C'mon Everybody it's....Blanket Time?

I slept on a blanket that worked last night. It was the same blanket I had before, but I plugged in a different controller. My housemate has a king sized bed, and the blanket on that has one controller for each side. She doesn't need the other side warmed, and that controller plugs into my blanket so...it works. No fancy digitial display, no timer, nothing but a dial and an on/off switch. Much better.

I rang Sunbeam yesterday and after a lot of talking they gave me a Freepost address to send the controller back to, and are sending me a simple controller (with a dial, and an on/off switch - just the same as the one I'm borrowing from my housemate) as a temporary measure. Personally I'll be just as happy to keep this temporary one. I don't need the fancy stuff.

It's good to be an 'engineer' though (yes, I can call myself that, I did a degree :). I did a lot of diagnostic testing by plugging the power cord into various power boards, and wall sockets; with or without other things on and off. Thus when they asked me questions I was able to answer them fully. At the end of the coversation the woman I was talking to said "You really tested this thorougly, didn't you?" *grin*

Sunbeam definitely gets a 'thumbs up' for customer service. The amount of effort they're going to is quite amazing.

Hmm

A comment by a friend of mine made me realise something: I'm terrible at keeping in contact. If I don't see you on a MUSH or somewhere else I hang out, then it doesn't happen. It doesn't seem to matter how much the person means to me either, which is worrying. I have all the best intentions, and sometimes start well by keeping up with email, but quickly I fade off, and contact is lost.

I've found I have email addresses all over my system at home and at work, and I don't even know who some of them belong to, or if they work. I really need to set aside time to keep in contact with those who are important to me, even if it's just an email.

Someone prod me occasionally. Please?

Edit: I'm currently going through my email addresses to clean them up and put them all in one, easily accessible place. Then I need to write some emails.