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Blair Makes It Better

I have the same relationship with my husband that many of us have with car mechanics. We take our car in because it's making a funny noise, only the minute the mechanic slides behind the driver's seat, the funny noise disappears and he's left looking at you with an expression of mild concern for your mental well-being. 

Same thing in the Harris house. If you read yesterday's entry, you know I was trapped at home with no phone and no e-mail. I went to yoga last night to calm down and before I left I checked the phone--still open on the other end and we couldn't call out. Blair gets home, picks up the phone, sets it down, and says, "I've got a dialtone."

On the one hand, bless him for fixing the problem. On the other...are you kidding me? There was a problem! There was no dialtone ALL DAY. Please, Mr. Mechanic, I'm not insane and making the noise up. It really was there..

Sigh. Anyway, Blair also fixed e-mail in a jiff. I had deleted a server link and it took less than 5 minutes to restore it. I'm a happy camper this morning with phone and e-mail.

We're still studying the "no signal" problem from our cell phone and cordless phones though. Blair wonders if the wi-fi that came with the new Macs has anything to do with it. When we got the Mac's is pretty much when the phone problems began. I'm going into Verizon today to get a new cell phone and see if that does anything.

Meanwhile, just happy to have returned to the 21st century.

Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 08:12AM by Registered CommenterDena Harris in , , | Comments2 Comments

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The same thing used to happen to me at work. I would spend hours trying to figure out something on the PC, then when i the tech guy came to help me, the problem was gone. So i know how it is. Glad to hear everything is back to normal. God bless technology.
August 12, 2008 at 10:53AM | Unregistered CommenterMariela
Our IT guys at work made us remove cordless phones due to interference with wireless internet service. Something about a frequency problem. Just some food for thought.
August 16, 2008 at 02:44AM | Unregistered CommenterJC

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