December 22, 2008
Seriously... Are They Afraid of the Competition?
Ah the fun continues.
It seems, when my husband called the electric company today, that we are on "a list". The person he talked to had no idea why anyone was told they would be here on Friday to fix the wires.
No, they aren't giving any time line at all. The only thing they'll say is that we are "on the list and they'll get to us". Might be tomorrow, might be in a few weeks. We have no clue (nor do they apparently).
This being the case, I finally set up a Skype account. I paid for one month so I can call anyone with a regular phone (too bad everyone isn't just on skype - it'd be free). And I can call young son on Christmas Day and harass him.
However, no one can call me from a phone because I don't have a number (they cost extra and I only want to use this thing until my phone is back). Of course anyone else using skype can "call" me, but that's online.
I've been running like mad all day - back and forth. Spent over an hour on my cell at Starbucks this morning before finding out that there was no line repair imminent.
After setting up Skype, I needed to call the regular phone company to postpone their service visit. Well, why not use skype... then I don't have to leave the house and sit in a parking lot.
Except that Skype doesn't work! I tried to dial the number 5 times (I'm nothing if not persistent). It kept telling me "the number you are dialing does not exist". Wha????
Of course it exists, it belongs to a friggin phone company! Just connect me.
But no, I had to drive down to the local farmstand and sit in my car in the cold and call instead. (I need a good headbanging icon to insert here).
I couldn't put the repair on hold (how silly is that) no, the most they could do was push the repair date out. This means I'll be having to call after Christmas if the line is still down - I expect it will be.
All this ticky-tacky calling back and forth is most annoying. There must be a better way. Sheesh!
It seems, when my husband called the electric company today, that we are on "a list". The person he talked to had no idea why anyone was told they would be here on Friday to fix the wires.
No, they aren't giving any time line at all. The only thing they'll say is that we are "on the list and they'll get to us". Might be tomorrow, might be in a few weeks. We have no clue (nor do they apparently).
This being the case, I finally set up a Skype account. I paid for one month so I can call anyone with a regular phone (too bad everyone isn't just on skype - it'd be free). And I can call young son on Christmas Day and harass him.
However, no one can call me from a phone because I don't have a number (they cost extra and I only want to use this thing until my phone is back). Of course anyone else using skype can "call" me, but that's online.
I've been running like mad all day - back and forth. Spent over an hour on my cell at Starbucks this morning before finding out that there was no line repair imminent.
After setting up Skype, I needed to call the regular phone company to postpone their service visit. Well, why not use skype... then I don't have to leave the house and sit in a parking lot.
Except that Skype doesn't work! I tried to dial the number 5 times (I'm nothing if not persistent). It kept telling me "the number you are dialing does not exist". Wha????
Of course it exists, it belongs to a friggin phone company! Just connect me.
But no, I had to drive down to the local farmstand and sit in my car in the cold and call instead. (I need a good headbanging icon to insert here).
I couldn't put the repair on hold (how silly is that) no, the most they could do was push the repair date out. This means I'll be having to call after Christmas if the line is still down - I expect it will be.
All this ticky-tacky calling back and forth is most annoying. There must be a better way. Sheesh!
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December 21, 2008
Tuesday? Maybe...
So I called the phone company today from my cell. After wending my way through the maze of answering systems and finally getting hold of a real person, I guess we were right, the phone company won't do anything with the phone wire until the power line is connected back to the house.
The earliest is Tuesday. That is if the electric company peeps get here tomorrow. I am seriously tempted to head to Starbucks with the laptop tomorrow and work from there for a few hours so I can call people with my cell and not have connection issues.
Honestly I was looking at Skype today, but I guess what we've got going is okay until the regular line is back up. Of course if the regular line isn't back, we won't be calling young son in Germany on Christmas day because it would be just our luck, we'd get connected and then the cell would drop the signal (even in a high coverage area).
So far this has not been a banner holiday season for us. I have totally given up on doing any Christmas cards... really, what do I say...
I'll probably send out New Years letters to people who haven't heard from me in a while. I think that's about the best I can do at the moment.
The earliest is Tuesday. That is if the electric company peeps get here tomorrow. I am seriously tempted to head to Starbucks with the laptop tomorrow and work from there for a few hours so I can call people with my cell and not have connection issues.
Honestly I was looking at Skype today, but I guess what we've got going is okay until the regular line is back up. Of course if the regular line isn't back, we won't be calling young son in Germany on Christmas day because it would be just our luck, we'd get connected and then the cell would drop the signal (even in a high coverage area).
So far this has not been a banner holiday season for us. I have totally given up on doing any Christmas cards... really, what do I say...
I'll probably send out New Years letters to people who haven't heard from me in a while. I think that's about the best I can do at the moment.
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December 19, 2008
No Phone
No wire dudes showed. It's snowing like mad. And there were work equipment issues today.
I made 2 trips out of the house today to use the cell phone. The third time I had to call someone, I stood in my bedroom holding the thing up in the air. It disconnected 3 times, but perseverence meant I at least finished the conversation (even though I couldn't help fix the problem we were talking about).
All in all, it's been a hell of a day. I think we're up to 6+ inches of snow over the last 4 hours and it's still coming down at a pretty good clip.
Tomorrow morning I'll be trying to "fix" via a reboot, the computer that decided to lose its mind. I'd do it tonight (because I am so not a morning person) but there are jobs that must finish before I can mess about with the innards of the OS.
Therefore, I shall now go drink wine and watch television.
I made 2 trips out of the house today to use the cell phone. The third time I had to call someone, I stood in my bedroom holding the thing up in the air. It disconnected 3 times, but perseverence meant I at least finished the conversation (even though I couldn't help fix the problem we were talking about).
All in all, it's been a hell of a day. I think we're up to 6+ inches of snow over the last 4 hours and it's still coming down at a pretty good clip.
Tomorrow morning I'll be trying to "fix" via a reboot, the computer that decided to lose its mind. I'd do it tonight (because I am so not a morning person) but there are jobs that must finish before I can mess about with the innards of the OS.
Therefore, I shall now go drink wine and watch television.
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December 16, 2008
One of Those Days
If you wandered over to my smugmug ice storm pictures, you might have run across this one:
With the following caption:
Where these branches are is where we usually park the minivan. It's been in for repairs or these branches would have totalled it. Had to cut them with a chainsaw before we could move them.
The minivan is a bit over 10 years old and it's been excellent for hauling all sorts of stuff around (including our very tall son who was able to sit in the back seats with no problem at all). Not to mention, it's all paid for! So last month we decided to get some body rust fixed on it. One of the shock towers was rusting through - a not uncommon problem with this type of minivan.
We had taken it over to the body shop and, as these things go, it was still there when we left town for the funeral. Turns out, as the picture above shows, it's a very good thing we didn't have it back. All that money would have been wasted when those limbs caved in the roof. With the age of the vehicle, that kind of damage would have totalled the thing.
So, last night we were finally able to get to the body shop and pick up the van. (I had been in to pay for it earlier in the day). Which leads to today's happenings...
Today the van key was missing...
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With the following caption:
Where these branches are is where we usually park the minivan. It's been in for repairs or these branches would have totalled it. Had to cut them with a chainsaw before we could move them.
The minivan is a bit over 10 years old and it's been excellent for hauling all sorts of stuff around (including our very tall son who was able to sit in the back seats with no problem at all). Not to mention, it's all paid for! So last month we decided to get some body rust fixed on it. One of the shock towers was rusting through - a not uncommon problem with this type of minivan.
We had taken it over to the body shop and, as these things go, it was still there when we left town for the funeral. Turns out, as the picture above shows, it's a very good thing we didn't have it back. All that money would have been wasted when those limbs caved in the roof. With the age of the vehicle, that kind of damage would have totalled the thing.
So, last night we were finally able to get to the body shop and pick up the van. (I had been in to pay for it earlier in the day). Which leads to today's happenings...
Today the van key was missing...
more...
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December 14, 2008
No Sign Yet
No sign that linemen are even looking at our street much less working on it. Saw the trucks one street over last night, but then they disappeared too. *sigh* Have a feeling they will do our lines dead last, then tell us we have to hire an electrician to attach the box to the house... Even though the wires aren't broken. It would fit with the rest of the mess.
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