Borlok VA Takes the Plunge

Criminy Christmas! We did it. We took the plunge and got our feet wet and have migrated once again (again) to Borlok Virtual Assistants.

It will have new bells and whistles as soon as I figure them all out. I won’t be dismantling this blog for awhile so you can check both.  Come Check Us Out!

Shop Until You Drop

Oh, the joys of Christmas shopping for someone you love. Run here and there, get what’s on this wish list, what’s on that wish list. The joy of seeing their faces when they wake up early Christmas morning makes the memories of standing in line for hours due to a shortage of employees all fade away in a blink of an eye.

Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

You’ve all heard the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” right? Well, I’m here to dispute that fact. Of course, you have to realize that the old dog we’re talking about at this time is me, okay? I get so excited sometimes about the things that I learn each and every day – new things on blogging, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, article writing – I can hardly contain myself.

If I were to give any new virtual assistant some benefit of my knowledge that I’ve gained over the years, it would be to definitely look at each day with new eyes. Search for opportunities to learn, and tuck the gold coins of knowledge in your memory library for instant recall later on in life. You will be amazed at how much you have learned over the years.

For me, I’m very glad this old dog can learn new tricks.

Are You a Night Owl?

Are you one that has recently upgraded to digital cable with COX.net or are you thinking about it? Maybe you are someone that either stays up all night because you work all day or you just can’t sleep?  Are you getting wavy lines across your TV, glitches in sound, notifications that there is no data available, or even worse yet the “This station is currently unavailable. Please try again later message?” This happens to every single station?

We are. We are elderly individuals that leave our TV on to sleep – you know, like some people leave the radio on for the sound.  We like to listen to Country Western music softly or even have programs on. Recently, we’ve been experiencing the above problems EVERY NIGHT starting between 11:00 and 12:00 PM Phoenix time. And then, we wouldn’t get our stations back until 8:30 or 9:00 o’clock in the morning. We actually ended up with less stations than what we had before upgrading to digital.

Now, here’s the kicker. Did you know you have to turn your TV off every night? It seems that COX does upgrades to digital EVERY night between 1:00 – 6:00 in the morning; and if you have digital cable, your box won’t get the upgrades. Yeah, that’s what they told us!  And that’s why we don’t get channels – no sound – nada – zilch. You have to put your TV and box to bed, just like you would put your child to bed. Hmph, doesn’t that beat all. So much for technology improvements.