Our*5th*Child called on Tuesday, from Florence, Italy. I picked up on the second ring but couldn’t hear anyone, so I soon hung up. Then he called again and got through. Turns out he'd left us a VoiceMail message the first time...even though I picked up on the second ring...? The next call was this evening from Daughter in NJ. Since then we’ve noted messed up phones. That is, our downstairs phones blink and indicate they are "in use" and we have no dial tone. Unplugging and replugging them changes nothing. Our upstairs phones had the same issue, except that when we unplug and replug them we get a dial tone. However, we have to uplug and replug them after every call.
Anybody got an idear on what the issue might be and how to unscramble it? Thanks!!
Tonight I've been working on "The Lady of the Stars." There are still an awful lot of inconsistencies that need to be sorted out and gaps that need to be filled. I doubt if it will ever get finished, which is a pity, since the premise is, pretty much, anything a boy can do, a girl can do better, especially when it comes to quests.That isn't exactly how I initially envisioned it, but that's how it's working out. I suspect the girl is even a better swordsman than the boy, though they both have rather extraordinary help. *sigh*
I've been reading Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence. Got the third book from the library today, err, yesterday, and will read for a while before going to sleep. Is anyone else familiar with this sequence? It's vaguely Arthurian, and you know I'm a pushover for anything Arthurian, however vaguely.
Cat--First they take away our ninth planet, and now they threaten to take away dark energy? I won't stand for it!
listener--glad to hear they're raising a bit of Hades about Ally's care; every patient needs an advocate in the hospital, they say. A blood sugar of 19 IS very low, if true. [A certain widely used medical lab chemistry analyzer has lately been giving erratic falsely low blood sugar results; we have one in our lab and have taken to running every blood sugar twice. Bizarre problem--never heard the like. The manufacturer sent out a warning.]
In federal court this afternoon for a pre-trial hearing on the admissibility of evidence. Hope I did my part to convince the judge to exclude some irrelevant and prejudicial testimony. A little more work at home "after" work to perhaps help some folks who have been or may yet be scr**ed over by employment drug screen bungling (not going to be easy) and reviewed some documents on an alleged DUI prescription drugs case. Will have to return the attorney's check and tell her my opinion would only harm her defense. It might have been inadvertent, but the defendant certainly did appear intoxicated by Ambien in combination with another medicine. That stuff is truly dangerous.
Edwin used to take Ambien sometimes ~~ and one morning, I woke to what looked like a huge bacon grease spill on the dining room floor. We were both puzzled. Two day's later Kennedy got almost arrested for having an accident while on it. And it occurred to both of us to do some reading. Looks like he got up in the night made something to eat with bacon, and did spill the grease. Everything else was cleaned up. Very strange and upsetting.
Pure guess from a nonexpert, but my first suspicion would be a malfunction in the central office switching equipment. Have you called the telephone company?
I never seems to occur to people that medications can impair you ability to drive, and that the law applies just as much to legal medications (including things like high-alcohol cough syrups) as to alcohol and illegal drubs.
I would personally be happy to see dark energy go away. To me, it has just never made sense. But an article I recently saw talked about how astronomical observations and cosmological observations of the Big Bang agreed about the relative proportion of baryonic matter, dark matter, and dark energy. So I'm afraid greater uncertainty in the cosmological observations isn't enough to send it away.
Only thing that could be better is a promise that she'll be in remission the rest of her life -- and promises like that don't exist in this world. So this IS as JOYOUS as it gets!! I know one mommy who's going to sleep very well tonight. (And hopefully, daddy and Ally, too, lol! )
There's a new feature on Library Thing whereby, when you're entering a book, you can check a checkbox to share the entry on FaceBook. Only thing is, I can't work out what the checkbox does. None of the books I've checked have shown up anywhere on my FB page. Curious...
On the old computer, and gosh it's slow, lol! Guess that means there really has been some improvement. Actually, a LOT of improvement. Just tried to log out at the BBB, and get a page that says: LOG OUT SUCCESSFUL (you are still logged in). . . . Gotta love DFA.
I'm here to do some cleanup before starting to transfer, which I won't do until I get service pack 3 on the other one. With luck, that'll be at the post office tomorrow, so I thought I should get ready. . . .
I have, Bill. They're sending a guy out tomorrow, because they think it's short in one of our internal jacks. I guess we'll see. I managed to plug in an upstairs phone into a downstairs jack and get a dial tone, called Hubby and he was able to call here and it rang! So maybe the upstairs jack is indeed having a problem. Why now, I have no idear. Of course, this would all happen the same day we're supposed to start taking care of one of our grandcats (twice per day), plus go to work, plus Hubby has a sailing race. Sure.
Err, actually, current estimates are that ordinary barionic matter (the stuff we're made out of and can see) makes up approximately 4% or 5% of the stuff in the universe. Dark matter makes up some 25% of the stuff of the universe. The remaining 70% is dark or vacuum energy.
Back on the "new" computer, which I think I'm gonna start calling the Wiz. . . . It's even older than mine. But with the new memory chip and the reformat, it's really doing a helluva job. I did get a bunch of mail deleted, and a bunch more exported. And started working again on cleaning up my doc folder, and saving bookmarks. Gonna be great. . . .if I ever actually finish, grin. The sp3 *should* be at the post office tomorrow. Working without a firewall makes me nervous. so it'll be nice to have it back. Etc.
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ReplyDeleteOur*5th*Child called on Tuesday, from Florence, Italy. I picked up on the second ring but couldn’t hear anyone, so I soon hung up. Then he called again and got through. Turns out he'd left us a VoiceMail message the first time...even though I picked up on the second ring...? The next call was this evening from Daughter in NJ. Since then we’ve noted messed up phones. That is, our downstairs phones blink and indicate they are "in use" and we have no dial tone. Unplugging and replugging them changes nothing. Our upstairs phones had the same issue, except that when we unplug and replug them we get a dial tone. However, we have to uplug and replug them after every call.
Anybody got an idear on what the issue might be and how to unscramble it? Thanks!!
puddle...I figure you're the expert! If your service guy comes by this week, ask his opinion! LOL!
ReplyDeleteNope. Not an expert on anything that happens *inside* the house, 'cause that's never been any problem. Always them.
ReplyDeleteBut the in office people always want me to unplug EVERYTHING for 12 hours. . . . . (ain't never done it, neither)
ReplyDeleteHoward is not only first, he is also a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.
ReplyDeleteTonight I've been working on "The Lady of the Stars." There are still an awful lot of inconsistencies that need to be sorted out and gaps that need to be filled. I doubt if it will ever get finished, which is a pity, since the premise is, pretty much, anything a boy can do, a girl can do better, especially when it comes to quests.That isn't exactly how I initially envisioned it, but that's how it's working out. I suspect the girl is even a better swordsman than the boy, though they both have rather extraordinary help. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI've been reading Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence. Got the third book from the library today, err, yesterday, and will read for a while before going to sleep. Is anyone else familiar with this sequence? It's vaguely Arthurian, and you know I'm a pushover for anything Arthurian, however vaguely.
listener, I hope you get your phones sorted out!
Cat--First they take away our ninth planet, and now they threaten to take away dark energy? I won't stand for it!
ReplyDeletelistener--glad to hear they're raising a bit of Hades about Ally's care; every patient needs an advocate in the hospital, they say. A blood sugar of 19 IS very low, if true. [A certain widely used medical lab chemistry analyzer has lately been giving erratic falsely low blood sugar results; we have one in our lab and have taken to running every blood sugar twice. Bizarre problem--never heard the like. The manufacturer sent out a warning.]
In federal court this afternoon for a pre-trial hearing on the admissibility of evidence. Hope I did my part to convince the judge to exclude some irrelevant and prejudicial testimony. A little more work at home "after" work to perhaps help some folks who have been or may yet be scr**ed over by employment drug screen bungling (not going to be easy) and reviewed some documents on an alleged DUI prescription drugs case. Will have to return the attorney's check and tell her my opinion would only harm her defense. It might have been inadvertent, but the defendant certainly did appear intoxicated by Ambien in combination with another medicine. That stuff is truly dangerous.
And now to bed.
Edwin used to take Ambien sometimes ~~ and one morning, I woke to what looked like a huge bacon grease spill on the dining room floor. We were both puzzled. Two day's later Kennedy got almost arrested for having an accident while on it. And it occurred to both of us to do some reading. Looks like he got up in the night made something to eat with bacon, and did spill the grease. Everything else was cleaned up. Very strange and upsetting.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully green and very toasty day going on here. Finally turned the A/C on. Not going anywhere or doing anything today. ICK
ReplyDeletePure guess from a nonexpert, but my first suspicion would be a malfunction in the central office switching equipment. Have you called the telephone company?
ReplyDeleteI never seems to occur to people that medications can impair you ability to drive, and that the law applies just as much to legal medications (including things like high-alcohol cough syrups) as to alcohol and illegal drubs.
ReplyDeleteAlly update at baby! (It's a keeper!)
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http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys
♡ ALLYLUIA!! ♡
ReplyDeleteAfter fearing the worst it is indescribable to hear the best~!!
(Now I know how I shall feel on the Resurrection morning.) :-)
Ally's Mom also wrote me this note:
My kiddo is STILL IN REMISSION!!! My kid kicks cancer butt.
Thank-you, Alan! I just sent your message along to Ally's Mom.
ReplyDeleteAlly's Daddy works in a medical lab, too, so he can easily follow up on this.
Sooo grateful!
Alan ~
ReplyDeleteI would personally be happy to see dark energy go away. To me, it has just never made sense. But an article I recently saw talked about how astronomical observations and cosmological observations of the Big Bang agreed about the relative proportion of baryonic matter, dark matter, and dark energy. So I'm afraid greater uncertainty in the cosmological observations isn't enough to send it away.
Only thing that could be better is a promise that she'll be in remission the rest of her life -- and promises like that don't exist in this world. So this IS as JOYOUS as it gets!! I know one mommy who's going to sleep very well tonight. (And hopefully, daddy and Ally, too, lol! )
ReplyDelete"Cat--First they take away our ninth planet, and now they threaten to take away dark energy? I won't stand for it! "
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alan. It's nice to know I don't stand alone on this vital issue. 8)
There's a new feature on Library Thing whereby, when you're entering a book, you can check a checkbox to share the entry on FaceBook. Only thing is, I can't work out what the checkbox does. None of the books I've checked have shown up anywhere on my FB page. Curious...
ReplyDeleteOn the old computer, and gosh it's slow, lol! Guess that means there really has been some improvement. Actually, a LOT of improvement. Just tried to log out at the BBB, and get a page that says: LOG OUT SUCCESSFUL (you are still logged in). . . . Gotta love DFA.
ReplyDeleteI'm here to do some cleanup before starting to transfer, which I won't do until I get service pack 3 on the other one. With luck, that'll be at the post office tomorrow, so I thought I should get ready. . . .
I have, Bill. They're sending a guy out tomorrow, because they think it's short in one of our internal jacks. I guess we'll see. I managed to plug in an upstairs phone into a downstairs jack and get a dial tone, called Hubby and he was able to call here and it rang! So maybe the upstairs jack is indeed having a problem. Why now, I have no idear. Of course, this would all happen the same day we're supposed to start taking care of one of our grandcats (twice per day), plus go to work, plus Hubby has a sailing race. Sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you!
ReplyDeleteWe NEED dark matter and dark energy to balance out all the shiny things!
Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I know one Daddy who is going to have one of the most awesome Father's Days ever!!!!
Alan...any chance you can tell me the name of the analyser so Ally's Daddy can check and see if that's the kind used for Ally's test?
ReplyDeleteJ schulte @ together . net (no spaces)
Thanks!
Pouring rain here much of the day, but I didn't mind at all.
ReplyDeleteFriday we get the hot temps and it'll be super hot come Saturday.
Err, actually, current estimates are that ordinary barionic matter (the stuff we're made out of and can see) makes up approximately 4% or 5% of the stuff in the universe. Dark matter makes up some 25% of the stuff of the universe. The remaining 70% is dark or vacuum energy.
ReplyDeleteYick! I hope that forecast doesn't go for us too.
ReplyDeleteLog out successful. You are still logged in. *scratching head* Doesn't that mean log out was not successful? Don't bother. I don't want to know!
ReplyDeleteLol! One woulda thunkit, eh?
ReplyDeleteBack on the "new" computer, which I think I'm gonna start calling the Wiz. . . . It's even older than mine. But with the new memory chip and the reformat, it's really doing a helluva job. I did get a bunch of mail deleted, and a bunch more exported. And started working again on cleaning up my doc folder, and saving bookmarks. Gonna be great. . . .if I ever actually finish, grin. The sp3 *should* be at the post office tomorrow. Working without a firewall makes me nervous. so it'll be nice to have it back. Etc.
e-mail me, abarbour (at) lightspeed.net with your handle in the subject line and I will send you the brand name of the instrument(s).
ReplyDeleteDone.
ReplyDeleteOn that day the sun will rise in the west, and all men seeing will believe.
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