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Have been quite irregular to the gym lately... getting hitched, getting sick, etc pretty much sidelined me for a couple of months... actually probably more like a triple of months, but I started back a few days ago. Did about an hour and 25 minutes on an elliptical. Legs sore. Next day start training to run a 5K. I am fast, I can run really well at short bursts, but after 15 minutes, 6 of which was spent running, I felt like I was going to die. Today I hit the elliptical again, then a treadmill, feel like I have sand in my legs... fun times...
I realized when I went to the gym today I felt really odd taking my ring off. Sort of one of those things I have to do because after an hour of exercising a ring bites into my finger, but really felt odd taking it off.
Not sure if this is related but I don't sleep nearly as much as I used to, seem to be a lot less needy of sleep, generally would wonder if I'm functioning as well as normal but have no metricable way to measure that one.
Suddenly realized I am old enough to be the father of the kid I'm the big brother of... fortunately I have no worries there.
Ring Rot - just learned what it is, feel less odd about the gym
Watching Jackass unreleased tapes, oddly Jackass sort of is the dumbass childhood I never had... makes me feel old and sad and amazed
it started about noon when my work asked why I had a ~$400 phone bill. I logged on to my sprint web portal and saw 2 other phones listed on there for a total of 4 phones. Calling up Sprint I wasted 30 minutes with someone who kept telling me that the reason for the bill was because I had had my phones replaced and that was the $100 deductible for each of the replaced phones + some other misc charges. They also told me there were only 2 phones on my account and that what I was seeing on the screen was not what I was seeing.
After trying to pound into her head that I had never used the freaking insurance to replace the phones she cold transferred me through to the insurance company which promptly hung up on me. That was about 30 minutes of my time wasted till I finally was told to go talk to the people at the sprint store I had purchased my phone from.
I went there, talked to a nice dude who if you're ever looking for a phone drop me a line and I'll give you his number... he spent roughly 2 minutes looking into the thing, found the other 2 phones that sprint customer care had managed to miss, found that they had been ordered online and shipped to a place in Florida, and told me "you're the victim of some sort of fraud". We changed my PIN (since it was not working), he sat me down at the landline phone they have, and got me on with Sprint Fraud Dept. They looked, within 10 minutes it was taken care of. However I still had to drive to get service since the dumbasses at sprint customer support would not do anything or even have the brains to tell me to call the fraud dept. Basically 2 hours of my time wasted on this.
I get a call from work after that, there's an ISDN line issue... short of it is it's a set of telephone lines that work together to form one ancient 128k solid interface for audio recording / listening in to a studio session. The issue is this: it works calling any other number except this one set of numbers belonging to another studio, and that studio can call us and connect just fine... so basically it's a carrier issue that for some reason the phone call is not being routed correctly. It happens sometimes, I deal with it occasionally with our phone system, in general you call up, say "this is the phone number I'm calling from, this is the number I am calling to, I get a fast busy / whatever, I can dial it from any other phone" and it's taken care of.
Eleven... that's how many departments I went through... 2 hours of pulling teeth with dumbasses saying I couldn't dial long distance because I didn't have a long distance plan (then how were we calling NY and California earlier?) people trying to sell me a product (already have product, need it working) and a bunch of people who just really did not understand the issue.
My finger hurts.. I think I actually was on the phone so long it either got radiation burned or something. I lost battery power at one point and put it on the charger while I was on hold for 42 minutes on the last call (not kidding) when I finally called someone and said if they blind transferred me I was going to scream.
Finally, after all of this they find someone who looks at the switch and says "oh yeah, I see the issue there" and supposedly will be fixing the issue tomorrow morning.
I forgot the whole thing in which AT&T tested the circuit and got all bitchy with us because a long distance issue is not a circuit issue (and I had explained the problem sufficiently for them to know it was not a circuit issue)
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