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Well, I've had some good news that's about a week overdue in reporting. But custom dictates bad news first, so I'll get this off my chest first.
I came home this evening to find the power shut off. No warnings--in fact, no communication from the utility company since I moved into my new place at the end of April. Wait, it gets better..
I apparantly have an account balance of about $600.
OK, I can admit some fault in this. Although mail was getting turned away at my new address for a while until the postal service got word that my name went with this address, eventually I should've noticed the lack of electric bills. I didn't; c'est la vie. So I called, and we sorted out that it was an address error, and since it was the apartment complex which handled notifying them I was moving in they decided it wasn't my fault and rescinded the reinstall fee.
The weird part is that they first said they were sending the bills to my old apartment address. Why they'd do that instead of sending to the new address is beyond me. Weirder still is when they dug around further and discovered they were billing to an email address instead of sending dead trees to a physical address. Um. I don't really trust online payment systems, so I never sign up for them. WTF?
At least two of the machines fscked OK once power came up. The laptop's drive is definitely on its last leg, though. (Last platter?)
Most folks I've chatted with already knows the good news (and they're probably sick to death of me yammering on about her), so I'll save writing about it here for when I'm in a better mood. Until then, here's a stereotypically gripey LJ entry. Wah. My shoulder still hurts from meeting concrete, too. And these pants make my ass look big. Maybe I'll find a survey to post about next..
I came home this evening to find the power shut off. No warnings--in fact, no communication from the utility company since I moved into my new place at the end of April. Wait, it gets better..
I apparantly have an account balance of about $600.
OK, I can admit some fault in this. Although mail was getting turned away at my new address for a while until the postal service got word that my name went with this address, eventually I should've noticed the lack of electric bills. I didn't; c'est la vie. So I called, and we sorted out that it was an address error, and since it was the apartment complex which handled notifying them I was moving in they decided it wasn't my fault and rescinded the reinstall fee.
The weird part is that they first said they were sending the bills to my old apartment address. Why they'd do that instead of sending to the new address is beyond me. Weirder still is when they dug around further and discovered they were billing to an email address instead of sending dead trees to a physical address. Um. I don't really trust online payment systems, so I never sign up for them. WTF?
At least two of the machines fscked OK once power came up. The laptop's drive is definitely on its last leg, though. (Last platter?)
Most folks I've chatted with already knows the good news (and they're probably sick to death of me yammering on about her), so I'll save writing about it here for when I'm in a better mood. Until then, here's a stereotypically gripey LJ entry. Wah. My shoulder still hurts from meeting concrete, too. And these pants make my ass look big. Maybe I'll find a survey to post about next..
