Yay, no more cracked-out phone!

For some reason, about a month ago, my phone went kind of blinky on me. It would tell me that I had voicemail, but when I pressed "send" to listen, like it told me to, I only got, "Your call cannot be completed as dialed." WTF? The number for voicemail is _programmed_ into my phone; it's not something I dial and thus susceptible to error. Besides, it had always worked in the past.

I find out a bit later that although I could recieve text messages, I couldn't send them. Huh.

So I went into a Verizon store this evening and told them my issues, plus I wanted to switch to a Sacramento phone number, so that when people call me, they aren't dialing a _Kansas_City_ number. The first thing they suggest I do (about the voicemail issue) is update my phone, which is an easy automated thing. But dialing *228 like they told me to got me a recording that said, "Thank you for calling Surewest's wireless update service. If you are not a Surewest customer, please hang up." So I did. Surewest WTF?! Why does my phone think it's a Surewest phone? The tech service girl behind the counter asks me a little patronizingly, "Are you sure you're a Verizon customer?" Geez.

Anyway. More technical details and issues that ended up an hour later in me getting a whole new phone (though the same model as my old one) and a California number, and life is good now.

So I am once again part of the modern world, and can now be reached at 916-764-4696.

Yay, no more cracked-out phone!

For some reason, about a month ago, my phone went kind of blinky on me. It would tell me that I had voicemail, but when I pressed "send" to listen, like it told me to, I only got, "Your call cannot be completed as dialed." WTF? The number for voicemail is _programmed_ into my phone; it's not something I dial and thus susceptible to error. Besides, it had always worked in the past.

I find out a bit later that although I could recieve text messages, I couldn't send them. Huh.

So I went into a Verizon store this evening and told them my issues, plus I wanted to switch to a Sacramento phone number, so that when people call me, they aren't dialing a _Kansas_City_ number. The first thing they suggest I do (about the voicemail issue) is update my phone, which is an easy automated thing. But dialing *228 like they told me to got me a recording that said, "Thank you for calling Surewest's wireless update service. If you are not a Surewest customer, please hang up." So I did. Surewest WTF?! Why does my phone think it's a Surewest phone? The tech service girl behind the counter asks me a little patronizingly, "Are you sure you're a Verizon customer?" Geez.

Anyway. More technical details and issues that ended up an hour later in me getting a whole new phone (though the same model as my old one) and a California number, and life is good now.

So I am once again part of the modern world, and can now be reached at 916-764-4696.