Wow this is amazingly complicated to coordinate with all the service providers.
Bellsouth woke me up at 7:30 AM to let me know that he was putting in my new line outside. Couldn't go back to sleep so guess I'll be drinking a lot of espresso today.
Phone guy wanted to just disconnect the existing line and use it for the new line. I had to tell him to leave the old line alone and to put in the new line as a second line. Seemed easy enough since I have a six line box outside my house and was only using one line. He seemed very surprised that I would take care of moving the two wires to the new line and that I had cleaned up all the wires in the box outside my home yesterday. Probably didn't help that he had woken me up and I was in a nightgown with big bed hair just looking all wrong.
Called Earthlink to have my ADSL service moved to the new number. Should have never mentioned Vonage to them because it confused them and they started going on about how they can't move DSL to a Vonage line. Finally explained that the new line was from Bellsouth and it was the old line that was getting moved to Vonage. Earthlink said it would take about a week to move the DSL. It was like pulling teeth to get Earthlink's Order ID number from them that Vonage wanted.
Sent an email to Vonage with Earthlink's confirmation number so that Vonage can begin moving my number to them. I wonder what the next issue will be in moving my phone number to Vonage...
Been using Vonage since yesterday and love it. It's really nice having calls ring both my home and cell at the same time plus every number that I call is now a local number.
Bought gas last night and I see it is once again over $3 a gallon. Good thing that I work at home and barely drive but I do need to buy almost 200 gallons before the start of hurricane season.
Instead of going to the gym I went out back with an electric pole saw and cut down all the really tall palms that were within reach of my house if a storm blows them around really hard. Still need to drag all the cuttings on the east side of my backyard to the front for bulk trash pickup. I also did a few of the mango tree branches that were hanging over my house. I'm going to be like so ready for this year's hurricane season. No more branches falling on my house. I still have a few more mango tree branches in my backyard and a few palms in my front yard to do. Going to try to get everything done this month. The whole west front side of my property behind my hedge is now a giant pile of tree trimmings that I need to somehow get to the street for bulk trash pickup.
The clouds have moved out and the sky is blue so it is looking to be a beautiful day today.
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