Sharon,
What an ordeal!  I do hope it is all fixed now I would hate to have to visit 
you in the slammer smiles!
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: Well, I'm out of Jail. (smile)


> Hi guys!
>
> I actually hooked up my computer again yesterday afternoon, but didn't 
> feel
> like writing then.  I've been vaguely sick for maybe three days.  Anyway,
> I'll tell you what happened.
>
> Last Tuesday night I was getting ready for bed.  It was after 11:00 at
> night.  Jose came toward my room and asked if I'd called 911, saying that
> the police were here.  I told him no, but thought that maybe I'd pressed a
> button with a bag I was moving.  I heard their radio, and one of them 
> said,
> in a kind voice, "We just want to make sure she's okay."  Later Blanca 
> told
> me that jose was confused at first, because the number that called 911 was
> not their number, but then he remembered me.
>
> The next morning, while I was at Daybreak, the police came again!  Blanca
> told me that they wanted to look in my room.  That afternoon I called my
> phone company's center for people with disabilities.  the rep said that if 
> a
> battery on your caller ID box or TTY was dying, it could cause something 
> to
> dial 911.  Jose checked my answering machine that has caller ID, but found
> no batteries, nor any indication that a bettery was dying.  He did find
> batteries in my phone, so I took them out.  Later I called the police
> station to let them know who I was and what was going on.
>
> Then on Thursday morning, maybe around quarter till 5, Blanca woke me up,
> saying that the police were here again!  One of them told me firmly that
> they couldn't have this happening like clockwork, and if it keeps 
> happening,
> they would have to issue a citation.  He told me to get it fixed.  After
> they were gone, I got up maybe more than once, and disconnected my phone,
> answering machine and computer.  Later in the morning before leaving for
> Daybreak, I tried to call someone to see what I could do, the phone didn't
> work.  Thanking that maybe I should rearrange a connection, I waited until 
> I
> got home that afternoon.  I connected the phone directly to the wall jack,
> but it was still dead.  Eventually I talked with a rep from the repair
> department.  She tested my line and said that a repair man would have to
> come out, and it sounded to me like he would come no earlier than 7:00 p.m
> the next day.  He came the next day, while I was gone.  Apparently, it was 
> a
> bad connection, and he thinks that the repair work he did may have solved
> the problem.  I am hooking things up, one at a time: my phone, then the
> computer, and probably tomorrow my answering machine.  Keep holding your
> breath! (grin)
>
> Sharon