Bill's Blog

BILL BLOG Friday, August 21, 2026   And a good Friday morning to you. Got a guitar ready to be loaded into a van this morning for a trip to Mountain City, Tennessee, with Linda Davis and Lang Scott in a few hours. 89 degrees for the high in Music City, but cooler in Mountain City. The high there will only be 77 degrees, mixed with some rain.      YESTERDAY It was mostly a day of tying up loose ends and getting ready for this road trip to East Tennessee. Running through some songs, pre-loading some equipment, and making sure I have all my road ducks in a row.   But I also devoted a couple more frustrating hours trying to fix my new iPhone 17 situation, which has been a cluster, you know what, since I upgraded. Yesterday, I found out that the process and paperwork are so screwed up that I have to send my brand-new phone, which is working great, back to AT&T, and they’ll be sending me a new one, and I’ll have to download all my data before I ...

BILL BLOG Thursday, August 20, 2026   Thursday has brought some needed rain to Nashville. In fact, the skies are making a loud rumble as I begin the Blog today. Despite the rain, we will hit 90 today.   YESTERDAY My Wednesday was filled with troubleshooting. I upgraded my iPhone with AT&T, and that’s been a nightmare. I won’t tell you the entire story, but I did learn that you don’t want to upgrade or buy your phone from just any AT&T store. You want to make sure you go to a “corporate” store. Much less red tape and hassle, which I learned the hard way.   And then our internet kept going in and out, which put me on the phone forever with an Xfinity person or two or three, trying to figure out the problem. One finally did figure it out. But it was an ordeal.   Finally, I had a Doctor’s appointment, sat in the lobby for the longest time before a nurse was kind enough to announce to all of us in line that they were running one hour behind. Sigh...