Love your public library

I wish I knew how to reconfigure my laptop so that I can connect to the various wi-fi networks...it works once in a while but not in the last couple of days...screen says it can't load the page because of a server problem. And all the dial up numbers for the area that my ISP gave me don't work either ("You cannot complete your call as dialed. Please hang up and check the number...") My helpful ISP guy says it must be particular phone I'm using. I don't have access here to another wired phone. I hesitate to ask any of the savvy guys at the RV park because if they screw up my settings or whatever, we will be truly screwed since next week we head into a remote area of Mexico. Bah!

So, here we are in the Hondo TX public library which is, first of all, COOL and secondly has a strong wi-fi signal that quickly told me I was connected and then wouldn't load the page.
The solution, which is temporary at best is to sit in the lovely air-conditioned library and use one of their very fast computers.

This is helpful because we needed to find an RV dealer to fix a couple of problems: the poorly designed range hood switch doesn't work and the panel on the storage door needs to be properly installed. Just looking for Four Winds as the model doesn't cut it. Apparently the motor homes are a different species from the travel trailers and 5th wheels. When I asked one dealer what was the big deal because the appliances are the same, he said he didn't have a license to work on anything with an engine. Can't argue with that logic.

We have however made contact with the right dealer(Hopefully!!) and will be at his door when it opens at 8 tomorrow morning, though he said the men don't usually get working til 8:30. New Braunfels is northeast of San Antonio and we are some 40 miles west, so it will be an early start.

New Braunfels has a strong German immigrant history. We were there a few years ago for the Wurstfest, a famous version of Octoberfest. Lots of sausages, beer, strudel, oompah bands (the tuba player could have fitted into his huge horn) accordians, lederhosen, and fun. And of course the volksdanzen Chicken Dance as performed by enthusiastic beer drinkers.

Unfortunately, this year's Wurstfest was last weekend, so we missed it.

The citizens of the park cleared out their storage sheds for Saturday's flea market and we scored some neat stuff for which we have no room: a new Belgian wafflemaker, stick mixer, little 12v heater, a small singing Santa and an almost new English folding bike. The bike will go on the back bumper rack along with my scooter, a five gallon gas can and three folding director's chairs. Happily I have an spouse/engineer who is responsible for that outside stuff. I have already paid him off in waffles and some of our hoard of Vermont maple syrup.

Hey, this library computer business is great. Jim does the Sudoku in the local paper while I lose some of my frustrations at a computer that likes me.