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Monday, October 5th, 2009 12:15 pmI got quite sick to my stomach last night. The most likely culprit seems the prickly pears. I guess that ends my adventure with wild cactus fruit. It's a pity; the violet pink juicy juice was so pretty. I'd like to have a carpet that color for my bedroom. I will look up whether I can find any good-quality hot pink carpets for sale.
I seem to be a tad more impulsive than usual of late. I wonder if it is due to the Pristiq.
I'm staying home from work today due to still feeling achy and feverish when I woke up this morning. But I'm working from home, off and on. I'm never quite sure where the boundary lies between being too sick to work or not. I'm not in bed delirious with a high fever. I'm up and about; a bit slower than usual, but still up and about. So I guess I should be working. The only food that seems slightly appetizing at the moment is dry toasted white bread; that indicates I'm still sick. I feel like replacing the phone outlet*; that indicates that I'm healthy enough to work. If I'm up to replacing a phone outlet (as well as up to writing an LJ post), surely I'm up to working; therefore I should be working and not replacing a phone outlet. Sigh.
*When the telephone repair person came to replace the ancient phone box with a new one which has a test jack, apparently he also replaced one of the inside phone outlets. (He came while I was on my Germany trip, so I wasn't able to watch what he did.)(Maybe that was his excuse for charging the $100, when replacing the box was supposed to be done for free - I'm fairly sure that the phone line problem I had after that storm was due to the wiring in the ancient box, not due to any problem with the wiring in the outlets.) Yesterday while testing all the phone outlets in the house, troubleshooting where the static on my line comes from, I noticed that the phone jack in that new outlet was full of goopy glue. So much so that it is hard plugging the phone into the jack. After trying unsuccessfully to get the goopy glue out yesterday, I decided it would be easier to just replace the whole outlet. So not only was I charged $100 in what seems an unfair manner, but the person messed up one of my outlets, so I have to go thru the trouble of replacing it again myself! It doesn't seem worth the trouble to complain to the phone company and to try to get them to come and fix their mistake without charging me again. I also don't trust their competence much at this point. (Squirting so much goopy glue in the outlet that it filled up the jack! Jeesh! Why did they even need to put any glue in there??)
But the static in the line is there even when using the test jack, which indicates that problem is on their end of the wiring. So I'll have to call them out again to fix that, unless it's a simple problem with the ground wire which I might be able to figure out myself, when it stops raining and dries up enough outside for me to go and take a look.
I seem to be a tad more impulsive than usual of late. I wonder if it is due to the Pristiq.
I'm staying home from work today due to still feeling achy and feverish when I woke up this morning. But I'm working from home, off and on. I'm never quite sure where the boundary lies between being too sick to work or not. I'm not in bed delirious with a high fever. I'm up and about; a bit slower than usual, but still up and about. So I guess I should be working. The only food that seems slightly appetizing at the moment is dry toasted white bread; that indicates I'm still sick. I feel like replacing the phone outlet*; that indicates that I'm healthy enough to work. If I'm up to replacing a phone outlet (as well as up to writing an LJ post), surely I'm up to working; therefore I should be working and not replacing a phone outlet. Sigh.
*When the telephone repair person came to replace the ancient phone box with a new one which has a test jack, apparently he also replaced one of the inside phone outlets. (He came while I was on my Germany trip, so I wasn't able to watch what he did.)(Maybe that was his excuse for charging the $100, when replacing the box was supposed to be done for free - I'm fairly sure that the phone line problem I had after that storm was due to the wiring in the ancient box, not due to any problem with the wiring in the outlets.) Yesterday while testing all the phone outlets in the house, troubleshooting where the static on my line comes from, I noticed that the phone jack in that new outlet was full of goopy glue. So much so that it is hard plugging the phone into the jack. After trying unsuccessfully to get the goopy glue out yesterday, I decided it would be easier to just replace the whole outlet. So not only was I charged $100 in what seems an unfair manner, but the person messed up one of my outlets, so I have to go thru the trouble of replacing it again myself! It doesn't seem worth the trouble to complain to the phone company and to try to get them to come and fix their mistake without charging me again. I also don't trust their competence much at this point. (Squirting so much goopy glue in the outlet that it filled up the jack! Jeesh! Why did they even need to put any glue in there??)
But the static in the line is there even when using the test jack, which indicates that problem is on their end of the wiring. So I'll have to call them out again to fix that, unless it's a simple problem with the ground wire which I might be able to figure out myself, when it stops raining and dries up enough outside for me to go and take a look.