January 10, 2021 - Cold So Not Much Happening Here

 We've had a chilly week but today it is even colder.

Hopefully it will be warming up soon. It is too cold for us to sit out in the afternoon for a Happy Hour although our Michigan friends have not been deterred. I believe they are a little more cold weather hardy than these Perryville Missourians.

The furnace is set on 64 degrees and it kicked on at 5:00 a.m. this morning. We are getting a lot of use out of our electric fireplace when we are up. 

We've been dealing with Dish Network issues since we arrived. We updated our receiver to a Wally receiver upon arriving here so Kelly could record programs while watching other channels. This entailed having an external hard disk for storage. We transferred the hard drive that worked fine with the old receiver to the new one but it has not been working. After numerous phone calls to Dish over the last several weeks we were told the hard drive must be bad. We purchased a new one and the same problem.  We contacted the retailer for the Wally and were told that the hard drive we purchased will not work with the Dish receiver because it is not the right brand and it is too large. It has to be a certain hard drive. No one had ever mentioned that. So we ordered a disk drive from them. Hopefully if this does not solve the problem they will take all the equipment back and issue a refund. I say "hopefully" because I had been communicating with Dish and not with the retailer so the 30 day return policy expired by a few days. We now think it is the Wally receiver but won't know until the new hard drive arrives.  I'll keep you posted.