Oh, I know...I live in Austin now! :bounce:
Pretty much incommunicado too. The phone and dsl bundle which I'd ordered back on the first and which should have been activated on the 6th and the 8th, respectively, actually didn't get activated until the 13th and 20th. Seems the previous tenant never requested to be disconnected and the phone company just kept apologizing for the delay and pushing my activation another day or two into the future. My bad was in not telling them there was a dial tone on my phone jack but it wasn't mine, and their bad was in not telling me why they weren't hooking me up. Once they told me
why they were delaying it took a grand total of ten minutes to get the landlord to give 'em the go-ahead to disconnect that other line and hook mine up.
Unfortunately, in the confusion the dsl order somehow got dropped. I asked if there was a still a two-day lag between the activation dates since the phone was supposed to have been on way back when Noah was a cabin-boy, and the phone person said yes, no dsl until the 15th at 8pm.
Needless to say when it didn't happen Friday the 15th at 8pm, there was no one there to solve the problem until Monday. If the dsl didn't work I had 24/7 help but (the techs gently explained) since the line hadn't been requested I didn't have a dsl
problem...I just didn't have dsl. :crazy:
Comes Monday the 18th and my dilemma is finally made clear to the telco and they request dsl for me from provisioning which initiated, I'm happy to report, the final of the two day waits. Wednesday night I toddle home from work and, bingo! No more flashing (mockingly flashing) red dsl light on the wee box.
So here I am in Austin, none the worse for wear...except after I grabbed my first paycheck from my new job and headed out west on 71 with a big ol' smile on my mug to go see the family back in Abilene when suddenly the fella on the NPR tells me my new job's been put up for sale. Kinda took the shine off seeing my two sweethearts again, seein' as how I'd just taken a year lease on a one bedroom in the big city based on this job and suddenly I had this new steaming pile of uncertainty on my plate.
I feel a lot better about the situation now, but that first weekend home with no one to really talk to about it was pretty sad-making. I'm fairly sure the job will stay, and if it doesn't well...there's always Abilene, the city where some'll ask you what church you attend before asking your name because if the first one's wrong they won't need to ask the second.
Oh yeah...that
CapMetro bus pass I was so proud of that I'd ordered before even leaving Abilene? I used it on my first day at work. My daughter asked me to call after I took the bus to tell her how it was and I was so jazzed when I, ummm...de-bussed...that I called her while walking the two blocks or so to work from the bus-stop.
Nearly as I can figure when I pulled my cellphone out of my shirt pocket, that must be when my shiny new bus pass fluttered to the sidewalk unnoticed. Ten dollar bus ride. Never even got the round-trip out of it. :dunce:
Oh, you bet I bought a new one...this one will even get me on the expresses. Anyone wondering why Cap Metro is talking strike now? I'm telling you right now it's because I've got that damned pass. :7
Anyway...
September's good for me. I'm getting weekends off for now...and thanks for listenin'!
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Hey y'all...bedways is the right ways for this one. I'm about a sleepyhead right now. I'll check back in tomorrow. Promise!
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