Peeves in a better mood
Or, update to this post of last week:
While I was away I was solicited for a contribution to a project which a) it was gratifying to be asked to contribute to (lo, I am still relevant) and b) the pay was somewhat, if only slightly, more munificent than one is used to. The downside was that the deadline is very tight. So on my return I have been in touch, and the person who was the lead had left and got a new job and I have not heard from the replacement person yet about various rather essential things needed before I can actually start working on this thing. Bah.
I threw a diva strop in email and behold, I have been updated as to the state of play and what is expected of me and while I feel just a leeetle constrained by the deadline and certain other parameters of the project, yr hedjog thinks they can work with it.
I have still, I realised today, not yet been paid for a talk I gave 2 months ago and which was Far More Faff than it seemed like it would be going in.
I took this up with the person who organised it and, mirabile dictu, the sum in question is now in my bank account.
Our home landline is not letting us know of incoming calls. After some time wrestling with the manual, the frankly not very intuitive handset menu, etc, and making sure that the ringtone was set at a reasonable volume and we had not inadvertently turned Do Not Disturb on, and none of all this solving the problem, turned to The Internet and found that this is not a problem unique to our make of handset and may, in fact, be All British Telecom's Fault. However, communication with BT has not been without its problems and we have not yet resolved all this.
A telephone engineer came today and established that The Fault Was At The Exchange, not that that didn't involve a certain amount of faff to fix, but it is, now, fixed. I have also managed to locate on the handset - what I thought had been wiped - our phonebook with numbers of people we are likely to call, and established that we do too have a personalised message on the answering service and it is now turned on... This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2941487.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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