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May 26, 2005

Phones, Trams, and The Internet

From Michelle, Wondering Why Me?

Ever so long ago, I did several blogs about my trouble with trams, phones, and just about everything else going wrong that could go wrong with anything when you are in a new country and calling any services for help is, gasp, TEN CENTS PER MINUTE and usually involves billions of hours listening to piped music at your own expense.

Well, here we go again...

Is It Just Me, Or What?

The Tram

Owkey. So, about 2 months ago some of you may remember that the tram line that runs near my apartment was suspended because the town is installing superduper new trams. You know, it was only going to be for a couple of weeks and, like the bionic man, they would be stronger, faster, better than they were before.

Well, we still don't have the stronger, faster, better trams...

The Phones

Owkey. So, I've had red tape problems in the past with (a) getting a phone line in the apartment, and (b) buying the wrong kind of phone for my apartment (who knew there was more than one kind of connection), so I ended up not having a cordless phone but one that is attached to the wall and then you are immobile while you chat to whomever you are chatting to?

Well, Oh Patient One and I were in large electronic store recently and we found cordless phones with excactly the right kind of connection for our apartment! Yay! Our days of being immobile whilst chatting were over!

We installed the batteries, we plugged them in, we allowed the appropriate amount of time for them to charge, we followed the instructions to the letter and...yeah, mucho time to charge later they still don't work and we cannot figure out why not!

The Internet

Mysteriously, I have been without home access for most of the week. No idea why. My provider insisted that my connection was working (when I finally got through after hours of that piped music at my own expense), and just when I thought it was oh no, back to the Internet Cafe for me, my Internet connection began to work again! Yeah!

So I don't have a cordless phone, and I don't have a tram service...but at least I can get online again!

Ah, the important things in life...

Michelle

Posted by Michelle at 11:57 AM