Lots of neighborhood yelling
Oct. 7th, 2022 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisSo all was going well. The game got under way and we got 3 runs and it was such fun. And then my internet died. ???!!!!
I fired up my phone's hot spot and got the game back while I tried to figure out the internet. It's clearly the modem or the juice to the modem. The cable company says it's not them and they will send a tech out tomorrow morning between 8-10 (and it will cost me $80 if the fault is mine).
Then I go back to the game. An email comes in from SteveTheLawyer. It basically says what he said several months ago. He's working with the investment company and should have something next week. (I'd look it up, but I'd swear that's what he said in August.) fine. whatever.
Then I go back to the game. The phone rings. It's SteveTheLawyer. I should not have picked up but I did. He asks how I am and I tell him I'm great because I'm watching my team in their first post season game in two decades.
There is no language in which that translate to anything other than PLEASE hang up so I can keep watching!!
But good old Steve did not get it. And he talked and he talked and he talked and he said exactly NOTHING he has not said a million times before. I finally got rid of him,
Then I go back to the game. This time I got to finish it but man, it was not easy.
Then I think about the internet problem and I check from the wall. It's a black cable. The one in th modem is white. WAIT!! Maybe the modem is trying to get some signal from TiVo still (this is totally not true and if I had thought about it another minute, I would have realized). so I removed the cable from the TiVo and plugged directly from wall to modem.
Rebooted. No joy. Well, maybe they have to flip a switch at HQ. So I wade through their stupid telephone tree only to get to "We are experiencing issues in your area that are causing an outage. We expect to have these issues resolved by 6:30 pm"
Holy fucking Mary.
But, the shrieks of joy and merriment heard in the neighborhood are a fun background to be so frustrated in.
And I appear to have a fair amount of data remaining on my phone making using it for internet very easy and cheap. So. Yeah. And, here's hoping for a nice 6:30.
Oh and yes, we won 4-0!
I fired up my phone's hot spot and got the game back while I tried to figure out the internet. It's clearly the modem or the juice to the modem. The cable company says it's not them and they will send a tech out tomorrow morning between 8-10 (and it will cost me $80 if the fault is mine).
Then I go back to the game. An email comes in from SteveTheLawyer. It basically says what he said several months ago. He's working with the investment company and should have something next week. (I'd look it up, but I'd swear that's what he said in August.) fine. whatever.
Then I go back to the game. The phone rings. It's SteveTheLawyer. I should not have picked up but I did. He asks how I am and I tell him I'm great because I'm watching my team in their first post season game in two decades.
There is no language in which that translate to anything other than PLEASE hang up so I can keep watching!!
But good old Steve did not get it. And he talked and he talked and he talked and he said exactly NOTHING he has not said a million times before. I finally got rid of him,
Then I go back to the game. This time I got to finish it but man, it was not easy.
Then I think about the internet problem and I check from the wall. It's a black cable. The one in th modem is white. WAIT!! Maybe the modem is trying to get some signal from TiVo still (this is totally not true and if I had thought about it another minute, I would have realized). so I removed the cable from the TiVo and plugged directly from wall to modem.
Rebooted. No joy. Well, maybe they have to flip a switch at HQ. So I wade through their stupid telephone tree only to get to "We are experiencing issues in your area that are causing an outage. We expect to have these issues resolved by 6:30 pm"
Holy fucking Mary.
But, the shrieks of joy and merriment heard in the neighborhood are a fun background to be so frustrated in.
And I appear to have a fair amount of data remaining on my phone making using it for internet very easy and cheap. So. Yeah. And, here's hoping for a nice 6:30.
Oh and yes, we won 4-0!
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Date: 2022-10-08 02:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-10-08 04:14 am (UTC)I think "PLEASE hang up so I can keep watching my game" is a perfectly acceptable thing to say, but I myself am so mealy-mouthed I'd just let the person yammer on. In fact, I have someone who calls and goes on and on about people I don't know. I always feel trapped. I think I have to have "something on the stove I have to go check - BYE."
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Date: 2022-10-08 09:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-10-08 12:50 pm (UTC)I do love that I was part of your dinner conversation!!