Relentless Survivors

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
-- Bill Bryson

Thursday, June 5, 1997

So when I came home last night and tried to update my web site, the phone was turned off! How humiliating, especially because I have the money, I just neglect to send in the checks!

So at work today I called the phone company to find out the locations where they accept payments in person. There aren't very many, and apparently a bunch have just closed. Lake City was my destination of choice, in the north part of Seattle. When I got to the store, there was a sign saying that tomorrow would be their last day to accept phone bill payments.

Then a suprisingly smooth drive back to Capitol Hill, because I stayed off the highway.

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