JOHN SEZ: Daddy let me use his kindle. It is very cool.

Why aren’t we in the Expedition? Because it lived up (or down) to its
name: Fix Or Repair Daily. The suspension went out in the back. Not to
be denied, we hopped into the Lex and away we go!

Never are they so quiet as when mouthes are otherwise occupied.

Car is fueled, kids are fed…

We’re on our way!

Using Mogolus, our Verizon card, and the built-in camera on my trusty
MacBook Pro, we will send periodic live updates. Yes, the DaddyMom is
a geek.

In my never-ending effort to over complicate expand capabilities of this site, we’re going to try tried a live broadcast from our road trip today. And, if had the Verizon Gods are been with us, you‘ll get would have seen live video along the way.

What happened to that spiffy broadcast?
The Verizon Gods were absolutely not with us–and won’t be anymore.

Today I discovered the V640 card I purchased about two years ago is no longer current to the Verizon network. No big. Figured I’d stop by and get an upgrade. After being passed over in favor of phone-buying customers, the Verizon rep knew less about my card than I do–and that’s not much. The V740 model number on the display unit seemed an obvious clue…

After 25 minutes of waiting and delay, they finally told me it would be about $100 for a new one–with a longer contract. I paid less than that for the card new.

Today was a potent reminder of past experiences with Verizon "service," which has never been, in my opinion, their strong suit. Once upon a time I had four phones PLUS the air card with Verizon. The iPhone first lured me to AT&T. Their service won the rest of my phone business. All that remained with Verizon until today was that card. Now, they don’t even have that.