Disconnected...
Oct. 18th, 2005 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishHmmm, came in a tried to login on my computer and I noticed "server not recognized" several times on the login window, then my Groupwise email refused to log in. Dialed my voicemail and just got a busy signal. Then nothing when I opened Internet Exploder, not even the default homepage. After checking with fellow cubicle workers, I found that apparently the entire 562 area code is down this morning - no phone, no network, no internet. A co-worker told me not even 911 is working. VT is out and I can only assume she called in sick, but I can't check my voicemail. Cellphones work, but I don't have one. Hope there's no emergencies this morning. (Edit - she just came in; she had to take her cat to the vet)
On another tack, the kids and I went to the brand new (rebuilt) Target, and we did find a plain black stocking cap for Gareth's costume in the men's department; it still needs stripes but at least it doesn't have a logo. But all the red T-shirts we found had long sleeves, and the only red socks in the whole store were a pair in a multi-pack of women's colored socks. Oh well, I needed more socks anyway. ;) [Come on people, the holidays are coming; you don't have any red or green clothing? What are you thinking? Don't you usually have it out in August?] There's a cheap t-shirt place on my way home from work that I'll check out; probably cheaper there anyway. I was going to check out the craft/fabric shop across the street, but we left Target too late.
The new store has these giant red concrete spheres next to the curb - the kids instantly referred to them as jawbreakers and began hugging and climbing all over them. I told Gareth he can come back as Double D and we'll take his picture with one (the Eds are often shown coveting these massive sweets that are larger than their heads).
Ah well - finish up meeting notes, then downstairs to look at mackerel otoliths, since I'm incommunicado for now (not that I'm on the phone much anyhow)...
(posted after phones connected, of course)
On another tack, the kids and I went to the brand new (rebuilt) Target, and we did find a plain black stocking cap for Gareth's costume in the men's department; it still needs stripes but at least it doesn't have a logo. But all the red T-shirts we found had long sleeves, and the only red socks in the whole store were a pair in a multi-pack of women's colored socks. Oh well, I needed more socks anyway. ;) [Come on people, the holidays are coming; you don't have any red or green clothing? What are you thinking? Don't you usually have it out in August?] There's a cheap t-shirt place on my way home from work that I'll check out; probably cheaper there anyway. I was going to check out the craft/fabric shop across the street, but we left Target too late.
The new store has these giant red concrete spheres next to the curb - the kids instantly referred to them as jawbreakers and began hugging and climbing all over them. I told Gareth he can come back as Double D and we'll take his picture with one (the Eds are often shown coveting these massive sweets that are larger than their heads).
Ah well - finish up meeting notes, then downstairs to look at mackerel otoliths, since I'm incommunicado for now (not that I'm on the phone much anyhow)...
(posted after phones connected, of course)
