small amusing things

[unicornduke]

project: get my parents moving on projects is going well, I helped my mom paint most of a room in the rental this afternoon, high priority since they finally have renters moving in feb 1st. it took 30 mins of her flitting around doing sanding and wandering away and me taping things and then we got to painting. I rollered and she did brush touchups of corners and edges. I'll need to roller the main areas again tomorrow but progress! There is a second room and then we'll switch to their house doing primer on some walls there. 

My phone has decided to receive group text messages again, verizon must have changed something on their end. I'm still using a unihertz phone and just accepted that I wouldn't receive group texts, the only ones I am regularly in are my family group chat or my parents and I. So I could just ask my parents if there was group texts in the family group chat. This actually worked okay. Not great, but I didn't miss much. But something changed, I now get all the group texts. 

early bedtime today I think, two loads of straw spread, moved a bunch of equipment, pulled a lot of twine out of the straw shredder too. 

Comments

[reedrover]

Verizon had a global outage yesterday for *some* user IDs. I wonder if you were one of them, and when they got your ID back up the reset fixed the issue?

[unicornduke]

Unrelated entirely! I started getting group text messages sometime around New Years. I'm definitely seeing some kind of cell service problem from the outage still but I suspect it is related to signal strength from the towers since it seems cranky about giving me good cell service in the house when it used to be better. But the wifi picks up the slack, so it's all good.