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New excuse: time crunch

My phone service was restored almost two weeks ago. Turned out the wire outside the building (but past Verizon's demarc) was all broken up and pulled away from the house. Verizon didn't charge me, since it was outside the building and I'd already had them in telling me the problem was fixed, but he could have. This last guy was pleasant, professional, and fixed the problem, all of which was an excellent start to my Saturday.

So now we're back to me not posting for my own reasons. It comes to this: I am utterly crazed at work. We're going through the merger process, which means a lot of merging systems, databases, networks, etc., and there aren't enough IT people to keep all the plates spinning. It's been very difficult to keep up with longer term projects because we have a lot of fires to put out. I keep thinking I'm getting too old for this. I don't know how I would get through if I weren't sleeping so much better than I was last year.

Hello

Just so you know, this latest long blog silence is not the usual kind of long silence, where I can't even come up with anything uninteresting to post. No, this long silence is because my phone service (and therefore my DSL) is hosed. I'm posting this from-- well, not from home.

You may remember I have a history with Verizon. The current outage stretches back several weeks (during most of that time I had my DSL, but not phone service, so I didn't really care), due to a combination of typical Verizon service standards, my neuroses (basically, after an unsuccessful service call, I got so frustrated I couldn't call them to come back), and my heavy work schedule (I already spent one morning sitting around waiting for the service guy, I can't kill another half day this way). So I'm not sure when I'll actually get the problem fixed, although I'm becoming sufficiently aggravated that I will soon work up the energy to call Verizon again.