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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 14, 2010
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MetroCast’s phone service
by mal fuller
has a rechargeable bat-
Contributing Writer
tery in its telephone mo-
dem. The purpose of that
Malzy and I, along with battery is to sustain our
Malzy’s mother, her dog phone service during an
Zipper and (of course) our interruption of electrical
pussycat Diablo, spent service. Unfortunately,
Christmas Eve and Day the rechargeable battery
together. I cut the giant will only keep the phone
rib roast Malzy’s moth- available for eight hours
er brought in half and standby or a much short-
cooked one half medium er 45 minutes of actual
rare in our old Glenwood talk time. The potential
Kitchen Range. I also for losing telephone ser-
baked some Russet po- vice during a power out-
tatoes and cooked some age makes me edgy.
petite peas. We also had Therefore, when the
real butter on those po- phone stopped working on
tatoes. All in all it was a Saturday afternoon during
meal to die for (pun in- the time that damaging
tended). I have the other winds and monster snow
half of that delicious piece depths were forecast, I
of meat tightly wrapped was not happy. Our Inter-
and frozen. In about one net connection went dead
month we’ll have a repeat
Here’s a photo of the back of the real Wolfeboro Town Hall, which has won at least a small
too. Surprisingly, our
performance. reprieve in the battle to do the building justice. Opponents of the project desperately allude cable television signal re-
As is his custom, Zipper to crumbing bricks. Can you see any? I can’t. mained intact. Of course,
barked his brains out at I could neither phone nor
Diablo as soon as he came their additional forecast past. Also, Malzy relies on to outside help during an email MetroCast to re-
through the door! You’d for high winds. As one an electric stairway chair emergency. port the problem. Nearly
be proud of Diablo if you member of a Lakes Re- to get up to and down As I’ve mentioned, Malzy two hours later the Inter-
had witnessed how long gion Forum once put it, from his bedroom. Our and I switched to Metro- net and telephone service
he put up with Zipper’s the station’s newscast telephone is a critical link Cast Telephone last year. See rAmBling on 10
barking before he taught motto: “No one covers New
Zipper yet another in an Hampshire like we do.”
ongoing series of lessons. Should instead be: “No
Then, when Zipper turned one scares New Hamp-
his back (along with oth- shire like we do.”
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er anatomical features), As the weekend began
Diablo had a slice of Zip- to materialize, the early
per’s tail. Usually one light snowfalls we received
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