In any given day, we all have a varying degree of “bright spots” and “low points.”  Oh yes. It varies.  It could be high-in-the-sky-apple-pie-goodness…. all the way down to the lowest of despicable woes.

Most days… it is good if it all stays just around the center.

I was going to complain about Century Link tonight… which is our phone company. Our land line provider. Our Neanderthals.

But instead, I’ll start off with a good point. I live in Gasper Township, in Preble County, Ohio. I have to give a big old “shout out” to our Township Trustees. We have had a crappy-doodle winter thus far. Our trustees are pretty amazing at keeping the roads free and clear. I don’t know how they do it…. but they must be working their butts off. Out in those trucks… come snow, or come snow.

As far as I know… those super-super-dupers are Eric White, Bill Roell, Michael Allen, and Anitra Roell. Honest to goodness. What a great, great job they do.

Second great thing. I so enjoyed watching the birds today. They were freezing their little feathers off…. I didn’t like THAT part. But they managed to belly-up to our feeders, and refuel just a bit. Good for the birds. Good for me. We had everything from American Tree Sparrows, to Red Bellied Woodpeckers… to Junkos. I just loved it. I Tweeted. Literally.

Okay… now for my complaining.

Dang it.  Century Link changed our home phone number. There. I’ve said it. But for crying out loud….. we’ve had this same number for nearly 18 years. We’ve experience our fair share of woes with them lately… an entire barrage of things going wrong. Finally, they determined we had to place a service call. This all spilled out a couple of weeks ago. Wellllll…….. Someone wasn’t paying attention… or something…. and changed our phone number. Yes. Changed it.

After speaking with four separate Century Link agents today, they assured me the situation would be back to normal about a half an hour. Hmmmm. Twelve hours later…. it turns out…. still no ringy-dingy. I don’t have the strength to call them back.

I am tired of fighting.  So when I find out what the new number is…. I’ll let you know.

But believe you me…. I think all of this is for the birds. If only Century Link could be more like those super hero township trustees. Yeah.

“I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”  –  Nana Mouskouri