January 2004 Archives

My old high school buddy, Sudip, has headed off to Iraq for a year or so. I've been receiving emails from him every so often with updates on what's been going on, so I decided to create this web site for him to get the updates out to an even wider audience. Basically though, it's just going to be his words from the emails he sends me. I hope you will find it interesting to hear his perspective.

Sorry for all the confusion. But, our phone number will now remain the same. If you want all the gory details, head on over to Brian's page and read about it here. Again, sorry for all the confusion, but if you've ever tried getting a straight answer out of the phone company, you will know where I'm coming from...

Well, the Verizon guy showed up at our house today unexpectedly (he wasn't supposed to be there until tomorrow, after Cavalier disconnected the old line). I explained that to him, and told him he could go ahead and hook it up if he wanted to and was allowed under the rules, and he discovered that we had a Verizon line and a Cavalier line running to the box outside. So he just plugged the Verizon one into where our phone normally runs, and presto! We have our phone. The new number is 703-242-1738. We're out of luck on DSL for a while I think, as they were not able to set it up until after the phone was connected. Unfortunately, that may mean a bit of a wait on the Christmas photos, sorry...

At any rate, feel free to give us a call tonight to make sure the new number works! :-)

Since we have been gone for the past two weeks, you wouldn't have been able to reach us anyway. But now that we're back, I can finally take care of issues like our phone troubles. It looks right now like we will be switching over next Thursday or Friday. So keep using the cell phone numbers for now (and we'll actually try to keep them turned on, Dad!), until we get this thing worked out. Thanks!