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Broken mouthguard

4:16am CST Thursday 23 January 2003

The front of my mouthguard broke off. It had cracked during the night, and I kept it in. Now the front edge broke, leaving a serrated edge for me to slice my tongue if it's not careful.

I'm glad I'm in Houston, where my dentist is located.

Dream

4:26am CST Thursday 23 January 2003

Woah. I'm reminded that I had a dream last night. I'm not sure if the dream happened before or after my mouthguard cracked.

(dream)

In my dad's living room, my grandpa/dentist was sitting on the couch to my back right, and his wife was on the recliner to my front left. He was looking through pictures and came across some that showed my teeth before he had worked on them to make the front teeth all straight and such.

He showed the picture to grandma, and I proudly showed her the resulting teeth.

I don't know how my dentist got to be my grandfather in my dream. Maybe that is based on Wende's PawPaw being a dentist.

Phone

11:05am CST Thursday 23 January 2003

Can't find my cellphone, but I called (with Maggie's landline) Cingular who said that I'm "eligible for an upgrade" which I translated to mean "encouraged to pay them money." She said I could just roll into a store and get the "latest" Motorola 311c (?) for $49 with a $50 rebate. 3 to 6 weeks for the rebate check. Aight. I'll do that so I can have a phone for two more months.

Going now to get my phone. Pooh that I've lost Rie's phone number by losing my old phone.

My expectation is that the Motorola whatchamadoodle will be a flip phone, and I hate those, but I can deal for 2 months with it. Plus if it's "free" then fine.

11:32am

I'm closing my Cingluar account. I rolled into a store and he was all, "who's Wende?" cause her name is the primary on the account and "she has to be here" etc etc etc and I left and came back, "okay, I'm about to call customer service and be really mad, so I'm giving you a second chance" and he said it was company policy and all that runaround and whatever.

The long sad story is that we used to have separate accounts, but when we moved in together, we thought it was silly they were sending us two different bills (wasting paper and all that) so we had them merged. Once we split, we were never able to get the accounts split without starting a new contract, which I was not willing to do after I had been a customer with them for a year+ already. I explained this to the guy and he was unimpressed.

So, back at Maggie's I just called Crystal and she said Wende has to call them.

For the record, I didn't yell at her.

To: Wende
Subj: cingular

HI Bear

I called them to close the account but they want to talk to you.

Please call them at 800-331-0500, say HI to the cute voice (Cingular's
only redeeming quality) and enter 1 then your information (phone #
then zipcode).  Once she tells you your current minutes, press 1 to
continue, then 3 then 2 to get discuss closing the account.

I would certainly do this for you if they'd let me.  I hope they turn
off the correct phone number.  They can verify this by noting it's the
one with a credit balance of $0.02 cents and that it's been suspended
(though they are still charging me for the service, which, of course,
I am not, at this time (and won't ever (unless some really good reason
comes up) be), willing to pay) because the phone is lost.

I hope and trust this causes you no hardships.  I hope and trust you
can decipher that sentence.

Thank you so much.

	With Love
	- Rob!

I think I'll write to them and explain why they are losing a customer.

12:05pm

I just called my number and it says it's temporarily suspended. I could call back, tell them the phone is found, have the message be changed.. but that would make it all the more confused and I'm just over it.

dad

From: Rob
Date: Thu Jan 23, 2003  12:17:54 PM US/Central
To: Dad
Subject: cell phone

HI Dad

I am in the process of closing my cell phone account, so unless
something surprising happens with that process, I won't have a cell
phone again until I get to Japan.

I called your home number to let you know and Karen answered, and
ultimately invited me to call you at work.  I chose not to bug you at
work over such a little thing, so I called her back, asking if she'd
let you know.  She didn't seem too happy about my having called back,
but said she would be glad to pass that bit of information on.

I do not love Karen enough to have a clearing with her, letting her
know that I feel negative energy every time I talk to her.

I do love you enough to let you know that I feel distance between you
and I since you've been with Karen.

Ironically, I'm doubly not going to call you at work to dump this on
you now, nor am I going to call Karen back to have her pass this
message on to you.

I feel really sad and just had a good cry.

	I love you
	- Rob

comments

Name: jb

Subject: your dad

Comment:
congratulations on your bravery and wisdom in stating your feelings honestly and succintly. permalink

dentist

1:33pm CST Thursday 23 January 2003

Just finished at the Dr Chisholm DDS office. He fixed my mouthguard free of charge. Awww yeah. I was all "now this is excellent customer service" none of this, "are you going to see Wende [in California] anytime soon?"

Jessica the assistant told me about her upcoming trip to Panama, her home country, and how some of her friends were all worried cause apparently some Americans got kidnapped there, or are missing or something. She was all, "I'm going anyway; I know where to go and be safe."

I even got a new mouthguard case, just in case. Different color so I can easily remember which one contains my mouthguard.

lock stock etc

4:30pm CST Thursday 23 January 2003

Just watched Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I liked it, and definitely appreciated the ending.

molly and wills

6:02pm CST Thursday 23 January 2003

Maggie is home on time and it seems like early considering her last couple of arrival times. We're going to Molly and Will's for dinner tonight. Mmmmmmmm dinner.

8:34pm

Dinner was pork ribs and salad and lemon butter noodles. Anna (the 16 month human) provided entertainment, Scout (the speedy dog) provided occasional music.

Will showed us his resume' and told us interesting things he had learned in a job-getting class. Like networking is more effective than a resume' because 80% of jobs are being designed and get filled before they are advertised, and 20% actually get advertised. While 20% of people are networking to get their share of 80% of the jobs, 80% of the people toss resumes into a pile to get 20% of the jobs.

I tried to get Scout to slide down the Little Tykes slide, but she wouldn't go down on it. Bad dog. hahahahaahaha

Maggie took me to Colonel Mustard's Frozen Custards for dessert. Actually it's called Connie's Custards or something. My name is way funnier though.

I ordered M&Ms and bananas. Maggie got a butterscotch blend. Good stuff. Thanks to Maggie for buying. :-)

Maggie and I are giggling over stories and (her) ice cream now, like the time after our gang watched Silence of the Lambs and then Maggie was feeding herself, John, Christine and I bites of cake off one fork. I would always politely decline a bite after John had one, and it took Maggie about 2 bites to catch on to my ploy. She and I were giggling then and (we believe) neither Christine nor John caught on. They were all like, "whatever.. those weirdos."

the fifth element

1:02am CST Friday 24 January 2003

Maggie and I watched The Fifth Element tonight. Good stuff. At the end, I was all, "I love you! I love you!" trying to help save the world.

comments

Comment:
that is one of my favorite movies ever, but no one ever agrees with me.
im sorry you lost your cell phone. what a hassle. i recently got a cell
phone. it has already taken over my life. if i lost it, what would i do.
im such a big kid now. actually, i left my cell phone at school on accident
this weekend. im going crazy. i think maybe thats why im online. i havnt
been in a long time. i didnt go back and read all your entries yet, cause
im worried about getting to the rally entry. im sad i didnt go. also a reason among many, mostly that i just hanvt felt like it, that i havnt lj'd in a long time either. another funny thing, my house is in the middle of nowhere and the verizon service is really crappy out here, so i dont use the phone anyways while im at home cause it never works. and yet another funny thing, i have
unlimited weekend minutes. sigh. the number, now that you have no phone with which to call me, or a chance of talking to me till monday anyways, or a desire to call my cell phone, cause thats a really weird sudden jump right, is *** *** ****. hahahah. funny allovertheplace. i hope you can read this, but im sure you can. it seems we sometimes have a swell understanding between us, and even my endless comma sentances and dangling participles cant ruin that. right on buddy. until then. (when?) hah! ok ok, ill stop with the funny.
au revoir.
- aisha

18 April 2025: Rob note: aisha did give a phone number, which I have replaced with asterisks as I convert these entries back to my Perl journal.