Colin decided to get sick on the school breakfast on Monday, so I was called to come pick him up from school. I've lost so much work between the kids getting sick and the stupid flooding that it's a wonder I'm still financially afloat. What really got me burned was that he wasn't really sick. As soon as he was home, he was bouncing off the walls. Almost doubt he was actually sick at all at school. At least it bought me some time to unpack more things and check the connection. As it turned out, the connection was dropping yet again. Another call into AT&T...
Starting to really regret switching over to AT&T. In the past week, I've had to place 10 service calls, have had 4 technicians and an engineer make house calls, went through a DVR, 2 cable boxes, 3 residential gateways and had all the telecommunication wires and fittings replaced in the house, and my connection is still is not always solid up. TWC was definitely more expensive, but at least their uptime was near perfect.
This time the connection seems to be holding a little better. It's only dropped twice that I know of since the engineer came out and rewired the data lines leading upstairs. He also changed the fittings outside and made a call to get the cable line from the neighborhood box buried. Apparently they neglected to do that during install like they were supposed to. We'll see how it holds up after they bury the line.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Weekend Intelligence: Life Spice
Had an accidentally long weekend, but that's OK. I needed it to iron out all the final details of our exodus from the hotel back into our own house, unpack stuff and fix some residual issues. D and I also decided to get some 'us' time in on our last night in the hotel. ^_^/ So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!
House and Home:
Clara had been very boogery all week, and on Friday, she decided to run a fever. Since D is already in the negative from all this flood shenanigans, I took off work to stay with her. She slept all day long, poor thing - she really wasn't feeling well. Only woke up once for a few hours to get some food and something to drink, then let me know she wanted to go back to sleep. This worked out rather well, since the movers had all but finished moving our stuff in. I got most of the stuff out of the hotel room and into the house. Everything but the food... Apparently in the course of moving our fridge out, they forgot to defrost it and leave it open. For a month. I swear, when I opened the freezer, the sentient life that had developed in the fridge started cursing me out to turn off the light and shut the damned door 'cause they didn't want to heat the outdoors. They sent the service people over to do a decontamination on the fridge - hope we don't get sick.
Also noted that the upstairs cable box was freezing up. We JUST got AT&T U-Verse installed in our home last month, and this was really the first real test it was getting, and already it was screwing up... I called their technical support, and after navigating the treacherous waters of the phone tree, I got a representative that put me on hold half a dozen time for no shorter than 2 minutes a hold. Honestly, that's inept. -.- After a good hour of this shenanigans, they scheduled a technician for Saturday afternoon.
This whole ordeal has left D and I rather on edge, and in After what we've been through, we decided that we were long overdue for some adult fun time, contracted the help of Noni's daughters to watch the kiddos and went out for some fun. Not going into details here, but let's just say we got some pretty decent mileage out of our last night in the room. -.^
Saturday morning was a bit of a run. We needed to get the kids by 10, be out of the hotel by 11 and be done with our running around for the day by noon, since the AT&T guy and the new furniture were scheduled for the 12-4 window. Somehow we were able to bend space and got completely checked out by 11. From there, it was a quick run to pick up the things we absolutely needed before noon. The furniture guys came and left quickly, and D and I broke the new love seat in with a wonderful nap until the AT&T guy arrived. ^_^ He changed out the upstairs box, checked the house wiring and determined that the main gateway needed to be replaced as well.
And it all worked great again until later that evening, when the wireless decided to go out. So I strung a line to my old Linksys wireless router, which made the connection drop every 2 mins. Hooray for 24-7-365 tech support. -.- After another half hour call, we got another tech scheduled for Sunday to change out the gateway. Good thing we didn't have much going on for Sunday, just some light shopping to get us through the week.
In Game:
Finally, we were able to play our own game on our own computers in our own home. :D Once the kids were put away for the night, we were able to level our BST a little. D found something else to do online while I decided to brush the dust off my campaign medals. I'd lost interest in upkeep on them since the winter update didn't include the Cobra mage body piece like everyone was hoping. Over the course of the weekend, I picked up 2 merits and burned off all my ops credits that had been sitting around for months. Keri and I also leveled our mules that we're building to marry our main characters. She'll get a dress and ring that has my mule's name on it, Shrades, while I'll get the same from her mule, Keriths. Original, huh? :P
House and Home:
Clara had been very boogery all week, and on Friday, she decided to run a fever. Since D is already in the negative from all this flood shenanigans, I took off work to stay with her. She slept all day long, poor thing - she really wasn't feeling well. Only woke up once for a few hours to get some food and something to drink, then let me know she wanted to go back to sleep. This worked out rather well, since the movers had all but finished moving our stuff in. I got most of the stuff out of the hotel room and into the house. Everything but the food... Apparently in the course of moving our fridge out, they forgot to defrost it and leave it open. For a month. I swear, when I opened the freezer, the sentient life that had developed in the fridge started cursing me out to turn off the light and shut the damned door 'cause they didn't want to heat the outdoors. They sent the service people over to do a decontamination on the fridge - hope we don't get sick.
Also noted that the upstairs cable box was freezing up. We JUST got AT&T U-Verse installed in our home last month, and this was really the first real test it was getting, and already it was screwing up... I called their technical support, and after navigating the treacherous waters of the phone tree, I got a representative that put me on hold half a dozen time for no shorter than 2 minutes a hold. Honestly, that's inept. -.- After a good hour of this shenanigans, they scheduled a technician for Saturday afternoon.
This whole ordeal has left D and I rather on edge, and in After what we've been through, we decided that we were long overdue for some adult fun time, contracted the help of Noni's daughters to watch the kiddos and went out for some fun. Not going into details here, but let's just say we got some pretty decent mileage out of our last night in the room. -.^
Saturday morning was a bit of a run. We needed to get the kids by 10, be out of the hotel by 11 and be done with our running around for the day by noon, since the AT&T guy and the new furniture were scheduled for the 12-4 window. Somehow we were able to bend space and got completely checked out by 11. From there, it was a quick run to pick up the things we absolutely needed before noon. The furniture guys came and left quickly, and D and I broke the new love seat in with a wonderful nap until the AT&T guy arrived. ^_^ He changed out the upstairs box, checked the house wiring and determined that the main gateway needed to be replaced as well.
And it all worked great again until later that evening, when the wireless decided to go out. So I strung a line to my old Linksys wireless router, which made the connection drop every 2 mins. Hooray for 24-7-365 tech support. -.- After another half hour call, we got another tech scheduled for Sunday to change out the gateway. Good thing we didn't have much going on for Sunday, just some light shopping to get us through the week.
In Game:
Finally, we were able to play our own game on our own computers in our own home. :D Once the kids were put away for the night, we were able to level our BST a little. D found something else to do online while I decided to brush the dust off my campaign medals. I'd lost interest in upkeep on them since the winter update didn't include the Cobra mage body piece like everyone was hoping. Over the course of the weekend, I picked up 2 merits and burned off all my ops credits that had been sitting around for months. Keri and I also leveled our mules that we're building to marry our main characters. She'll get a dress and ring that has my mule's name on it, Shrades, while I'll get the same from her mule, Keriths. Original, huh? :P
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