I need an AAAAAARRRRGRRRRHHHHH! icon.

[etakyma]

Sometime in the last two weeks my landline stopped working. It hasn't actually rung for ages - and the last call I made on it was May 20 - so last two weeks.

In order to check that the issue is outside the house they request you go to the junction box and plug in a line to test it. My junction box is attached to the side of the house about fifteen feet off the ground.

I can get to it by getting up onto the roof of the oil tank shed (climb ladder up to six feet or so, transfer to roof, stand and walk up incline to reach box), and standing on it, avoiding all the other scary wires that attach to the house, use a screwdriver to open the box, and figure out how to plug in a line (not as easy as it sounds).

I started that project about forty minutes before I was supposed to be on a conference call today. The conference call I took on my cell phone.

Nothing from the junction box.

After my conference call I called (also from my cell) my phone company, and the automated help pinged my line, confirmed what I thought that the problem is between the house and the street - or elsewhere in the neighborhood. Likely something blew in the big storm about a week and a half ago. They will come fix it. By 6pm tomorrow.

I have my major conference call tomorrow - at 11:30am. I may crash my parent's house tomorrow morning after I've printed my stuff out with phone, laptop and wireless router in hand just so I can do the call.

Technology sucks. If it had been my Internet connection I'd have known it was wonky within seconds. But who the heck uses a landline anymore? I only use mine for business - and only when I am on conference calls.

ANNOYEDANNOYEDANNOYEDANNOYED

Comments

[hedwig-snowy.livejournal.com]

Happened to us recently as well. Well, it was only over part of a weekend and we noticed it when I picked up the phone and didn't get a dial tone despite someone having called us late the day before. But we were without a landline phone for almost 3 days. We rarely use our cell unless we're out of the house.

Now, what if that Nigerian prince called me then with instructions on where to send my bank account number so we could share in the $30 million dollar windfall???

:-)

I give you AAAAAARRRRRRGGGRRRRHHHHHHHH icons. :)

[kei-rin.livejournal.com]

They aren't fancy but right now I have to fight with a term paper. *headdesk*
If I didn't have to do that I would try to figure out how to do animated icons on my laptop (which I have been meaning to do anyway) to properly get all the frustration in the icon.

I don't even have a landline at my apartment so I'm totally dependent on my cell phone and internet. Hope you get your landline fixed soon. *hugs*

Re: I give you AAAAAARRRRRRGGGRRRRHHHHHHHH icons. :)

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

These are AWESOME!

(so r u <3)