hmc’s off in new york for a week and a half, visiting jo to help her deal with her new wedding anxieties, since she got engaged late last year.
although i’m not sure that hmc really is the best person for this, as i think she herself still has wedding anxieties. the one thing in her favor is that since we got married over a year ago, there’s no actual wedding to fear any more. or maybe she’s the perfect one because of it: if a worrier like hmc can overcome the fear and get married (forcibly, with the help of her friends who planned the whole thing for us), then certainly jo can overcome the fear as well.
speaking of fear, if you ever feared changing your cell phone service, i can now vouch for you that it’s a rational and justified fear.
i just went through the process of switching my cell phone from att to cingular, and it was the most incredibly painful process i’ve ever experienced. maybe since the time i got my wisdom teeth pulld. or the last time i tried to change my cell phone service.
granted, i was doing something pretty complicated, pulling my service off of our corporate account, switching it to individual fiscal responsibility, migrating it from att to cingular, switching to gsm, and then pairing it to hmc’s personal cell phone as well. i wasn’t expecting it to be easy as pie. but hard as fruitcake? urgh. try spending at least a half an hour a day for over a week with them. try not being able to activate the new phone for three days. and then having it activated, yet having your call still go to your old phone for another three days, thus requiring you to carry around two phones. and the try spending an hour and a half on the last day, only to tell you that they need to submit a service ticket about it, and they’ll hopefully fix it tomorrow.
it’s finally working now, but it’s been a long time coming.
honestly, i don’t think this is actually anything wrong with cingular per se, but just the fucked up cell situation i ended up in.
however, it was easier when i just lost my cell on the slopes of northstar.
because at least then i was snowboarding.
Posted at February 5, 2005 9:48 PMdidn’t at&t cingular merge?
i swear, sometimes i think a nice nuclear apocalypse would be much easier.
Posted by: xz at February 7, 2005 10:52 AMyes. so you’d think it’d be easier. but the fact that it’s still so much trouble makes it even more aggravating.
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