Re-connected...

After two weeks, my phone works again.  It was a lousy day, I couldn't find a place to call from. 

In the erroneous assumption that 'everyone has a handy' (cell phone), I've become the exception to the rule, and there aren't any telephone booths any more out on the streets, which is probably saving the telecom loads of money.  But cells are prohibitavely expensive.    And am old fashioned and like my land-line.

So I wanted to use a turkish call center, but they weren't open, and landed at the ho-tel.  The telephone cell we used to have got turned into a trash closet for tools and stuff.  But a former colleague was there and so I could use his...  it was a toll-free number, after all.

Nothing much has changed on the surface, but I happen to know that there is a lot going on beneath the surface.  I was just glad for the connection and right things.

Am disgruntled that my provider can turn a connection OFF if payment is late, but aren't courteous enough to automatically turn it ON once the payment certification reaches them. 

Tja, well, that won't happen again....
 

Rigamarole

Huh   I just wanted to call my relatives shortly to find out if they were ok, and....  whaddaya know...  my connection was 'temporarily' cut off.  This is 'interesting', in that I had gone to the bank this morning, had paid up the money I had owed the company, which was actually a nominal sum, had faxed the receipts to the office, and called them to verify....

Only to learn that sending the receipts with a bank stamp on them hadn't been enough, and I should have gone back to get a special confirmation to have the bank send them.  (shaking head here).

As today was world bank day, and I had an asthma attack getting there and back, there was no way I was gonna go back and do it all over again.

Na ja, it will be rectified within a day or so.  And I can only wonder whether all is well out on the coast.  So much for good intentions.

They drive me crazy.





 

Sandy and Rachel Maddow's modest proposal

Which is what I've been whining about for years now.  But oh yeah...  she lived in England on a scholarship to Oxford, I think it was. 

Our power lines are underground.  We haven't had massive power outages since I can't remember when.  And then they were local, or because lightning hit a power plant locally, and I 'think' the last time it happened...  we were down for almost an hour. 

I have asked this question repeatedly, and one of the more interesting answers I received was:  'well, our town discussed it, but a lot of people didn't want the lines running underneath their property.' 

This was one of the most amazing rationales for not doing what is obviously sensible and so goes back to some sort of selfishness and greed, it left me spitless. 

So...  you get increasingly frequent freak storms, and people lose their electricity for over a week at a time, and what happens?  They put up the lines above ground again thinking that some tree won't fall on them in a storm. 

 The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. 

I was relieved to find that I'm not the crazy one.  Rachel seems to agree with me.  You can find it here beginning at about the five minute mark. 

But then again...  some people think she's crazy.  Time will tell, but the practice here has shown she is right.

Just a short pause...

Update:  it seems my telephone call to the provider was more successful than I thought.  Am back on-line, and can take care of all the crap on Nov. 2.  Gawwd.

My internet connection got capped yesterday.  Long story, it had to do with my bank account not having the funds to cover the automatic withdrawal which came at the end of the month.  Since I couldn't cover the outstanding amount within the date they set...  well, the provider capped my connection.

It should be taken care of and reopened after November 1st, which is a 'horriday'. 

Am really trying to have service back by election night.

In the meanwhile, found an interesting series of feature-length films based on the Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels.  They seemgly are in their 11th season in England, but as far as I know, have never run on the tee-vee here.    You can find them on the YouTube by typing Poirot in the search mask.

They are fairly true to the novels, and quite enjoyable. 

At any rate I hope to be on-line by election nite. 

My former colleague was nice enough to let me do this on-line.