Phone
June 13th 2002 -
We got connected to Telstra finally, this morning. It still took two working days less than Optus – who already had a working phone line – said that it would take them, even if I passed the credit check, which I didn’t. Telstra had no problem with the credit check. What they did have a problem with, was that Optus had mucked around with the cables in our house, meaning that the Telstra technician had to drill a hole in our wall and run a new cable from the street. Still, they did it cheerily, so hooray for Telstra for once. Pity that I changed to Optus in the first place because Telstra pissed me off. I wish I could remember why. The switching backward and forward between phone companies every time one of them pisses me off lacks a certain… well… effectiveness.
Work
Anna finally got notice to vacate at the Hilton – she has to move out in early December. She’s tempted to move out now, but doesn’t want to give the bastard competitor the satisfaction. The competitor, however, has his own problems if I’m not mistaken. He only set up two months ago, and I think he’ll be kicked out by the renovations too. I doubt he’s making money yet – you need a year or so to build up business – so my suspicion is that he’ll suffer worse than Anna. Such is the futility of total war.
Real tennis
Yes, it’s fun, but if we want to play regularly we’ll have to pay an annual fee, plus a weekly fee. And I don’t think John or I are keen enough to do so. Oh well… we had a game today and enjoyed it a bunch, but it doesn’t really do a lot for fitness. I came off the court without having raised a sweat, which is something that I can usually do walking up stairs. John and I shall move on. Next stop, golf. Then, basketball and badminton. By then, I suspect we’ll both have jobs and opportunities will be fewer.
Admin
I’m trying to help out with some technical unix admin stuff at the moment, and it’s the usual combination of interesting and frustrating. Progress is slow. I’ll give more explicit details when the whole thing is done, thus adding a trivially mysterious note to a currently rather mundane weblog.