The Early-Warning Frog


Ethel, the Early-Warning Frog
If you throw a frog into hot water, she'll jump out. But if you put her in tepid water and turn the heat up slowly, she'll get used to it and stay until the water's so hot it boils her.

Unless, that is, she's a very smart frog and catches on quick. Then when the heat gets too much for her, she jumps out before she gets boiled. If the other frogs see her, they might jump out in time, too. That makes her an


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    Thursday, December 15, 2005
    Gone

    My phone's been disconnected for lack of payment. A bit of a surprise since I only owed them a couple hundred $$ and they didn't give me but a few days' notice. I'm trying to work it out. At the moment I'm at the office using their computer while I'm on hold with the phone company.

    I just talked to them. They claim I owe $500 (twice as much as the notice said I owed and as my records show I owed). They won't reconnect until the entire balance they're showing is paid. I'm history. It'll be months before I can get that kind of money together--if ever.

    If you want to help, my PayPal acct is still active but I was going thru a button at a Verizon site which is locked and in any case will be taken down in a few days. I don't otherwise know how you could do it.

    So I guess this is Good-bye. It was fun while it lasted. I'll miss you.


    Posted at 03:38 pm by Ethel, the Early-Warning Frog

    Jeff
    December 16, 2005   12:07 PM PST
     
    Nooooooooo!
    Eric Martin
    December 27, 2005   05:48 PM PST
     
    Mick,

    If you find access somewhere, and you read this, email me and let me know if there is some way I can help. I can do my part to have a bloggy fundraiser and see what we can come up with.
    Kathy
    December 28, 2005   01:20 PM PST
     
    Hey - Let us know how we can help. Give us an email address that PayPal knows - that should be all we need to send what we can your way. Your voice is too unique for us to lose.
    Diana
    January 2, 2006   05:47 PM PST
     
    I hope you can get to a library or Internet cafe and let us know how we can help.







    eRobin
    January 2, 2006   07:43 PM PST
     
    I'll add my voices to the chorus. I don't have a PayPal acct but we only need someone to have one we can use and then fundraise away!
    Mick
    January 12, 2006   03:27 PM PST
     
    Thanks, all. My Paypal account is still active but both the addresses listed belonged to the Verizon acct. I'll have to give them a new one that isn't. When I do, I'll let you know here.
    Eric Martin
    January 17, 2006   03:31 PM PST
     
    That and/or email us Mick. And like I said, we can do cross-blog fundraisers.

    Definitely a worthy cause.
    Mick
    January 18, 2006   02:35 PM PST
     
    My Paypal password doesn't work. Maybe I changed it and didn't write it down but I don't remember doing that. They're sending it to me by snail mail (no option to give them another email address). It should take a week or so. In the meantime, I may have another place to go to get online that more often accessible than the office. I might be able to post occasionally. We'll see.
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