Well, within the first week of service, my DSL connection has already gone kaput! It is as dead as our good friend, Johnny Carson. I say good friend, because, I remember him visiting us in our living room nearly every night during my childhood.
I called the phone company yesterday and spent 30 minutes on the phone with some tech and went through this or that trying to find the cause of my problem. The solution finally turned out to be: Well, I'll have to write up a ticket and let the local engineers figure out what is going on. If it is still down all day tomorrow, give us another call. [Paraphrased according to my poor memory of the conversation]
My third world phone company does not understand that just because we all live in a very small town some of us don't sit around with our thumbs up our asses wondering why the sun does not continue to shine during rainstorms or why you can only make hay while the sun is shining. I can tell you that I'll, likely have email piling up higher than the snow on top of, oh, let's say Pike's Peak. Surely there is some snow up there, by now. I was disappointed at the lack of snow in the Pennsylvania stadiums all over yesterday. I was especially hoping to see the Philadelphia fans pummel the Falcon players with snowballs during game play, like they are wont to do. My disappointment has really left me jaded about snowfall reports. I am not going to assume there is any anywhere other than at the top of the rockies, despite anything Susie might have said.
Anyway, any posting from my end is going to be mostly non-existent until they figure out what is wrong with my DSL. My only other option, the one I am using currently, is to tie up my business line connecting by using my dial-up connection. My business is currently barely trickling in and I am not all that keen on having everyone who tries to call me today getting nothing but a busy signal. I am hopeful most of you will understand.
Posted by Tiger at January 24, 2005 09:14 AM | TrackBackYipes!! Now I understand why it took you a while to respond to my email...
I feel your pain, hon--having had to deal with the same phone company, it's going to be one heck of a hassle trying to get them to do their job. They're the only phone company for most of Central Texas and they know it, and they're about as horrible to deal with as the DMV or the IRS. Yuck!
My Mom's tangling horns with them as well. I'll see if she has any advice on how to get those lazy jackasses to jump to it...
--TwoDragons
Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at January 24, 2005 10:21 AMOh no sorry about that---I will miss you Tig and hope you are back sooner than later. Will stay on the lookout for you.
Damn the phone company they know when they have us over the barrel and use it everytime.
Oh, it was working fine by 8:30 or thereabouts. I am sure the problem was someone flipped a switch that had been accidentally flicked of about the close of business, Saturday.
Posted by: Tig at January 24, 2005 03:52 PM