It’s probably not politically correct to call it a “Chinese fire drill” anymore. Would an “Asian fire drill” be better?

Anyway, because Innovative Telephone Company is so third world that it doesn’t have to adhere to FCC requirements about porting land-line numbers to cell phones, we have been forced to get a new phone number for Sun Dog House.

That’s okay, over the next year, we’re going to slowly switch all of our advertising to reflect the cell numbers and get rid of our expensive business land line.

Anyway, we have ordered installation of our business number at the house across the street and a new residential number (773-DOGS) for SunDog House .

So this morning before beginning another busy work day, we had to run across the street and call a special number to get our business line transferred to there. Then we had to come back to SunDog House and repeat the process. We also ordered call forwarding, so that if we are staying at SunDog House, the business number will ring here.

The successful transfer of the business number took only a couple of minutes. (Surprise!) but when we came back to SunDog House to repeat the process, there was no dial tone. (Surprise!)

Ha! So we had to run back across the street to let them know, since we couldn’t call from SunDog House!

Actually, Michael called from his cell phone. But we only have one phone which is not cordless, so I did have to keep running back and forth in the rain and mud to plug it into this jack and that jack, just to be sure. A comical situation indeed.

Eventually, the phone company was able to get us a dial tone and the new number, but they can’t do the call forwarding thing until tomorrow. So the nice, cordless answering machine phone is across the street in the crappy house where the business number is and I’m at nice comfy SunDog House with a crappy corded phone with a ridiculous shrill ring.

Tomorrow, Ida at Innovative has promised me that she will activate call forwarding first thing in the morning.

I hope so.

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