home from Pennsic

[cellio]

I am home from Pennsic. It was fun -- good music, good camp, visited with some but not all friends, weather was mostly fine. More later. It began inauspiciously: a couple hours after I arrived it rained, followed by rain, followed by a storm (just for some variety, you know), followed by rain, and then a sprinkle (you tease!) followed by rain, followed by... you get the idea. That went on for about a day and a half (with two camp cars stuck in the mud trying to park) and then it cleared up. And as I said, it was fun otherwise. Rain is good for the land; we just need to work on distribution over time. :-)

While driving to pick up Erik from Mary's Assisted-Living Resort and Spa, Feline Edition (everything was fine, no problems), my other cat-sitter called. I don't use the phone while driving, so I returned the call a few minutes later and it went to voicemail. A few minutes after that he returned the call and my phone never rang (went straight to voicemail), just like Mary's call to let me know she was ready for Erik hand-off. But between those two calls the phone rang normally. This happens every now and then, seemingly randomly, and has happened with multiple phones. I assume the problem is Verizon, not my phone. How bizarre.

What'd I miss here? (And in the world, I suppose, but I have a pile of newspapers to help with that. Yes, I'd rather get the obsolete-by-the-time-I-see-them papers (and have a trusted party bring them in) than tell a stranger that the house he comes to every day will be vacant for a week...)

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[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Re phones: Steve & I frequently have the same problem trying to reach other with T-Mobile. It's got to be on their end, since we have the exact same phone. A few times, I've seen him at a distance & phone to get his attention (for example, at an amusement park 2 weeks ago) -- & it went straight to voicemail! It just seems to be a fact of life, possibly governed by proximity to a cell tower or phone "traffic" density.