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I am back.
Monday 11:30am to Wednesday 1pm-ish being "gone" has swamped me with over 500 posts in the feeds, zero DW comments, zero fiber blog contents, 2 emails (plus something I sent myself so I didn't lose it), and something in the neighborhood of 5 months' worth of average phone usage (my plan has about three years worth of normal usage allotted per month, but any cheaper plan has horrendously restricted data caps--- I'm not a phone person.)
Monday I consumed all the remaining rum, 3 limes, a drunken "splash" of grenadine---- combined into "punch". Then I discovered it wasn't tart enough and added apple cider vinegar. I will say that there is one benefit to making rum punch after you've already started drinking... you don't care if you get it wrong.
I've slept about 7 hours total.
I'm so upset about everything that I feel completely overwhelmed. And honestly... all I had to do was call the ISP and wait for the box to arrive.
I have to say that I am absolutely thrilled with the customer service by my ISP. I waited less than 3 minutes total on hold in 5 calls. It would have been less if I could have found the direct tech support phone number, but I lost patience with web browsing via itty bitty phone screen after I'd found the main number. They were happy to direct my calls.
Whenever the local phone company started coming out with their cheap DSL service, they kept hounding us to try them. I kept saying, "I don't care that I'm paying 5 times what you're advertising... your rate is going to go up in 30, 90, or 360 days and you won't tell me what it will cost then. Your rates are contingent on me buying other things I don't want. But mostly, when I have a problem, which I never do, my ISP answers the phone."
I'm happy to pay more for stability. And I'm thrilled that the first time I've had a serious problem in almost 10 years, I got helped right away by competent people who didn't talk down to me when I had no idea what I had or why it might have broken. I even made 3 of them laugh because I'd called so much that I knew their verification questions. I got so I rattled all of it off as soon as I got off hold. It was kind of funny that I had a spiel, but it saved time.
One of the nights while I was sleepless, I was watching Holmes on Homes and he kept saying, "Don't look for the cheapest contractor, you get what you pay for."
Monday 11:30am to Wednesday 1pm-ish being "gone" has swamped me with over 500 posts in the feeds, zero DW comments, zero fiber blog contents, 2 emails (plus something I sent myself so I didn't lose it), and something in the neighborhood of 5 months' worth of average phone usage (my plan has about three years worth of normal usage allotted per month, but any cheaper plan has horrendously restricted data caps--- I'm not a phone person.)
Monday I consumed all the remaining rum, 3 limes, a drunken "splash" of grenadine---- combined into "punch". Then I discovered it wasn't tart enough and added apple cider vinegar. I will say that there is one benefit to making rum punch after you've already started drinking... you don't care if you get it wrong.
I've slept about 7 hours total.
I'm so upset about everything that I feel completely overwhelmed. And honestly... all I had to do was call the ISP and wait for the box to arrive.
I have to say that I am absolutely thrilled with the customer service by my ISP. I waited less than 3 minutes total on hold in 5 calls. It would have been less if I could have found the direct tech support phone number, but I lost patience with web browsing via itty bitty phone screen after I'd found the main number. They were happy to direct my calls.
Whenever the local phone company started coming out with their cheap DSL service, they kept hounding us to try them. I kept saying, "I don't care that I'm paying 5 times what you're advertising... your rate is going to go up in 30, 90, or 360 days and you won't tell me what it will cost then. Your rates are contingent on me buying other things I don't want. But mostly, when I have a problem, which I never do, my ISP answers the phone."
I'm happy to pay more for stability. And I'm thrilled that the first time I've had a serious problem in almost 10 years, I got helped right away by competent people who didn't talk down to me when I had no idea what I had or why it might have broken. I even made 3 of them laugh because I'd called so much that I knew their verification questions. I got so I rattled all of it off as soon as I got off hold. It was kind of funny that I had a spiel, but it saved time.
One of the nights while I was sleepless, I was watching Holmes on Homes and he kept saying, "Don't look for the cheapest contractor, you get what you pay for."
