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Something I have been looking for... Egress 3.0

... Ill put it here to remind me to look at it again.


Egress 3.0

A collective sigh goes out....

... I had $200 left for the Taurus to get inspected, our last hope. $230 was the total for the inspection and new front brake pads and wipers. I can pull the extra 30 from something...whew.

Also I saved us $60 bucks in towing. The Stanza needs a new clutch system and was sitting at the garage. The garage is only a block away. I tested it out and I was able to start and drive the car in 3rd (could not even get the shifter into 1st or 2nd) and drove it home with out a hitch. I bet I could drive it to work that way... So we will sit the Stanza in the back until we can get a new clutch(Next tax refund most likely)

The subaru will go the donation route most likely. Anybody have a good way of siphoning gas. I had just filled it up before it died.

The washer and dryer did get picked up and the humid weather finnally broke.

July has been a bugger of a month. Lets see whats left. finish off moving- just a couple things, yard sale at the old place with left overs going to IMPACT, the piano schedualed for a Sunday(the last day we can be in there), the Peco bill for the old place is still looming. Then since I had to Dance with the security depost and made it into our last months rent we may have a bill from Kratz for damages to the old place. And then we have going back to school sometime in August...

I dread going back to school...

Moving updates... day 543

... Well we just about finished the MOVE. Just a couple things, clean one room and a yardsale oh and the person comging for the Piano and then we can sort through our stuff in the new place.

Post on the Piano... Winterroth & CO.

Did I mention that we moved... not directly I guess but through the DSL tails.

So we have an old upright Piano that we can not take with us. I will add a pic later.

Anyway I was looking up info on it and the company that created it.

First Lieutenant, Emil John Winterroth of Company L

Emil John Winterroth Emil John Winterroth in his evening clothes.

Emil John Winterroth born circa 1850. Served as a Lieutenant with the 9th New York National Guard unit from 1885. At age of 34 years, he enrolled in the 9th NY on May 2, 1898 at New York City, as second lieutenant, to serve two years; mustered in as first lieutenant, Company L, May 20, 1898. Discharged July 27, 1898; commissioned first lieutenant, May 20, 1898, with rank from same date, original. Around 1880, E. J. Winterroth founded the Winterroth & Co. Pianos, New York City. Winterroth & Co. Pianos had stores on 125th Street and 14th Street in NYC and other locations in Newburgh, NY and Jersey City, NJ. The last store closed around 1930. (special thanks to Mr. Winterroth's Great-Great Niece, Laura Winterroth, for sharing the wonderful photo and information)


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"Matthew Mclaughlin" wrote:
> some one as give us a Winterroth up right. It's old but I have one Idea
> how old. There's an address for New York City on a label. Does any one
> know anything about this brand or where I might look for information.

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Pierce Piano Atlas shows the following:

Winterroth & CO., 105 E. 14th St., New York Est. 1885
1890 - 25000
1895 - 31000
1900 - 36000
1905 - 42000
1910 - 47500
1915 - 51900

Using these numbers you should be able to determine the age of your piano.

Go bother this guy...

Go bother this guy and make sure you leave your mouse pointer on him untill he is done.

... wrap up on the DSL move.

Update 07/20/2006

Ok, to wrap up this part of the story.

Satuday we get a curtisey call from VOL: Your move request has been recieved (about time)
Sunday: Your SRD is the 24th of July, blah. Guess I'll have to call Dave on Monday...
Monday, I decided to give Dave a chance to call me back... nothing and then I get an email from my wife, from HOME!

So its back up and running. I never did hear from Dave. Bad CSR you told me you would call me back...

The Wireless modem/router is in the front of the apartment(2nd and 3rd floor of a twin.). I can sit out back with my iPaq and get as good a connection as if I were in the house.

So I'm guessing my next post should be moving from here to a house in a year or so... with FIOS? Who knows...

CAR UPDATE.. .. .. .. .. . ...

Just to get it all down for future laughs... Last week Sarah's car kicked it. Needs a whole new clutch...900 some buckaroonies.

Next up is the Tarus back for another go. It has been waiting in the wings and just needs to pass inspection.

THanks to good friends we had to cars offered up for us to use untill then. THe taurus goes in on the for the inspection on the 24th of July.

Verizon DSL move woes...

I pulled this post over from my reviews on broadbandreports.com.
My blog on my communitions things.




Hit my first snag with Verizon DSL.

SRD came and went with no Internet light on my Modem.

Called tech support at about 10:30ish. She can find no notes as to why they have not set it up yet. I have to call Friday when the network group is open...ugh.

Called back today. The first guy had to call other groups and was just telling me that they are still provisioning my line and it had not yet been disconnected from the other apartment. What! That was supposed to be done on the 30th of June! He says they may know a new SRD on the 18th... No, no, no. No acceptable at all. I calmly tell him that is very unacceptable and I need to talk to someone who can do something... He doesn't think anything can be done but sends me to a supervisor.

Dave I think it is, Makes some calls and find that the line was in fact nver disconnected from the other apartment as it should have been. Im still not sure what this means because DSL did not work there on the 30th. He is able to call the Provisioning department and put a rush on it and thinks it will be done today. He said he will watch it and as soon as he see's that that is done he will push the reconnect through. So it could possibley done today, tomorrow or early next week... blah. He is going to call me when something happens.

Fone Phun

Just to keep up with the title of the blog... Like I have told others this is justa snippet of our lives... If I blogged everything it would take most of the day and it would overwhelm and consume you.

Friday came and first the phone dropped off and then the DSL went :o( How odd it is for the computer to be sitting there all lonesome. My wife doesn't touch it. I sit down and then remember that I can't get online and play a game or mess with the music. The Zone Alarm meter shows incoming and out going so I peek over at the modem but no internet light...

Anyway, we get over to the new apartment @5ish and the phone line is dead. I try what I think are all the lines in the house nothing. We wait over the weekend. On Monday still nothing. I call and check the website. Both say that the line was completed and is working. I set up an appointment for the 5th for service and then check the outside box. Everything is plugged in. I test it with a regular phone and get a dial tone on both ports there. Hmmm... It must be something in the house.

I look all over for a magic switch, I try all the ports with the regular phone and nothing. My wife calls our friends who just moved out as I ignore what looks like a network hub up stairs. They tell her that both of there lines worked fine...BOTH? I run back up stairs and take another look at that network hub. It's just a line splitter or something... I plug into the one labeled with their old number, nothing. Then the other number which must have been the added line for the office... Bingo!! They switched us over to the new line that only has one jack....

I call Verizon to cancel the service request and find out how to switch the lines. The only people available are the repair call center. I try to explain the deal but she thinks I don't under stand and that they only hook up to the out side box if the outlets in the house don't work its not there problem. I do understand but I don't know if she does. Ill wait and talk to the regular people on the 5th...

NADM :: The Website, my new Web Page

I added a link on the left for the homepage I am building with Google Pages. NADM :: The Website, it's still in progress like everything else...

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