Long time no write…
I’ve been on vacation during the past weeks and on my return last Friday I found a letter from Deutsche Telekom announcing they would install the land line on Tuesday, the 27th of May which is - today!
At 12:23h the service technician rang the bell (absolutely on time, he was scheduled to arrive sometime in the afternoon past 12:00h) and was gone after only 5 minutes went by. The installation went lightning fast (he had to connect two wires in a switchbox in our basement) and now I have a land line from Deutsche Telekom. YAY! The months of waiting, fearing, crying and praying finally payed off…
So what do I do with that land line? I already have one with a call flatrate which works fine. Hm, so let’s first connect a phone to it - *ring* *ring*. How can the phone ring when I did not hand out the phone number to anyone so far?
Interesting, Versatel trying to reach a Mr. Aslan. No, sorry, that’s not me. At least now I now who already owned that number before which makes the new phone number not that shiny and new anymore. Actually it feels kinda worn off to me. OK, enough with the distraction, let’s concentrate on the actual reason why I ordered that phone line in the first place which is: Getting VDSL.
As the online availability check shows that VDSL is not available for this phone number I call the service desk of Deutsche Telekom to find out that there are still processes that need to run in the background and I should call again tomorrow. Now I’m worried… At least he tries to calm me down and performs the check again with the phone number of my neighbour living downstairs which shows VDSL50 availability. Well, so I have to wait for tomorrow it seems (I’m now an expert at waiting you know)…
Ode to Cron
Oh dear master of time
Run those little badly written shell scripts well
Else you will send many people to their own hell
And I will never be able to get VDSL
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