Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Day 36 of 40 Networking


Great, I’ve got a working internet connection in the new house since this afternoon. Which means that the one in the old house is disconnected but that is where my computer still is. Slightly more inconvenient is that the landline doesn’t want to work  and the guy needs therefore to come back tomorrow. He will fix it I’m sure.
Apparently I had missed a few calls on my cellphone this morning and as soon as the guy had arrived I took a break from what I was doing and decided to call them back. At the same time I was doing so, I heard the guy’s phone ringing in the hallway where he was working, that typical Nokia tune. The one I was calling answered and it occurred to me that he was from the same company as the guy in my hallway. It took me a couple of seconds to realize it was him I was calling...
After a couple of hours when he still couldn’t bring the landline to life, he said he gave up  trying and I suggested I’d borrow a phone from a friend that afternoon to try if it was due to the phone or the line. He asked me if I could let him know how that went because if it was the line he needed to come back. You’ve already got my number, he said. That’s true because he’d called me, and I called him, his number was automatically stored in my cell phone. I agreed and decided to link that number to his name. Lately I’ve got funny new contacts, for example Joe the  Plumber , Jesse the Carpenter or Jim the Upholsterer, because I only know their first names and what they do. But in times of moving houses it can come in  handy to know a craftsman who works good.

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