Sacramento here we come!

We heard on the news that it was foggy in the Sacramento area so we decided to take our time leaving this morning. John took our flat tire up to Les Schwab and got the valve stem replaced. While he was gone, I baked some cookies to take up to the office as our way of saying thank you and goodbye. After John returned, we took our cookies up to the office to say goodbye. Bill once again said he'd put us to work if we'd stick around. We were told to keep them in mind and to stop by again soon. They are a great group of people with a wonderful RV park.

We got on the road around 10:30 a.m. and the fog didn't thicken up until we got to the causeway. We got to Cal Expo around 1 p.m. and started setting up. We had a devil of a time getting our MotoSat to lock on to the satellite. Actually, we had tree trouble. We had to re-hookup and pull forward to try to shoot past the tree. While hooked up to the truck, I got locked on to the satellite. Yea! So we unhooked and started the set-up procedure again. It took the satellite forever to connect. I thought we would have to go into the office to see if we could get another site but finally, we connected. It was now 3:30 p.m. and we were starving as we had breakfast at 7 a.m. and no lunch. John said "let's go to The Kabob House". As always, the hummus and marinated chicken was wonderful. We had a nice visit with the owner, Eli, and got caught up with our respective lives. Eli said that business was pretty slow and that he was working way too many hours. He has a great place and I hope he can weather this recession.

When we got home, I turned on the TV to find that our DirecTv receiver would not turn on. I unplugged the receiver, waited five minutes, and plugged it back in. Still it would not turn on. I fussed with it a little bit more and then called DirecTv for assistance. After a few attempts, it was decided that a new receiver would be sent so we could swap them out. This will be the second receiver we've replaced since October. You can say we aren't a happy DirecTv customer right now. The shame is that we've heard that Dish Tv is just as bad. After dinking with the reset button again, the receiver finally came on and off a couple of times to ultimately die giving us the dreaded 774 message that means its hard drive died. What is it with the electronics today???? Could it be the valley fog???? Thank goodness our TV antennae works so we have TV to watch.