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Party for One

Twice, Robin checked with Verizon to make sure he didn't need to be at the new apartment when the phone's finally turned back on. Twice, Verizon assured him it was solely an outside problem. This morning the technician called from the new place asking where Robin was, as he needs to get inside. Robin's on the way up there now (it's only a 10-minute drive but as we don't have a car yet we need to allow a half hour by bus) to await the techie's return. I have no idea when I'll see Robin again, and the party's in four hours. We have no ice, no paper cups or paper plates, we were going to schlep up the hill this morning to get all that. I'm not exactly physically fit on the best of days, and even less so today. I have no idea who's coming - I know Torsten is as he's renting a van, and DocTech and Lili (I think) and Dexter from the Firesign chats, and Julia and maybe Seth, maybe Jose from the comicart list... it's hard to plan when it's so up in the air. But as they say, improvisation is the mother of a nervous breakdown, or something like it... Update: Yippie - after three weeks the phone line in the new place is finally operational (now for the DSL; with any luck it'll be working by moving day!) and Robin's coming back!