(7:30am Jan 18 Madrid Time)
Apparenty sleep is for the weak. Super comfy bed though!
Its too hard to get Oilers Highlights over the internet here. Sportsnet blocks videos (no out of country access) and tsn takes a long time to load. Time to go explore a Palace!
Hotel front
I want a bathroom sink like this
Free mini bar
(11:15pm Madrid time)
I made it!
My luggage made it!
I’m so tired! Time to sleep. Explore tomorrow.
There is over thirteen hours of airplane transit each way!
Packing List: Entertainment
5 days…
In marketing terms, I am pretty brand loyal about a lot of things. In the case of my home land-line phone, the incumbent Telus was where I was happy to dedicate my patronage for about nine years. In that time there were cheaper alternatives, (such as internet phone services, or dropping the land line altogether for a cell phone). I figured “hey, Telus is the phone expert, they do this well, and I have no problems with them, so why bother making any changes,” case closed.
Then just over a year ago, I started to think “hey, I do not get a lot of value for money on this phone service”. Shaw Cable had been offering their cheaper digital phone service for a while, and I sent an inquiry to Telus asking for a more competitive rate. Instead I got back rhetoric that the competition was not the same product, that Telus offers a higher quality of product and service, and other promotional buzz-words. So, whatever, no deal on the phone, I’ll just leave it alone anyways.
This Christmas Break I had a chance to clean the office a little and catch up on some filing, the contents of which included a recent Shaw Digital Phone ad and 18 months of Telus phone bills. Wow, for what I used and what I paid, I could have saved at least $200 this past year! I kinda need that money more than ever now. So later this week Telus will be getting the punt as I start to cheer for Team Shaw, and we’ll see if they really can deliver the value-for-dollar that they claim.
Don’t worry Telus, unlike many Albertans who seem to despise you with every fiber of their being, I don’t hate you. I just want to pay less money. And you still have my unwavering support when it comes to my cell phone. Which is in the middle of a three year contract. And is not an iPhone…
We moved into the house in May, and our immediate neighbours moved in sometime during the summer. Having never properly met, we thought we’d go over to arrange a visit. Upon answering the doorbell:
Hello, sorry, we are just leaving to the hospital to have our baby.
What are the odds? It was pretty amusing timing.