getting ready to leave

We are leaving for our annual summer business meeting on Friday. This year it is in Lake Tahoe - incline village. It will be fabulous once we get on the road but it sure is hectic getting ready to go. So yesterday I was out all day with errands. You know getting the car serviced, picking up last minute supplies, shopping for some fun new outfits to wear. Today was supposed to be spent getting the loose ends cleaned up at work so we wouldn't have to work while we are traveling- yeah right. that's why Mike is packing his computer and I have the a smart phone. So we get to work and we we have no Internet. This is a major problem since even our calendar is web-based. So Mike calls Clear and we get a guy who sounds like he is 70 years old and its the first day on the job possible his first day with computers. Anyway, over the next hour and a half we establish that we can get some signal from the front windows of the house and that the soonest a tech can get out is Thursday morning. We were not happy. We also discovered that the portable modem didn't work if the main modem wasn't working. Big help. We spent from 10am until 3:30 messing with trying to get a signal and all of the sudden it comes back on and it is working great. Thank you computer gods! We got some of the work done the rest will have to wait until I get back from picking Tae berries tomorrow morning with Sarah and the boys. Looking forward to that. Pictures tomorrow.