Thursday, October 23. 2008
from Roadtown to Harbourview....
After being pretty unsuccessful on our St thomas trip, I followed it up by being fairly unsuccessful on my town day in Roadtown. I had stops at Labor Department, Immigration, Scotia Bank, First Caribbean Bank and DHL. 4 out of the 5 were second or third trips to get things done. I was hoping to finish up today. Silly me. At the end of the day I have to go back to 4 out of the 5 places next week (but not before about Thursday is the earliest day on some of the them!)
Labor Department, no my renewal is not ready, Labor Commissioner is off island. This has been about 6 trips in now, some years it is ready in days, other years, well....
Immigration: Yes, you should have came in and extended your work permit the day after it ran out, but just hold on to it now and see if your permit is ready next week.
Scotia Bank, Yes, you can order checks, but I have to send it to the Commercial Department and they will call you. No, they cannot be mailed to you, you will have to come in and pick them up.
First Caribbean Bank, No, your business checks are not ready, and WHY did you order them online! They take forever if you do that and we cannot track them. I mentioned that i was surprised at this as I ordered them from First Caribbean Banks online banking...She would call and check, but the lines were down for them right now. And don't even ask about the closing down the credit card that I have been attempting to do now for about 7 weeks (this was the third trip in, there will be more)
Hey, DHL happily took my check. Surprised though as they have a box number for us, but apparently they are not given any money for stamps, they just drop off bills so they never quite know what to do with our bills!
Then to cap it all off, I walked by one of the hair salons, and saw several staff looking at flowers but not dealing with any customers so I walked in and asked if I could get a haircut, cheerfully. And the answer from two women was "no" in unison. That was it, no come back later, maybe tomorrow, next year or anything, just "no". I thought about asking the follow up question and then I thought, why bother. Next week!
The Dive gear is getting a going over on the boat...By the end of the season most of them seem to have knots in them which means they need some attention, and a new lid for the life rafts is being fashioned....
We then said good bye to Roadtown and made our way up to Harbourview, with vehicle fulls of "stuff" out of the locker that is coming into the "workshop" up here. I drove up and wanted to stop the car in the middle of the road on the hill to take a picture of Promenade as it is a view I don't normally get but i did not think the cars behind me would appreciate it so I settled for taking a picture of the boat coming in,,,
It is my sisters birthday today! She is 39 years young (really!) so Happy Birthday Sydney!
Bazza sent me this picture of an "oops". Don't know the circumstances, this oops was on Pompano Beach in Florida. And we did hear from our friends Sheila and Bob of Paradise Connections in SXM on their boat "so it goes" they were fine, although someone dragged down on them in the lagoon and there 5 ft draft boat ended up in a couple feet of water! No worries, one wet bed and one pair of glasses later and they and their boat were fine!
Labor Department, no my renewal is not ready, Labor Commissioner is off island. This has been about 6 trips in now, some years it is ready in days, other years, well....
Immigration: Yes, you should have came in and extended your work permit the day after it ran out, but just hold on to it now and see if your permit is ready next week.
Scotia Bank, Yes, you can order checks, but I have to send it to the Commercial Department and they will call you. No, they cannot be mailed to you, you will have to come in and pick them up.
First Caribbean Bank, No, your business checks are not ready, and WHY did you order them online! They take forever if you do that and we cannot track them. I mentioned that i was surprised at this as I ordered them from First Caribbean Banks online banking...She would call and check, but the lines were down for them right now. And don't even ask about the closing down the credit card that I have been attempting to do now for about 7 weeks (this was the third trip in, there will be more)
Hey, DHL happily took my check. Surprised though as they have a box number for us, but apparently they are not given any money for stamps, they just drop off bills so they never quite know what to do with our bills!
Then to cap it all off, I walked by one of the hair salons, and saw several staff looking at flowers but not dealing with any customers so I walked in and asked if I could get a haircut, cheerfully. And the answer from two women was "no" in unison. That was it, no come back later, maybe tomorrow, next year or anything, just "no". I thought about asking the follow up question and then I thought, why bother. Next week!
The Dive gear is getting a going over on the boat...By the end of the season most of them seem to have knots in them which means they need some attention, and a new lid for the life rafts is being fashioned....
We then said good bye to Roadtown and made our way up to Harbourview, with vehicle fulls of "stuff" out of the locker that is coming into the "workshop" up here. I drove up and wanted to stop the car in the middle of the road on the hill to take a picture of Promenade as it is a view I don't normally get but i did not think the cars behind me would appreciate it so I settled for taking a picture of the boat coming in,,,
It is my sisters birthday today! She is 39 years young (really!) so Happy Birthday Sydney!
Bazza sent me this picture of an "oops". Don't know the circumstances, this oops was on Pompano Beach in Florida. And we did hear from our friends Sheila and Bob of Paradise Connections in SXM on their boat "so it goes" they were fine, although someone dragged down on them in the lagoon and there 5 ft draft boat ended up in a couple feet of water! No worries, one wet bed and one pair of glasses later and they and their boat were fine!
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