You know, as much as I enjoy the holiday season, I’ll be glad it’s when it’s over and so that I can start buying stuff for myself again without worrying that someone’s already bought it for me for Christmas or my birthday.
Beep bwoop bwoop beeep bwooooooooop
I’ve managed to figure out what my dial-up problem was. I should have guessed this earlier but I’d forgotten about some changes I made to my local phone plan which seemed to have done away with the ‘disable call-wasting’ feature or changed what you have to dial first to disable it. After taking that out of my modem dialing string, everything was just honky dory.
So I’m back online at home now and will stop silently bad mouthing Earthlink support off-line for my own stupidity.
They’re my toys
At work I have a number of phantoms that I use for various purposes. The techs always know i’m up to something when I roll up with one them. I call them my patients.
There is one set in particular that the techs always give me grief over, the solid and fillable breast attachments that go along with my cardiac phantom. They always get a good laugh when I pull them out to work with. “Playin’ with your boobs again?” and other cracks like that.
All in good fun though I suppose. They are kind of unusual tools to work with.
Where oh where has my dial-up gone?
Ok, so for the past two days my Earthlink dial-up has been giving me nothing but busy signals. Checking the Network status page hasn’t yielded any information in my area (maybe I’m the only one here using Earthlink dial-up?) and the first response from support just told me to try the three numbers I’ve already been trying. Gee, thanks.
No net access from home, so I have to get my fix at work. But I haven’t been at my desk much lately, so there’s not much of that either. Hopefully there will be some resolution by tonight or the weekend.
Condo-ification
According to one of the maintenance guys for the apartment complex I live in, it might be getting turned into condominiums sometime in the near future. So that means either we’ll be moving again sooner than planned, or we’ll be buying sooner than planned.
It seems to be a growing trend around here (and probably elsewhere) for apartment complexes to turn into condos. An apartment complex down the road from us turned into condos earlier in the summer.
I suppose if the price is reasonable, then buying is definitely something to consider. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.