When I first setup our internet with AT&T it seemed to be a good deal. The cost versus performances was reasonable but over the years it seemed that the service was getting slower even though I had a guaranteed bandwidth of 12MB’s. Another weird situation was with my email authenticating with the various domain names I own. I’d get weird errors about not being able to authenticate my account credentials.
So… today I’m switch over to a service I left many years ago Comcast. They have since changed the service name to Xfinity but it’s the same company. I’ll be using the Motorola SB6141 and the Apple Airport Extreme revision 6. This will be the first time I will not be renting the providers equipment, I wanted a dedicated modem instead of the “all-in-one” solutions.
Waiting for the Xfinity tech to come by and connect my cable lines…
EDIT: technician came by and hooked up the cable. Still no signal! It turns out there is a break in signal between the street box and our home. Next step, underground crew..
Just got my car from the dealership for a Saturn ION recall, pulled into a gas station and the damn car won’t start. Now I’m waiting for a tow back to the dealership. A whole morning lost..
EDIT: Bumpy ride back into town..
EDIT: It turns out that the battery was not holding a charge. I guess this is a reasonable condition since the car was sitting in front of the house for so many months before I took it in for the recall repair.
We took off heck of early this morning for the airport. The goal was to beat the Essence festival goers to the airport. Tough to say goodbye to our New Orleans family, especially Baby J. I know we’ll be back but nevertheless it’s not a good feeling. I’m am super glad that Mal & Patrick let me take a lot of photos and videos.
This morning we all woke up early to do a photo session at the City Park grounds. Lorraine and I had scoped out a few areas the day before. We were able to get some awesome photos and Baby J did really well as he slept through the whole time there. Even after we finished the photo-shoot and had some beignets at the cafe he was sound asleep.
Even after we finished the photo-shoot and had some beignets at the cafe he was sound asleep!
We had an easy night for dinner, picked up a couple pizzas from the local Pepperoni Rays.
Yup, wifey made a pot of rice to go with the pizzas and chicken wings..
Wifey and I went shopping for Baby J tonight and the store clerk heard me mentioned getting some Beignets and said that Cafe Du Monde was just down the street. We naturally had to go check it out. We have never been to New Orleans without getting our favorite pastry.
Yesterday we took a quick photo op checkout of City Park. This is one of the largest urban parks in the nation. It’s actually larger than New York cities Central Park. I’ve never really heard of it since it is out of the way and not so close to the city life where we have spent most of our visits to New Orleans.
One of the main attractions is the museum of fine arts. We went inside but had a bag check in policy. Since I was carrying a lot of camera gear I didn’t want to do the check in.
This photo taken at the botanical garden area of City Park. I can see where this would be a major attraction during the height of blooming season but during the blistering summer heat most of the showcase flower were already gone for the season.
We’ve heard about this Filipino restaurant located in New Orleans, LA. There is not a large Filipino population in NOLA so a place like Milkfish is unique. We had adobo last night and wifey wanted to get something else aside from the main dish so we checked out this new spot not from our Gentilly home location.
From the outside it’s deceiving. It gives the impression that this will be a small establishment but the setup is like the “shotgun” style homes I’ve seen and been to here in NOLA.
I’ve been to more Pinoy based restaurants than I can count. I live in Northern California where the population is huge and so we have a lot choices in our local area. I’ve never seen one that had the decor as MilkFish. It’s a different experience, something I’m not used to but not against. You definitely know you’re in an establishment that has the Filipino culture but nothing like the traditional places I’ve been to in the past.
EDIT: technician came by and hooked up the cable. Still no signal! It turns out there is a break in signal between the street box and our home. Next step, underground crew..
