A rant against CCT Boatphone!

We have now made about 4 trips into CCT Boatphone attempting to change our packages to one of the newer (of course a lot cheaper!) packages. I mean, Bazza has sat and waited for hours, and the person (apparently the ONLY person on the island who can accomplish this gigantic task) is never in. To tell you the truth, I call this bullshit.
The first time we gave up after being told that we had to apply to have it changed, and go to another place, and we could only change it IF we signed a new contract AND we had had our service for over two years so our last contract had expired. We had had our service for over ten years, so I guess the old service was expired. We put it off until the next time we had a good spread of time off for this process AND the packages they offer new people are just getting cheaper and cheaper so the one we have it almost three times as expensive as the current one!
The second time he waited for well over an hour and still could not get served.
The third time after waiting for about twenty minutes he was told (by the security girl no less as there was noone manning the desk) that the person was not there he had to talk to.
CCT Boatphone are you reading this? This is horrible, despicable service, AND you just put out an article in the newspaper saying that you were "focusing your efforts on KEEPING your current customers instead of getting new ones!" We have given CCT Boatphone SSSOOOO much money over the years and you hear stories like ours all over the place!
Then we went to the banks, yep, lets go on about that for a bit... Just had to make a check deposit at Banco. The ATM was out of order, went in the bank, well they were practically swinging from the rafters there was so many people in line. Went outside to the ATM machine at the drive through, dodging cars, with a few other people trying to do the same. By the time it was my turn the people in the car in front of me walking said it was not working! Went back inside, no line no shorter, went away to spend an hour in the line at the Scotia Bank, and then back to Banco to repeat the entire process I had done an hour ago to finally deposit my one check in the bank. Always fun when you feel like crap!
On another note, diesel was "only" $3.28 a gallon at Delta Dock today. Nice to see that is coming down, I don't have to cringe quite so much when I see our diesel bills every charter.... We took off over to Salt Island afterwards, and Bazza decided that Simeon would do man overboard drills on the way over so he was put on helm..
This is the man...

and Bazza even picked up the mooring balls again!

Speaking of Bazza he came home with pressure cookers today. Either it was a very exotic Xmas present for me or it was for his ROV! Of course it was for his ROV!! He spent the rest of the day threading blue spaghetti through holes for those who are following this procedure...

I am waiting for the day this thing finally hits the water, the man has more patience then I do!

Nice sunset over Peter Island tonight....

and to close off this entry from the sniffly snuffly one, a nice picture of a triggerfish....