More “Fun” With Technology

So today is the day when my email address changes from username@verizon.net to sameusername@myfairpoint.net. According to an email I got from Fairpoint, all I had to do was to go to the Fairpoint netmail site, put in my usermail@fairpoint.net address and the same password and all would proceed with joy and happiness abounding!

I put my new email address and of course, it didn’t work! Are we surprised?  Of course not! So, I called the 800  number and after waiting a long time listening to music got to talk to a person who eventually decided that he needed to talk to his supervisor. He very nicely asked me if I minded waiting; however, since I had been waiting 20 minutes already, I wasn’t going to let anyone get away until my problem was solved so I told him I would wait! He came back  after 10 minutes of music and said the problem seemed to be that when I had joined Verizon, they had given me a weird email address which started with vze, had a couple of numbers in there and ended in "iw" and was, of course, completely unpronounceable and very hard to remember. So, of course, I had changed it to what Verizon called an alias which was something I could remember.

Anyway, he said that all the information re the present verizon address would have to be put in by hand, or at least, I think that’s what he said. At this point he could have told me anything!  So, apparently things were being done over the course of the next 15 {I counted} minutes while I listened to music and he kept checking back to see if I was still there!  At last, he told me that it seemed to be working now and I said, "Good, so you can help me with setting up Thunderbird now!" Anyway, to make this long story shorter, 50 minutes later, he thanked me for being so patient and I thanked him for all the help and, it seems, I have email again. And I have spent hours going to all the sites I regularly hear from and changing my email address. {Which reminds me, I must let Open Diary know my address has changed}

In addition, I have:

• packed up the duplicate book I accidentally ordered from Amazon and had it picked up by the mailperson
• cleared 8 inches of snow off my car from two days ago and moved it behind Fred’s so I can get out to get a massage tomorrow
• had a lovely meatloaf sandwich for lunch! {Fred made a lovely meat loaf yesterday}

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Jim Rohn

"Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Paul Goodman

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marcus Aurelius