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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.
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.
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Date: 2008-08-13 10:05 pm (UTC)"Give me internet, or give me death!" I would agree. :)
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Date: 2008-08-16 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 02:48 am (UTC)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*)
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Date: 2008-08-16 04:05 am (UTC)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. ;)
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Date: 2008-08-16 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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