Do you ever sometimes feel like you're getting everything so together, a routine down to a tee, and then BOOM! Dentist appointment. Car troubles. Someone in the family needs help. Whatever.
Just inconvenient timing when your routine is just starting to become consistent?
Yeah I've got a dentist appointment today. I was just starting to eat the regular amount of calories I need daily, starting to get a workout routine. But nope. I am getting a crown, so I won't be able to workout for a couple days at least. It may or may not interfere with my bulking. Oh yeah, and on top of that, my Work Weekend starts tomorrow. 3 days of twelve hour shifts, so whatever I don't get done today will likely have to wait until monday except for small things. And I likely won't want to do anything today because I'll be in pain from the crown.
I also found out that a crown is a two part process, so I'll run into this inconvenience again soon.
Just awesome!
Well, funny you should ask. I have had what is known as a Griffithsian week (named after a schoolmate who used to have days in which everything seemed to go pear-shaped.)
My 12yr old 3G iPhone finally started playing up a fortnight ago, so I bit the bullet and bought a new SE model. This needed a smaller SIM card than the old one, so I contacted BT to get a new one. Aha, they said, we are merging with EE, for them to handle all the mobile phone services, so we'll need to get you onto a new BT contract, excluding mobile, and obviously we can't send you a new SIM card but you can get one from EE, with whom you'll need a separate mobile contract. You can carry over the existing mobile number. So after 50 minutes (!) on the phone this was all arranged....but the new SIM card didn't arrive. So I chased EE, to discover some turkey had cancelled the order! So I got it reinstated and the SIM card duly arrrived.
Now the fun begins. I had been told that if I put in the new card and turned on the phone for a hour or so, to let the systems know it was active, then switched it off and left it overnight, they would activate the card overnight with my existing mobile number on it, transferred over from BT.
Nope. All I had on the card next morning was the temporary new number originally supplied with it. So I rang them (10 minutes waiting in voicejail) and they said oh, we need your PAC number. WTF is that, I asked, and why didn't you get it from BT? We can't do that, they said,
you have to contact BT, get it and let us know. So I rang BT, got my PAC number, got EE to ring me back and gave it to them. Ah, they said, this PAC number is rejected by the system, so it can't be valid any more. Go back to BT and ask them if they can create a new PAC number for you. So I did that she said "Oa noa (she's Geordie) I cannae dee that, the system woan't let me. But your PAC number is fayeen, let me contact EE and gee it to them m'sel". So she put me on hold, did that and said there it's aal done nay problem. You should have your number on your phone tomorrow morning.
Nope. This morning still the termporary number on the card. BUT a nice message from BT on email, saying how sorry they are to see me go ...... and deactivating the old SIM card, which had up to then been functioning still in my old phone.
So now I'm ****-ed. My mobile number is unreachable, on any device, and if I ring it from my landline I get a "number unobtainable" response. Allegedly, some higher ponytailed geek authority from EE is going to call me, God knows on what phone number, so try to sort it out. But I've a nasty feeling this is all getting too hard and they'll tell me a need a new phone number. Which will be a ROYAL pain in the *****, needless to say.
And my son also has a mobile on the same contract, so we can look forward to a similar merry-go-round when his new SIM card arrives, supposedly tomorrow.
While all this has been going on, my
bike, which was in for overhaul, has turned out to be too old to be worth repairing, so I've had to order a new bike. I'm off to collect it now.
What's the betting the EE ponytails ring me - on my land line - while I'm out? Grrr....
