Abby, Zoë and Enzo

We've been having issues with the telephone here in the apartment.  To start off, we didn't have one at all.  The first phone that Vanda brought by ended up not being able to dial, something was wrong with the buttons.  When someone would call here the connection was awful.  We let Vanda know this and so she brought a new phone, but we still couldn't dial out.  However, when we got a call in, it sounded fine.  Vanda had a technician come out to check the lines.  She just made the call today and we didn't expect to see the guy until sometime tomorrow, but he showed up late this afternoon. 

I was in the apartment alone with the girls, as Chris and Ernie were out getting some things, when the guy downstairs called up to say that the phone man was here.  I didn't understand exactly what the security guy downstairs was saying, and I asked him if I needed to go downstairs and he said yes so I grabbed the girls and locked the door and started towards the elevators.  When we got to them I saw that someone was coming up and it ended up being the service guy, so back to the apartment we went.  He checked out the phone, and I used the computer set up to call Ernie's cell phone and tell him that the telephone man was here, luckily they were in the garage on their way up.  I told the service guy that my husband was on his way up and asked if he could wait a moment.  He said something about just needing to go to the garage and then he'd be back.  It didn't take all that long, although the DSL went out and then came back a couple of times while he was working in the basement, but he determined that the line was fine and it was just the phone so we yet again had to have Vanda bring us a different phone.  The new phone should be here tomorrow morning.