Wheel of Hearts
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This thing took me forever and a day to make last year. That black lacy outside border was the toughest part to come up with. That's actually one piece of a snowflake die cut. I love using punches and die cuts in unexpected ways.
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I finished photographing all my framed art last night and replacing the previous photos in my Etsy shop. My studio is now littered with the framed art that needs to be reassembled with the glass in it.
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I'm so annoyed. We have the all-in-one plan with our cable company - Internet, cable TV and digital phone service. The digital phone service has been adequate at best. Every once in a while we lose service. Sometimes rebooting the cable modem fixes it. Sometimes the cable company can reset something on their end. And sometimes they have to come out to the house to fix it.
Our plan for sometime (a year or more) has been to get rid of our land line altogether and rely on our cell phones. Over time, I've changed records (family, friends, doctors, etc.) to my cell phone number. Steve has not been doing the same, or maybe he worries he's forgotten someone. But truthfully, the only calls we ever get on our land line are telemarketers.
Once again, we could get no dial tone. I suggested to Steve that this was a sign that it's time to get rid of the land line. He's not ready.
Because my patience has worn out on this subject, Steve called Time Warner and they scheduled to come to the house yesterday afternoon. We had hoped Simon would be available to hang out here waiting but he had to work. I considered asking one of my retired parents (hi Mom & Dad!) to come here but ultimately decided I would take the afternoon off from work to be available.
Usually that's definitely not a hardship but I'm super busy at work. But I have lots of Pine Tree Designs work to do too so it wasn't a horrible plan.
The window for the repair guy's arrival was 12:00 - 4:00. The Doofus showed up at 5:00, just minutes after Steve arrived home. I let him deal with The Doofus since I was feeling less than friendly by then. Turns out the phone in Steve's old office downstairs was fried. So that was removed and we're back in business.
After dinner, I picked up the phone to retrieve any voice mail that had been left in the few days we'd been without a phone. No dial tone. Ergggh. (Surely, this must be a sign to drop our land line!) Steve traced the problem to some wiring thing The Doofus had done in error. (Okay, seriously, this must be the sign, right??)
Deep breath. It's not my problem or decision. Steve will get there when he's ready. Meanwhile, I continue to not use the land line. (Steve pays for it, if you're wondering. I would not be as charitable if it were my money.)
Thanks for letting me vent. :-)
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Our plan for sometime (a year or more) has been to get rid of our land line altogether and rely on our cell phones. Over time, I've changed records (family, friends, doctors, etc.) to my cell phone number. Steve has not been doing the same, or maybe he worries he's forgotten someone. But truthfully, the only calls we ever get on our land line are telemarketers.
Once again, we could get no dial tone. I suggested to Steve that this was a sign that it's time to get rid of the land line. He's not ready.
Because my patience has worn out on this subject, Steve called Time Warner and they scheduled to come to the house yesterday afternoon. We had hoped Simon would be available to hang out here waiting but he had to work. I considered asking one of my retired parents (hi Mom & Dad!) to come here but ultimately decided I would take the afternoon off from work to be available.
Usually that's definitely not a hardship but I'm super busy at work. But I have lots of Pine Tree Designs work to do too so it wasn't a horrible plan.
The window for the repair guy's arrival was 12:00 - 4:00. The Doofus showed up at 5:00, just minutes after Steve arrived home. I let him deal with The Doofus since I was feeling less than friendly by then. Turns out the phone in Steve's old office downstairs was fried. So that was removed and we're back in business.
After dinner, I picked up the phone to retrieve any voice mail that had been left in the few days we'd been without a phone. No dial tone. Ergggh. (Surely, this must be a sign to drop our land line!) Steve traced the problem to some wiring thing The Doofus had done in error. (Okay, seriously, this must be the sign, right??)
Deep breath. It's not my problem or decision. Steve will get there when he's ready. Meanwhile, I continue to not use the land line. (Steve pays for it, if you're wondering. I would not be as charitable if it were my money.)
Thanks for letting me vent. :-)
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Labels: Etsy, Life Update, What I'm Working On
posted by Stefani at 6:02 AM
2 Comments:
How's this for really dumb? We have digital phone but I still have my handset type phone and an old desk phone by the computer. Is that the land line you refer to?
Verizon is our cell and such an old set I wouldn't even inquire about digital coming into it.
We've had excellent service from TW. Guess we are lucky.
I would consider dumping our land line (which is via Cox Cable) and just going with cell phones, but cell phone coverage is not that good in our neighborhood -- poor sound and frequent dropped calls -- and NIMBY attitudes are keeping cell antennas out of the area -- so until cell service improves, I have to stick with our land line phone. I also have a phone line in my den, a separate land line via Verizon, but that is my work number and I am reimbursed by my employer for it (when I remember to file a claim for it... *grin* -- I'm not the best at paperwork, neither real paper nor electronic stuff).
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