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18685. Ms. No - 2/24/2006 12:13:57 AM Here's another problem: I have Vonage. I don't WANT any other phone company. If I get DSL they have to run it through a land line that I don't want to use. I need to be able to get a DSL line and not use the phone line part of it which I don't know that SBC will do because they want you to use all their crap.
Honestly, if I can't get what I want I may decide to just do without. I may cancel it all and just go back to using my cell phone. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars a month to companies I don't like for crap I don't want.
I refuse. 18686. judithathome - 2/24/2006 1:23:48 AM Not trying to take up for SBC but I have used them for DSL for a long time (years) and have had exactly one outage...weather related...and they fixed it in half a day. Never have a problem with the DSL dropping off suddenly, never have hidden charges...I called once and griped about having to pay more than an introductory deal and they cut my rate down to that lower one....I have no gripes with them at all.
Same with Dish Network...everyone told me I'd regret dropping cable and I haven't regretted it for ONE MINUTE. When we have severe storms, the TV might be out for a few minutes...unlike cable that was frequently out for DAYS...no probelms with Dish whatsoever.
(Now both will tank for a week, just you watch!) 18687. Ms. No - 2/24/2006 1:38:46 AM hahaha, no, I never had service problems with my DSL and if it had been available when I moved to my current place I would've gotten it. I just don't want them NOW especially since they're hooking up with AT&T.
I like Vonage. It's great. I never want another phone carrier, but I have to have something to carry that line and if I'm going to have a land line anyway then it's not cost effective for me to also have Vonage since I can make my long distance calls for free already on my cell phone.
I'm just irritable. I'll figure something out. 18688. arkymalarky - 2/24/2006 2:31:29 AM I LOVE Dish Network, but I don't like SBC. I don't hate them, but I don't want to have to do business with them for all my communication, since I have Cingular cell phones and Bell landline phones. But where we are, I can't even get online through Dish Network. They say I will eventually, but I have no clue when. I don't know why--we're much less remote than friends and family I know who have DSL.
I'm probably about to go to prepaid cell phones, too. Bob already has, and he really likes it. It's way cheaper and with Mose in college we just don't use them much. 18689. arkymalarky - 2/24/2006 2:32:41 AM Dish does go out here, even with a little wind or rain, but it's much better than rabbit ears or an outside antenna, which was our only other option. 18690. alistairconnor - 2/24/2006 12:13:07 PM Yeah, I worked out recently that I was wasting money on my cell phone. I'm a very occasional user, I'm going to switch to prepaid.
And it's really one of life's mysteries how I manage to be so ordinary and yet so far out of the mainstream : 98% of France has cell coverage, but I seem to spend most of my life in the uncovered bits. 18691. arkymalarky - 2/25/2006 12:18:32 AM That's me. And like I said, we're not even that remote. We're only about 1/4 mile from a state highway and about 5 miles from an interstate. 18692. judithathome - 2/25/2006 1:34:01 AM My MRI took 45 minutes and I don't think I've ever been that completely still for that length of time ever in my life.
I will find out something Monday or Tuesday...well, actually, I already found something out because I read my chart and saw the X-ray report. It said I have a new fracture at the site of the old fracture. So I don't know why I needed the damned MRI today if the doctor already knows that. 18693. arkymalarky - 2/25/2006 2:36:13 AM Damn. Do you think you'll have to go back into a cast? That's awful. 18694. judithathome - 2/25/2006 7:20:11 PM I don't see why the boot cast wouldn't be enough. The thing I'm worried about is some drastic measure like rebreaking it or putting a rod and pins in it.
I would think anyone could see that if it's healed weirdly thus far with just a spiral fracture, doing anything new to it would cause it to re-heal just as badly. 18695. arkymalarky - 2/26/2006 12:21:01 AM Surely they'd make a determination like that based on how you feel, and wouldn't do something like that except as a last resort. At least I hope not--as I'm sure you do, too. 18696. arkymalarky - 2/26/2006 12:53:55 AM I just got back from class about an hour ago (we have two all-day Saturday classes), and I am having very warm and fuzzy feelings about the Mote. I really appreciate Alistair, Jay, Wabbit, Pelle, and MsNo for making this place go, and every one of you who post in here and/or lurk--however much or little.
I really credit the years I've spent on this forum interacting with a broad variety of intelligent people as having had a real and significant impact on my approach to information in general, as well as to presenting it and discussing it, both on paper and with others. And in all the activism and political work I've done in the past three years, what I have been able to gain from the Mote in the last ten years or so has been indispensible. 18697. anomie - 2/26/2006 1:13:27 AM Hi Arky. Nice words. I think of you all as friends I've never met.
Judith...I wish you well on that leg. You've been a real trooper about it from what I can tell. It doesn't seem to keep you down for long. 18698. arkymalarky - 2/26/2006 2:02:05 AM Hey Anomie. I feel the same. Though I have met a few. 18699. wonkers2 - 2/26/2006 2:34:17 AM I agree. The Mote is a bit of a community in contrast to Slate's Fray where there are too many posters for a community spirit to develop. 18700. Ulgine Barrows - 2/26/2006 7:33:10 AM 18674. alistairconnor - 2/23/2006 5:33:15 PM
The SAP consultants?
Seen this?
http://www.despair.com/consulting.html 18701. Ulgine Barrows - 2/26/2006 7:37:58 AM And dont forget to click on the
Perfect for
- Oh, nobody
link on that page, several times....Arthur Anderson even came up, once.
18702. iiibbb - 2/27/2006 8:59:08 PM Yikes...
I sent out a job application a couple of weeks ago, and I've heard they've taken the step of having my references to write recommendations for me.
Very mixed feelings about this job.
(1) It's probably one of the best fits for my skill set. It would be an asst. professor position.
(2) It is intimindating that I would be entering the tenure process somewhere. There is a lot of competition for funding out there.
(3) I'm in a very interesting soft-money project here that was extended another year.
(4) I love where I live, and both my fiance and I would like to stay here the rest of our lives. The culture of my department is such that my chances to get something permanent here would require that I leave and come back one day... but that requires leaving.
(5) The job is in her hometown where her parents still live (coincidence)... the prospect of this has both postives and negatives.
Stress. I don't know what I'm going to do if they offer this thing to me. My 5% superstitious nature predicts that because I'm not 100% sure about this job that I will be offered it. 18703. wonkers2 - 2/27/2006 9:22:32 PM Suggestion: don't give them your Mote moniker. They are probably Googling you as we speak. :-) 18704. thoughtful - 2/27/2006 9:23:49 PM Decisions, decisions. Never very easy. Unfortunately, when you decide, if you don't like the outcome, life doesn't allow for a "do over".
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