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January 30, 2006

Cool T-shirts

I found this link on another blog and I think it's really neat. If my blog was more interesting, I might be tempted to get my own custom shirt. Sadly, I wasn't impressed by my own word cloud. I more like the Alice in Wonderland fitted T right now.

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January 13, 2006

My experience with harassing phone calls

Two nights ago, I started getting obnoxious prank phone calls on my cell phone at 11:30pm. The first time I listened for a while, because I really couldn't figure out what was going on...the next time, Terry took the phone and tried taking the caller on. This didn't really help. They called another 10 times in the next half an hour.
Yesterday, they called me during the day at work and promised to call back later. I lost it. Because my cell phone is technically University property, I reported it to Penn Police, who were more informative and helpful than the Philly Police. Here's what I've learned:

1) The police can really only accomplish something with harrassing calls if you're being physically threatened.
2) They recommend that you not listen to or speak to the caller. I feel this is in direct conflict with #1 being observed - if I don't engage the caller, how will I know if I'm being physically threatened? I didn't point this out to the detective though.
3) T-Mobile is basically useless in the event of a problem - they couldn't retrieve the private number that was calling me, and they claim they are not capable of blocking all private numbers to my phone. A coworker informed me today that Cingular can do this. When it's time to get a new cell phone again, I think I will switch providers. I lust after Terry's 8700c anyway. For now, I will just make a concerted effort to just ignore calls that don't display caller ID. I've also removed my name from my voicemail message, so that ignoring my prank caller doesn't give him more information about me.
4) Both the police and T-Mobile recommend just changing my cell phone number, as if this were no big deal. I don't think this deals with the underlying problem and it's a huge pain in the ass for me, so I'm trying to avoid it. Yes, it would make the caller move on to someone else. But I think it would take months before everyone actually updated my phone number in their address book or phone. In the meantime, I'd have a hell of a time keeping in touch with the people I need to talk to.

I kept my phone turned off last night, and today has been quiet thus far, so maybe this is already over. I can hope...if not, well, I probably *will* change my number, because I just don't have time or energy to deal with this right now. There's too much else going on to waste more cycles on this.

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January 9, 2006

I want to blog, but can't think of anything...

...so I'll treat you to this image of the slippers I bought on eBay today. Terry found them for me. I was looking for non-granny bootie style slippers. My feet get cold often, so I like big fluffy slippers that cover my whole feet.

I seem to have a disconnect between ideas and time to blog. I'll have one, but not the other. And then, when I get the time, I can't remember for the life of me what the ideas were when I last had them!

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