AAAARGH!

Aug. 13th, 2008 04:30 pm
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Yes, I've been home from vacation for a while now. No, I haven't been too insanely busy. And yet I've dropped off the face of the earth. Why is that? BECAUSE OUR STUPID INTERNET HAS BEEN OUT FOR DAYS!

Seriously, this internet service seems to be getting  worse by the week. Used to be it'd cut out briefly every once in a while, not really a big deal, and it'd be back in a few seconds or minutes. Then it started going out for hours at a time. More and more frequently, until it was doing so every couple of days. And now it's graduated to just stopping entirely for days at a time.

And yet they keep telling us they can't really find anything wrong, don't know what's happening, it should be working. We don't even bother trying to go through the company anymore - we've got the repairman's and his supervisor's direct numbers. By this point, it has gone so beyond, "Heh, bit addicted to the internet, maybe? Guess I'll find something else to do for a while..." to, "Give me internet, or give me death!" AUGH!

It's not just inconvenience, it's not just being cut off from friends for a while, we're trying to run two small businesses here, my mom's book/website and my editing, and they both rely almost entirely on the internet, and I have deadlines/time pressures on several things at the moment, and even the primarily non-internet things I'm working on require internet for a lot of fact checking, and even the dictionary on Word won't work without internet, and - *deep breath* This. Is. Not. Working. I think I really am going to cry if it doesn't get sorted out soon.

Heh. Can you tell I'm a tad upset at the moment? :P At any rate, we had three repairmen here for most of the day, and things seem to be working again for now, so... we'll see. If you don't hear from me again for a while... yeah.

*sighs* Gonna go get some work done while I can.

Date: 2008-08-13 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calen-greenleaf.livejournal.com
Poor you. I hate it when stuff like that happens.

"Give me internet, or give me death!" I would agree. :)

Date: 2008-08-16 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imbecamiel.livejournal.com
Heh heh, yeah, I've been feeling quite sorry for myself... Fortunately, it seems to be up to stay now... for a while, at least. ;P

Date: 2008-08-14 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scarvenartist.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'd noticed you hadn't been around, and I was wondering if it might be something like this, due to your internet's tendencies towards the haphazard.... :P Oooo, so frustrating.

By this point, it has gone so beyond, "Heh, bit addicted to the internet, maybe? Guess I'll find something else to do for a while..." to, "Give me internet, or give me death!" AUGH!

Ahaha! I SO know what you mean! Often, when we've had outages like this, I'll start off thinking, "Okay...maybe I do need some internet away-time, and there were a few books I was planning on reading...." But that usually degenerates into hair-tearing and gnashing of teeth after a few days, and possibly a few attempts to piggy-back on other wireless signals in the neighborhood. (Probably not an option in your case though, you being so out in the boonies. ;D)

I do hope it's stabilized now though! That is just so, SO frustrating, to always have it going out like that. (Not to mention, teh internets are lifeless without y'all around. *wanders around feeling a bit lost*)

Date: 2008-08-16 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imbecamiel.livejournal.com
Bleh, yeah, I've been feeling quite sorry for myself. At first I tried to just focus on other things I could do, especially some that I'd tend to procrastinate normally, get some good writing time in, but pretty soon... All I could focus on were all the more pressing things that I needed to get done online, and any attempt at creative writing was killed ded. Heh, and yeah, out here - definitely no chance of catching any other signals. There are, occasionally, a few disadvantages to living in the boonies. ;P

At least I had some editing I was able to get done while it was down, and I've been doing a ton of drawing. And it seems to be finally up again, now! For the moment. Though it did go out again for a while yesterday - but apparently that was because they were trying to do something more to stabilize it. Bleh. Stupid internet. *rolls eyes*

Hehe, oh well, I'm in a much better mood, now that I'm no longer in withdrawal, and getting things done. Though I suspect I may soon be in another crisis, as I'm looking at a serious Mountain Dew shortage, here... *prepares to freak out if we don't go shopping soon*

I've seriously got to go to bed. I suspect I'm not being very coherent. ;)

Date: 2008-08-16 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silivren-tinu.livejournal.com
Oh dear, poor you! *huggles* Internet problems can be so infuriating, especially if the experts can't find out what's wrong. :P I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, I hope the problem will be solved soon!

Date: 2008-08-18 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imbecamiel.livejournal.com
Thanks, mellon-nin. :) It seems to have finally settled down a bit, for the moment... It was out again for a while the other day, but apparently that was because they were trying to do something more to stabilize it. :P Hopefully it'll stay up for a while, now...

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