Category: Life

As I’ve mentioned before and in more depth here, our neighborhood, while ostensibly much “nicer” than our previous neighborhood, is a hotbed of petty crime and idiocy. Last night, our retaining wall got tagged. Not anything clever or unique, just the letters “I C” or something. A couple of weeks ago, someone broke into our [...]

Mr. Pencil and I spent a long weekend in Ashland, Oregon, to pre-celebrate our second anniversary. We have a wedding the weekend of our true one (this coming weekend), so had to adjust. We did the usual Pencil activities. Lush dining: Amuse in downtown Ashland served up a fire-grilled extra-rare pork chop that Mr. Pencil [...]

Battlestar!

I used to love this as a kid.

Our little play-band, Pointy Birds, debuted at our big house party a couple of weeks ago. Our friend Aubrey took photos. You can see more here.

She works! I finally got an AT&T rep who cared last night and she walked me through the 5-minute process to get my phone working. Now I am enjoying my iPhone. It’s quite nice. I especially like how “aggressive” it is about finding wireless networks. I was at the Band of Horses show last night [...]

Stella Originally uploaded by lyzadanger More kitteny goodness to distract myself from iPhone woes.

It’s Tuesday afternoon and still no iPhone love. My other (old) cell phone doesn’t work either, as AT&T has de-activated the SIM in it, so I have had no phone service whatsoever for days now. I called AT&T again last night. Their official response (paraphrased): go pound sand. Sigh. If you’re trying to call me, [...]

Short story: don’t try to call me; neither of my phones work. Thanks AT&T. That totally rocks. I just got off the phone with AT&T customer support. Again. This time I was bluntly told that it could take “24 to 48 hours.” “Really?” I asked. “I thought I read in the news that you guys [...]

Short story: AT&T customer service instructs me to “take the phone apart”; still not activated. I knew activating my iPhone was going to be a bitch because a) I already have Cingular/AT&T service; b) I have had said service for a long time without changing anything and; c) I have a corporate discount from that [...]