Allow me to vent a bit about Callway Gardens.
We’ve been here for a few days. The place is great. We’re in a cottage in the woods.
When I travel, I have to stay at a place with a reliable internet connection. Being a one man show, I have to check in on a regular basis.
The cottages at Callaway have high speed internet.
Except they don’t.
On the off chance this gets posted to Peach Pundit, that’ll be all I can post for about fifteen minutes. It is the most bizarre situation. The cable modem works fine until the moment you try to actually use it. As soon as it starts getting requests for data, the lock light goes from green to orange.
Wait ten minutes and it all clears up.
There are three cable modems in the cottage — one in each room. Generally, the two that aren’t being used work fine. But the moment I move from one to the other, the one I move to stops working within a few minutes of me plugging in.
The kicker is that I keep calling guest relations and they will not let me talk to the tech support guys. They want to rely messages.
I thought this place was supposed to be better than a Motel 6 when it came to stuff like this.
The moral of the story seems to be that if you are a businessman who needs to travel with a laptop, don’t stay in the cottages at Callaway Gardens.
UPDATED: After multiple calls for two days, the cable guy finally came to my cottage. “Oh, we don’t use those cable modems anymore,” he said. “These should have already been replaced.” He replaces them. Everything works.
Thanks Charter Cable Guy!
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Verizon Aircard!
Love Callaway though, glad you’re visiting our lovely side of the state!
Will you give Francis Urquhart a call at his office? You know who that is. Thanks.
sshhhh shhhhshhh What was that Erick? shshhshhsh you are coming in all garbled sssshhhhh shshhhhh
That was seriously boring.
I’m finally getting back here, and you’re attempting to drive me off again.
Exacty, Jenny. Personal whines like Erick’s are supposed to be confined to 140-character blasts on Twitter, aren’t they?
Well what keeps more than 15 seconds into a ‘Just Jenny’ is wondering what kind of outrageous stunt the kids might pull when you aren’t looking.
Precisely. I’m doing my best to use my children as propaganda. Now if I could just get someone to buy commercial time.
I don’t know what more weird- Responding this clear attack against Walkin’ Austin Scott or thinking Jenny is stumping for Segway Free Pasage Rights.
I’ve never been there and never intend to. They have a ban on any two wheeled vehicles, a thinly veiled discrimination of motorcyclists. You can not even pull into the lot.
Unless that has changed, I hope they rot.
a thinly veiled discrimination of motorcyclists.
“Thinly?” I thought it was pretty “in-your-face.” Callaway is a place for peaceful tranquility. You can’t get peace when you are subjected to the loud roar of a motorcycle.
And…by the way, those “Look Twice, Save a Life. Motorcyclists Are Everywhere.” bumper stickers are stupid. If YOU are on a motorcycle, YOU better look out where you’re going. You don’t have any more right to the road (or to your life) than I or any other person using it at the time.
As a motorcyclist, I completely understand and respect Callaway’s standing on Motorcycles. There are plenty of beautiful areas on Pine Mountain to enjoy a nice ride without having to ride into a private (pay to enter) park. I can see how it would disturb the tranquility of the park.
As for the ignorant statement about the “Motorcyles are everywhere”. Calling a bumper sticker reminding people to be aware stupid is ignorant and unresponsible. The last I checked we are still in a free society and the right to place such a bumper sticker on a vehicle falls under the first amendment.
Mr. Simon, seeing how you work in the field of politics, advertise your website which advertises Political campaign advisory , AND post such an openly anti constitutional statement such as this only degrades your argument against said issue.
With people like you in politics, it’s no wonder we’re in such a state of degradation in America.
You’re volley sir…
Lawton
Lawton,
The point was that, in my 30 some-odd years of driving, it has been the motorcyclists who are the ones being unsafe and reckless on the road.
They speed. They weave in and out of traffic without proper signaling. When single, they ride lanes illegally quite often (i.e., failing to ride on the left side of a lane).
So, why should I be responsible for “looking twice” when it is, by their very nature (as well as deliberate inclination), the actions of the motorcyclist that usually ends up causing an accident?
If you want a sticker that might actually DO something to prevent motorcyclist accidents and deaths, put a sticker on top of the gasoline tank of every motorcycle that lists the freaking rules of the road for motorcyclists to be reminded of…because it is YOU folks who fail to adhere to them with any significant percentage of participation by your drivers.
Top spin return back to you, Sir…
Look Twice, Save a Life. Squirrles Are Everywhere
Look Twice, Save a Life. Semis Are Everywhere
Look Twice, Save a Life. Evil Alien Robots Are Everywhere
Look Twice, Save a Un-Life. Zombies Are Everywhere
I stayed at the lodge at Callaway, nice place, last fall. I had zero cell service unless I went out and stood in the parking lot and even then there was no guarantee you could get one bar. Callaway is a beautiful place but if you’re an internet addict you need to look elsewhere for a resort.
Callaway is a beautiful place but if you’re an internet addict you need to look elsewhere for a resort.
Like a Tibetan monastery, perhaps?…
Yeah, they’re probably jiggy with it: http://www.namgyal.org/
Speaking of Callaway – Ledger-Enquirer just posted that Bo Callaway endorsed Josh McKoon for Senate 29.
Chris-
With all the look twice, save a life, lines I was waiting for something about prenatal murder, genetically modified organisms, or vaccines.
1. Bill, 90% of motorcycles are quieter than 4 wheel diesel passenger trucks. I have no problem with, and would endorse a ‘no loud exhaust’ general rule there.
2. The most common ‘excuses’ for colliding with a 2 wheel vehicle is “I didn’t see them” and “I not paying attention, on phone, etc”. Forgive those who are actually organized as a citizen organization (motorcyclists) versus others (zombie unionists) to remind people to PAY ATTENTION while they are driving, PERIOD. If that ‘offends’ you, then you obviously still listen to “talk radio’ for your opinion forming.
3. The “Look Twice” campaign is the ONLY ongoing safety campaign ABATE has ever been regularly involved with (besides adopt-a-highway). Yeah it took a genius! (actually, theystole the idea from another state chapter, LOL). That way, when the 2%er’s (who do not claim to represent the majority of motorcycle owners) meet at their bars for their meetings, they can drink up, comforted that they have ‘done their part’ for motorcycle safety.
4. Helmet laws suck. If you think helmets are ‘all that’ regarding safety, pass a law forcing people in cars to wear the damn things. Leave your straw dog ‘I have to pay for their head injury’ BS aside as well, once you research the minuscule cost of motorcycle related injuries to passenger vehicle non-insured injury costs.
5. I love how Bill has hijacked this thread, ONE MORE TIME
(ducking under desk)
Personally, I am in TOTAL agreement with you on Rick with regards to the helmet law. Furthermore, I’m not really that concerned with having to pay for “head injuries.”
Because with any luck the head injuries will be fatal and we won’t have to worry about paying for anything when a motorcyclist comes roaring down the road at TWICE the speed limit and rams into an unmovable object.
I am totally shocked that you would even consider “Hoping for a fatality on anyone” . You sir, are far removed from reality.
I worked in the emergency medicine field for 10 years and know for a fact that helmets work therefore, although I think freedom of choice should rule the day. I totally understand and respect the helmet law’s intent.
You honestly hope for a motorcyclist’s fatality during an accident? Are you serious? Is this really your stance?
Lawton,
To the immediate point of wearing or not wearing a helmet: If someone is STUPID enough to want to ride without a helmet, I say give them the freedom to do so…just don’t come crying to the medical healthcare system to PAY for their own deliberate recklessness…and increase the rates I pay.
Do you think everyone should have to pay for everyone else’s reckless behavior, and any consequences thereof?
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