Monday is very busy
Sep. 15th, 2025 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutA Verizon tech showed up to deliver a new router, and relieve us of a two channel cable card in a Tivo box, and the old router. Woot!
A. went to school, and we got her there on time. Yay us!
I walked with M.
I called a whole bunch of phone numbers. When I chatted with a Verizon agent to remove our “landline” (actually a VoIP phone) and our cable, and increase our internet speed, there appeared to be no way to evade the “optional” Home Device Protect service, which you can cancel at any time. So as soon as I had the new service, I worked on getting rid of the Home Device Protect. I called. I chatted. I got nowhere. I searched on reddit. I downloaded the Verizon app and signed in. Still, nowhere. Finally, I dug into the introductory email for Home Device Protect, which had, buried in small print in a foot note, a number for changing or canceling the service. This got me a human! This human told me I had the wrong number, but she gave me the right number AND transferred me. That got me a different human, at Verizon, and he was very helpful and removed Home Device Protect.
So if they sign you up for Home Device Protect, dig around in that original email and find the number! Here is the paragraph from my email:
“Enrollment and Cancellation: Verizon Home Device Protect continues to renew each month until canceled. As a reminder, Verizon Home Device Protect is optional and you may cancel at any time without penalty and receive a prorated refund of your monthly charge. If you cancel after the first 30 days, coverage will continue for an additional 30 days after your cancellation date. If you have questions or wish to cancel your plan, call Asurion Customer Care at 844-769-1991.”
I drove to the dentist. A. was very late getting out of school, so R. and A. were quite getting to their appointment at the dentist, but it all worked out. We made more appointments, and I drove A. home and fed her dinner. I unplugged phones, and R. collected some as well, and I will list them on FB marketplace. We are also in the middle of an extended discussion of what other than a TV we should have wherever we have a TV, definitely in Future House but also where we live now. I was reminded of all the ads on smart TVs, so we’re probably going to keep Apple TV or a related device (Fire stick or Nvidia Shield I guess would be related products, but probably they don’t have a better mix of options for us).
After we got back home, I did a zoom with I., since I was not feeling up to it on Sunday. That was nice, except the zoom quality was terrible and kept freezing. So we did some investigating, and R. had to reset a bunch of the mesh to get it to work properly. It does now seem to be working properly, even in my comfy chair in my room (which inevitably is where it was absolutely the worst).
That was a very productive day! Also, I washed sheets and noticed one of the tomatoes from the farm share wasn’t looking good at all, so I took other tomatoes from the farm share and turned them into a very nice sauce, and put the remaining 3 tomatoes that looked fine and put them in the fridge. Later, I had part of one of those in a BLT, which was extremely yummy.
I had a stir fry for lunch, with peppers and leek from the stir fry.
A. went to school, and we got her there on time. Yay us!
I walked with M.
I called a whole bunch of phone numbers. When I chatted with a Verizon agent to remove our “landline” (actually a VoIP phone) and our cable, and increase our internet speed, there appeared to be no way to evade the “optional” Home Device Protect service, which you can cancel at any time. So as soon as I had the new service, I worked on getting rid of the Home Device Protect. I called. I chatted. I got nowhere. I searched on reddit. I downloaded the Verizon app and signed in. Still, nowhere. Finally, I dug into the introductory email for Home Device Protect, which had, buried in small print in a foot note, a number for changing or canceling the service. This got me a human! This human told me I had the wrong number, but she gave me the right number AND transferred me. That got me a different human, at Verizon, and he was very helpful and removed Home Device Protect.
So if they sign you up for Home Device Protect, dig around in that original email and find the number! Here is the paragraph from my email:
“Enrollment and Cancellation: Verizon Home Device Protect continues to renew each month until canceled. As a reminder, Verizon Home Device Protect is optional and you may cancel at any time without penalty and receive a prorated refund of your monthly charge. If you cancel after the first 30 days, coverage will continue for an additional 30 days after your cancellation date. If you have questions or wish to cancel your plan, call Asurion Customer Care at 844-769-1991.”
I drove to the dentist. A. was very late getting out of school, so R. and A. were quite getting to their appointment at the dentist, but it all worked out. We made more appointments, and I drove A. home and fed her dinner. I unplugged phones, and R. collected some as well, and I will list them on FB marketplace. We are also in the middle of an extended discussion of what other than a TV we should have wherever we have a TV, definitely in Future House but also where we live now. I was reminded of all the ads on smart TVs, so we’re probably going to keep Apple TV or a related device (Fire stick or Nvidia Shield I guess would be related products, but probably they don’t have a better mix of options for us).
After we got back home, I did a zoom with I., since I was not feeling up to it on Sunday. That was nice, except the zoom quality was terrible and kept freezing. So we did some investigating, and R. had to reset a bunch of the mesh to get it to work properly. It does now seem to be working properly, even in my comfy chair in my room (which inevitably is where it was absolutely the worst).
That was a very productive day! Also, I washed sheets and noticed one of the tomatoes from the farm share wasn’t looking good at all, so I took other tomatoes from the farm share and turned them into a very nice sauce, and put the remaining 3 tomatoes that looked fine and put them in the fridge. Later, I had part of one of those in a BLT, which was extremely yummy.
I had a stir fry for lunch, with peppers and leek from the stir fry.