Shortly after noon, we ended up eating our one meal, which was leftover taco pie from yesterday. Vince wanted to eat earlier than we normally do so we did. I steamed two artichokes, we heated up the taco pie and made a salad.
After we ate, I hung out a second load of clothes, came in and told Vince . . I’m sleepy so I went to sleep about 1 p.m. and slept til 3:30. Hopefully, that was the end of the melatonin!
I had given Vince my phone in case the mail lady called about a package. When I got up, Vince said “Your phone was making some kind of noise every 10 seconds so I turned it off.” I turned it back on and we had no service. It was saying “No Network Connection”. Consumer Cellular was able to check the status of AT&T and saw that they were having problems.
Then I saw the same thing on the Early PD Facebook page. Vince was able to get his phone signed onto wifi calling, called a friend who is a truck driver. He said his wife had already found out it wasn’t going to be fixed til tomorrow. So, we could be 24 hours without cell phones! I’m glad I’m not driving but I guess if I was driving, I’d eventually get to an area where phones would work but I still wouldn’t be able to call Vince. I don’t call him often when I’m driving but I like knowing I can if I need to.
I asked Vince to call Nicole and let her know so she wouldn’t worry if she tried to call me and couldn’t get me. Typically, she wouldn’t call Vince’s phone if she was trying to call me . . at least not right off the bat. Chances are . . she wouldn’t “need” me but I didn’t want her to worry.
So, an afternoon of sleeping and no phones . . I think I’ll get lots of knitting done the rest of the day. The clothes have been retrieved from the line so I have nothing else I have to do the rest of the day! 🙂
Nelle Coursey says
Wondered why my phone said no service!! I was beginning to get mad about it! Even the time says 12:01 am!!
dezertsuz says
I turn my own off all the time. If I don’t feel like talking to people, I just turn off the sound and put it on the charger. =) But if I go out, of course, I want it with me. I knew it would be that way, and that’s why I resisted getting a cell phone for a long time. The car was the last private place I had! Too late now. Microwaves were the same way. I knew I’d become dependent on it and put it off as long as possible.
Linda in NE says
I have never been a phone person. My family didn’t have a phone until I was 15. That was the year we moved into a house that had one of those old rectangular wood contraptions on the wall, with a party line…8 parties if I remember correctly. Every time one of them got a call all the phones would ring with the appropriate number of longs & shorts. Annoying and snoopy neighbors galore. I put off getting a cell phone for years until we started babysitting our twin grandchildren five miles out in the country and no landline in their house. My current cell phone just lives in my purse turned off. We don’t get much signal anyway. We were getting so many robocalls that when our landline went down and Frontier let us know it would be two weeks before they would fix it, it was just sort of peaceful, though their lack of concern for their customers made me mad. That is when I switched us over to the Ooma VoIP phone system. They block the robocalls so we have the peace and a lower phone bill. And I still don’t understand why people are always on their phones!