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19/5/06 07:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsYounger Girl is sick, for the second day in a row--croup-like cough, stomach ache, lassitude. Tonight she and I were supposed to meet up with her Girl Scout troop at Great America for a sleepover at the park, but we have called her leader to cancel our participation--the fact that the kid herself suggested the cancellation tells me that she's not faking. So I'm home (again) for the day.
Meanwhile: we switched our internet and phone service over to Earthlink, and have had nothing but, um, wrinkles in the fabric of our lives thereby. Spouse, being the technologically stubborn type, has been all over them (which appears to mean riding herd on technicians from Earthlink, Covad, and ATT (who own the phone lines over which all the services actually travel). Yesterday the nice man from ATT who was supposed to have been here at 9 am showed up at 2 (miscommunication at their end) and did some magic stuff and the noise on the line was thereby significantly reduced. And then, about 8pm last night, all phone and internet connection ceased. I mean, gone. You pick up the phone and hear nothing, not even the hollow roar of your own voice coming back at you. We have call-forwarded the house phone to my cell, but even so... And fortunately we had not yet cancelled the cable internet service, so I can come here at bitch about it to you all. But it seems like I'm home (again) for the day...unless, of course, they can't fix the problem until Monday.
Technology is my friend, except when it totally sucks.
Meanwhile: we switched our internet and phone service over to Earthlink, and have had nothing but, um, wrinkles in the fabric of our lives thereby. Spouse, being the technologically stubborn type, has been all over them (which appears to mean riding herd on technicians from Earthlink, Covad, and ATT (who own the phone lines over which all the services actually travel). Yesterday the nice man from ATT who was supposed to have been here at 9 am showed up at 2 (miscommunication at their end) and did some magic stuff and the noise on the line was thereby significantly reduced. And then, about 8pm last night, all phone and internet connection ceased. I mean, gone. You pick up the phone and hear nothing, not even the hollow roar of your own voice coming back at you. We have call-forwarded the house phone to my cell, but even so... And fortunately we had not yet cancelled the cable internet service, so I can come here at bitch about it to you all. But it seems like I'm home (again) for the day...unless, of course, they can't fix the problem until Monday.
Technology is my friend, except when it totally sucks.