Telecommuter

I woke up earlier than I might have liked — on a day when, because I’m working from home, I get to sleep in an extra hour or even two — because I’d scheduled a service appointment with a Verizon phone technician a week ago, and I was expecting them between the hours of eight and noon. I was, of course, foolish to expect this…and I probably should have expected that. The house phone has been dead for about a week and a half, and Verizon didn’t seem too eager to do anything about that. When I put in the repair ticket last Wednesday, I was told (by an automated system, not by a human being) that the earliest they could be out was this Monday. But since I would be home anyway on Tuesday…

Well, after a lot of waiting around (and a few calls on my cell phone to the Verizon service number), the repair tech showed up around 2:30. And while he was able to pinpoint roughly where the problem was coming from — or at least the radius in which to look — he didn’t know the area or have the right maps, and by the time he got back to the office and looked it up on the computer with the foreman, the day would be over. I didn’t mention that it was still not yet three o’clock, or that he was supposed to have been there at least three hours earlier. Honestly, he seemed nice enough and I have no reason to doubt him. I suspect the mix-up (which I didn’t mention) was at Verizon’s end. The tech said he’d come back tomorrow, and the problem’s outside, so I don’t have to be there.

Which is good, because I have an early start of it tomorrow, heading to Connecticut to meet an author and do some campus calling. (And while I think the dog knows what to do with burglars, and he will be here, he’s not especially tech-savvy or good and answering the front door.)

Well, that was Tuesday. This being the first of May and all, then, let me leave you with my April mix of new (or just new to me) music. A short, short mix this month, but I like everything on it:

  1. “We Are Young” by Fun (feat. Janelle Monae)
  2. “Dancing With Myself” Nouvelle Vague
  3. “Listening to Levon” by Marc Cohn
  4. “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men
  5. “Hey Jane” by Spirtiualized
  6. “The Night” by Exitmusic