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The Phone and the Serpent
The Izzie has decided that 2006 is the year of not procrastinating. That meant that last Friday we would finally bite the bullet and peek in the evil Telstra store to get details of their Scrooge phone plan which is crap but has line rental of $18.50 per month compared to the usual $$29.95 charged for normal services by them and everyone else - assuming of course you can get anything without some stupid sucky bundle.
Was going to peruse the leaflet over the weekend before finally signing on the dotted line some time this week. But while in the store, the salesman mentions this new fangled thing called prepaid home phone where the rent is only $$13.90 and local calls cost 20 knuts and not the outrageous 30 charged under the other plan. Well. Wasn't it just as well that the Izzie did procrastinate and not sign up for the other one when we first found out about it last year. So - being a good serpent - no more dilly dallying - got the starter kit for $$45 on the spot. Oh another advantage is that unlike the normal service - the usual $$60 connection fee does not apply.
Of course, there is a downside. You cannot get broadband and every time you want to ring some one, you got to enter an 8 digit account number followed by a 4 digit PIN and then the actual number you want to call. This poor serpent's fingers will be getting blister marks
But the Izzie does not mind. Saving $$16 per month on line rental is well worth such inconvenience to the Izzie. The main thing is - will soon be able to be online in the Lair. Any time we want podcasts and tasty morselses that are dinosaur dial up unfriendly, will just go to our usual locations or Petunia's place to get our fix.
So, today we bought 30 hours of prepaid dial up and topped up the ma's old account. Hoping that it should work since we'd already been using our computer over her place with Dodo and had no problems at all. With a bit of luck, the only thing we'll have to do is add the silly codes to the dial up number stored in the vaults of the Precioussss. Let's hope that the dial up folks don't get too fussy if a user rings from a different phone than usual.
So now we are back in the land of normal folks with landline phones, will have to get used to the end of blissful peace and quiet and to take appropriate measures against the Dark Forces. Got some useful Defence Against the Dark Arts tips that are so wicked that we have to share.
Don't get mad. Get even (snatched from the evil Australians at aussielj)
PS - the Izzie has been placed under the Imperius Curse by a certain![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
timatina and is bravely resisting the overwhelming power of this nasty nasty spell. But it is only a matter of time before we will succumb to its evil insidiousness. So just wait and see to find out what awful things she compels this serpent to do.
Was going to peruse the leaflet over the weekend before finally signing on the dotted line some time this week. But while in the store, the salesman mentions this new fangled thing called prepaid home phone where the rent is only $$13.90 and local calls cost 20 knuts and not the outrageous 30 charged under the other plan. Well. Wasn't it just as well that the Izzie did procrastinate and not sign up for the other one when we first found out about it last year. So - being a good serpent - no more dilly dallying - got the starter kit for $$45 on the spot. Oh another advantage is that unlike the normal service - the usual $$60 connection fee does not apply.
Of course, there is a downside. You cannot get broadband and every time you want to ring some one, you got to enter an 8 digit account number followed by a 4 digit PIN and then the actual number you want to call. This poor serpent's fingers will be getting blister marks
But the Izzie does not mind. Saving $$16 per month on line rental is well worth such inconvenience to the Izzie. The main thing is - will soon be able to be online in the Lair. Any time we want podcasts and tasty morselses that are dinosaur dial up unfriendly, will just go to our usual locations or Petunia's place to get our fix.
So, today we bought 30 hours of prepaid dial up and topped up the ma's old account. Hoping that it should work since we'd already been using our computer over her place with Dodo and had no problems at all. With a bit of luck, the only thing we'll have to do is add the silly codes to the dial up number stored in the vaults of the Precioussss. Let's hope that the dial up folks don't get too fussy if a user rings from a different phone than usual.
So now we are back in the land of normal folks with landline phones, will have to get used to the end of blissful peace and quiet and to take appropriate measures against the Dark Forces. Got some useful Defence Against the Dark Arts tips that are so wicked that we have to share.
Don't get mad. Get even (snatched from the evil Australians at aussielj)
PS - the Izzie has been placed under the Imperius Curse by a certain
timatina and is bravely resisting the overwhelming power of this nasty nasty spell. But it is only a matter of time before we will succumb to its evil insidiousness. So just wait and see to find out what awful things she compels this serpent to do.