they mock me!
Saturday, October 11, 2003
(written @ 5:40pm)They do this on purpose, I know they do.
I was just sitting down, had perused some of the blogs I visit (remembering domains by memory because Blogrolling appeared to be down for maintenance)... and then I decided it was time to finally change my eBay ID to coinicide with my domain name. I had just tuned WinAmp to a favorite streaming station and it had run for about a minute when what happens next?
My cable internet bites the big one.
*frown* Get up and go unplug the cable modem, count to 15. Plug cable modem back in. No lighty-lighty. Grr.
Call Cox tech support.
CSR: How long ago did it go down?
Me: Less than five minutes ago.
CSR: Let me check some things. (pause) Do me a favor and unplug the cable modem for about 5-10 seconds and plug it back in.
Me: Ok. (obliging, even tho' I'd already done that) It's plugged back in. Cable light didn't even attempt to flicker except when the power plug was put back in.
CSR: Hmm. Let me check your neighbors to see if there's an outage. (pause) Wow. Yup, there's definitely an outage--about a six to seven block area.
Me: Figures.
So he goes about reporting my outage report and sets up a tentative dispatch (procedure, tracking purposes) for tomorrow even though chances are it will be fixed today.
Dammit. Guess I have to pull out some CDs to listen to instead. There's a specific type of music I prefer to listen to when I'm either A) at work, or B) at home sitting at my desk, and it's mostly new agey stuff, Celtic and whatnot. I usually have a couple of Shoutcast stations bookmarked that I pick from that are new age/ambient, and that is usually what I listen to. I do have CDs of my own that are ambient/new age/celtic, but sometimes I prefer the mix that I get from the stations. Oh well.
I wonder how long this outage is gonna last?
Eh. I've got some sculpting to do anyway.
Update: Entry added @ 8:00p, outage lasted almost 2.5 hrs. Not too bad I guess.
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