Not a good Technology Day.....

....OK, I'm not a techie by any stretch of the word. I USE technology every day. But to know all the nuances of each machine and how to fix them when they're down. No way in hell. So two very important pieces of equipment are giving me fits right now, and I'm not sure how to fix them. One is my phone. For about a month now, I've not been getting voice mail! I thought, perhaps, it was just because no one wanted to talk to me. But I just went through the voice mails that we'd received and there were some very recent ones that had never been listened to! There is a special dial-tone that we hear when we're supposed to get when we have new messages. It's not been there for a while. And I'm not sure what the hell is up with that. *sigh* Add the television, and my lack of dish on one television in my house, and you have a grumpy girl. I was on the phone with the dish tech support, when they asked me to unhook my receiver and replug it in on another television..... well, this would be fine and dandy if the back of our entertainment center didn't resemble a spaghetti nest! *sigh* So, after unplugging the wrong thing, I told the guy (in my I'm-so-sick-and-aggravated-at-the-state-of-the-wires voice), that I'd have my husband call back later. Which is what I'll do. I don't feel well enough to try to deal with another person for a few hours whom I can't even understand anyway. Seriously, I'm not prejudice, but it is a bit difficult to understand a person who just came to America. I'm happy to give them a job. Really, I am, but oy, does it have to be in communications???