Blog Number 230

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I do not have a lot of time for a blog entry today.  My DSL service is not turned on for my home yet so this entry is from work where I am finished putting in a few Saturday hours.  My phone service IS turned on however.  Once I signed up for phone / DSL service, I dug out a phone and plugged it into the wall jack at home so I could check from time to time to see if the service was turned on.  AT&T gave me my new phone number but of course it is useless until the whole thing is hooked up.  My wife called me from home yesterday afternoon to tell me that the phone was indeed turned on.  She did not find this out by occasionally picking up the receiver and listening for a dial tone.  No, she found this out when she came home from running some errands and heard a phone ringing in our house.  Mind you it has been over 2 months since we have heard this sound and so it seemed odd to her at first and could not register what was really happening.  Once she ran to the back of the house where the phone was, she answered the phone (of course).  It was not me on the end of the line nor was it AT&T confirming service activation.  No, it was someone wanted to sign us up for a credit card!  Our first call was a (insert expletive here) telemarketer.  Now I remember why I did not hook the phone up immediately when I moved.  As of this morning, DSL was not working so hopefully it will be up and going by Monday.  Have a nice rest of the weekend (mine starts now).

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon