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  • From: Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Communications
  • Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 10:53:36 -0800 (PST)

yep.... the times it has been frustrating is when i think it is a language
problem.  it is as if you try to skip fast forward thru all the early
questions or state something unrelated to the script they get lost and just
repeat the words in front of them.  fortunately most of the ones i've dealt
with related to hughes can speak well and only a couple have had accents that
were difficult to understand, and since i'm bi-lingual, i'm used to listening
thru the various accents better than some people are.

on the other hand, I've had a lot of really interesting conversations with
some of them, as most of them speak english quite well..  there are times
while you sit and wait while you are waiting for a the computer to reboot, or
diagnostic software is doing it's thing.......  to make the time pass and the
best of the frustrating situation, i start asking them questions about where
they are, the weather, any food crop shortages, economic things, blah blah
blah,,,, and then compare things to here,,,,,,,, the interest actually perks
them up and they open up and try harder,,,, plus it is fun to hear about
other people's perspectives about the US, etc.



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From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Sun, February 7, 2010 1:30:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Communications



Leslie wrote:

>
> Technical support - since it is subcontracted out of country, you go
> thru the typical routine, they only read the script. 

This drives me crazy and is one of the main reasons I want to leave ATT.
  Hughesnet is the same??


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Our land temps are WAY above normal. Real easy to judge cause you normally
couldn't dig a hole without a jackhammer around here until about March or
April and I've been digging and moving stuff with a plain old shovel all
last month. We have no frost level at all. Most strange.

Y'all must have gotten our snow out there because we haven't gotten enough
to even call it snow.

We had hard frosts in December with night time temps at 0 - 10 for 2 or 3
weeks which isn't the norm. December is usually snow which brings the temps
up.

We've had a lot of rain compared to the last few years. But then we've been
in a drought situation. The rain we've been getting has brought us up
to"normal." We just don't generally get it all at once. The lakes are up
to normal for the first time in several years.

January was cold until the last week and into February has been somewhat
warmer. Damp but warmer. I'd rather have snow and cold!

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
>
> Eh? Here in the Appalachian region January temps were below normal to
> quite below normal. Average lowest high temps for the year here are from
> the
> end of the first week in January to the middle of the third week in
> January
> and hte expected average high is 44 degrees. During that period here the
> temps were out of the 30s only one day.
>
> Was it that warm eleswhere in January?
>
>
> James</HTML>
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