Life in High Def – An Artists perception

Things have been so crazy for me that I’m having a hard time hanging on!  So let’s see, where to start!

Well, I guess one of the most incredible things is that I now host my own radio show – that’s tres cool.  Something I’ve wanted to do for quite some time – even took courses in Broadcasting way back when and finally it’s all coming together.

Our Hydro Ottawa story has grown in length, almost a year now since we’ve been trying to get them to correct their Smart Meter errors – today, Jun 6/09 we decided that we’d been patient enough since Kim called us on March 16/09 to tell us she was going to put our request to have our account erradicated of the erroneous just shy of $3000 excess billing – we gave her 3 months to put this in front of her Supervisors but seems she didn’t quite have the time to give it any attention.  Today we contacted our MPP office in Ottawa South, Lauren at that office has been an awesome help.  She apparently sent a request to Ottawa Hydro May 20, 2009 to ask them to provide her with a follow up on the progress but she hadn’t heard anything back.  Tsk, tsk…so she requested that we authorize her to deal with this situation again – thanks so much Lauren!!!

We fully expect Hydro Ottawa will want to move their tushies on this now – we’ve had roughly 6 months worth of billings that are about 2500kws lower than the old Smart meter was ringing up and given we’ve gone through the winter months with much less kws used than Hydro Ottawa’s defective Smart Meter was ringing up in Aug of 2008 when our home was pretty well as “turned off” as we could possibly get it without taking it off the grid completely – we are pretty certain that Lauren will work her magic and Hydro Ottawa will be trying to gouge someone else for their mistake somewhere along the way.

If you’re having billing issues with Hydro Ottawa stick with it because they certainly don’t have your best interest at heart – but utilize the avenues that will get you were you need to go – MPP, Media, Legal – whatever it takes – it’s money you deserve to fight for…and money they don’t deserve to have!    If you think your Smart meter is reading ridiculously high – you’re probably right, particularly if you still have a 1st Generation meter with “known” motherboard malfunctions – don’t let Hydro Ottawa tell you they’re Smart meter is reading perfectly because they are fully aware of the motherboard issues and this is why they are currently introducing 2nd Generation meters….so call em up and get yourself a new meter if you have one from 2006-2007 – particularly  if you are finding your hydro bills out of control.

My family took part in the Relay for Life in a small city this past weekend – the entire effort raised $305,000.00!!!  That was so awesome.  I was a little disappointed to see so few of my husband’s family out and active in this effort given that they have a mom, brother and sister in law who passed away from cancer – but next year I have a solution – I’ll just contact everyone – door to door and yank em out and get them up for even 1/2 an hour show up – least they can do right?  My family drove 2 hours to get to the Relay – walked most of the night – then drove 2 hours back home so all I can say is I think anyone who lives just 10 minutes from the activities can give at least a 1/2 hour of their time for this great cause!

Well, that’s about it at this end – tons more I could add but apparently I have children who are fading away for lack of “instant” food 😉 so it’s out to the grocery store to ensure they keep up their strength – after all, they still need to clean their rooms!

Have a great day everyone – enjoy it to the fullest – like the Nickelback song – If today was your Last Day – you want to ensure you do it up right!  I’ll try to get in here and update some tutorials and jewelry finds for you – schedules, schedules…have to learn how to work with those! 😉

Take care,

Akaiya