will have real donut shops. I can get a real donut. In Miami you get Cuban stuff. It may not be a good idea for me to be filling up on donuts but I got to have a few after five years in Miami.
Senior Journal dot Com reports “Senior Citizens Facing Higher Medicare Drug Plan Premiums May Seek Lower Cost Options.” “…Oct. 8, 2009 – Medicare announced in August that senior citizens are expected to face a 7 percent premium increase for the average Part D prescription drug plan in 2010. The news is even worse for some in Medicare Advantage plans that will see a premium jump of almost 22 percent…”
The article says that we can try a less expense insurance plan. The problem is that many of us already had the least expensive plan. The numbers they give look correct to me… I been looking at the new 2010 plans and I am finding they all have made increases in the cost of medications. I been getting my medications for free but it looks like I am going to pay at least $50.00 a month for the three I get now and if a doctor adds some medications my cost will go up. There are other costs that could hit me and others.
I am still looking for a SS medical insurance plan…I was thinking that I just was not finding the right plan…Now I see that all of the plans are increasing what it is going to cost us. It looks like Jarrod is correct in his comment here – see comment here. If he is correct, and it appears he is, it is going to hurt me a great deal but if it means that all Americans will have national health insurance I am more than willing to pay the price.
I would stay with my current insurance plan but I will have to pick a new one in Texas.
I will be moving to Fort Worth (TX) in 12 days. Yes we are flying on Friday the 13th.
My grandson and I will be moving into a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment on the 2nd floor. I am 68 years old and tired of moving. I hope I do not have to move again. If I move again.. I hope I just have a laptop computer and can just tuck it under my arm and move. It is so hard to move now days and expensive. I do not have a car and that could be the problem. If I had a pickup truck I could move all of my stuff. I do not have that much.
I been living in Miami (FL). There is a lot going on here and there are tons of things to do everyday. I was in Fort Worth about six years ago and it looked like it was a ghost town. We even went to the Tandy Center and it looked the same. Now I am going to be living in Fort Worth. God, help me.
I been looking up information on Fort Worth and looking at some YouTube videos about Fort Worth and they all mention the same four or five things. I am not impressed. We will see what I find when I live in Fort Worth. I sure hope I can make a better video on YouTube about Fort Worth.
Well I do not want Comcast service in Fort Worth. I checked and my ex-wife and son have AT&T DSL service. They like the service. They have the AT&T High Speed Internet Express service for $25.00 a month and that gives them 1.5 Mbps Down and 384 Kbps Up. AT&T has these other two plans:
So I told my ex-wife we could upgrade to the AT&T High Speed Internet Elite service and that would be 6 Mbps Down and 768 Kbps Up and I would pay for the Internet service and in fact give her $15.00 extra each month. Then Russ and I could get the service via Wifi since we will just be upstairs. I often pay for an extra IP number or two and we might want to do that and I would pay for those. I have not heard back from my ex-wife yet. I am sure she will go for the deal. I would be paying for the entire Internet package and they would get faster Internet service. That is a win win for them.
I filled out the online application for the apartment in Fort Worth. They wanted a lot of information. I expect to be approved. I am sure there is going to be more that I have to do. I am sure they will send me a printed form to fill out and want a deposit. Russell and I plan to move about the middle of next month.
We have lived in Texas. Jimmy and I moved from Orlando (FL) to Carrollton (TX). Then Darlene, Russell, Jimmy and I moved from Carrollton to Hillsboro (TX). Then Ken and I moved to Miami (FL). Russell moved here later to join us. We have been in Miami for about five years.
I did think of one good reason, other than family being there, to live in Fort Worth. I am a amateur radio operator (“ham”) and they have an excellent D-Star repeater network in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
“D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) is a digital voice and data protocol specification developed as the result of research by the Japan Amateur Radio League to investigate digital technologies for amateur radio. While there are other digital on-air technologies being used by amateurs that have come from other services, D-Star is one of the first on-air standards to be widely deployed and sold by a major radio manufacturer that is designed specifically for amateur service use.
D-Star compatible radios are available on VHF and UHF and microwave amateur radio bands. In addition to the over-the-air protocol, D-Star also provides specifications for network connectivity, enabling D-Star radios to be connected to the Internet or other networks and provisions for routing data streams of voice or packet data via amateur radio callsigns.
The first manufacturer to offer D-Star compatible radios is Icom. As of December 30, 2008, no other amateur radio equipment manufacturer has chosen to include D-Star technology in their radios. Kenwood re-brands an Icom radio and distributes it in Japan only…” Wikipedia
I am not sure there is even one D-STAR repeater in the Miami area. Now, of course, there is one little problem for me. I do not own a D-Star radio. It would cost me $500.00 to get the radio above and that is the lowest priced radio they sell. I am not sure when I can afford one.
If you can think of any other good things about Fort Worth PLEASE send me an email or post a comment. My email address is: showmeblog@gmail.com
