Heh. So.

The upgrade? was going flawlessly. I? Got a cocky, perhaps, because right in the middle of the upgrade, everything screeched to a standstill. Ah – cable glitch, I thought, as my brave light flickered on and off and on and off and…. hey – it isn’t coming back on again! GRR!

 So! I rushed over to the tree, which, of course, was in front of my connector thingamabobby, and checked the connections. Everything seemed good, so back to the modem. Flash flash flicker. Flash flash flicker.

Not good. Flash flash flicker SOLID is what I needed that stupid little light to do….

So, I called the auto tech line, find out their having periodic outages in Anchorage. Normally that doesn’t concern me down here, but well, who knows, right? It was too late to call mom and see if her’s was working two doors down, so I gave up and went to bed, certain that it would be all fixed in the morning and I could finish my upgrade so you loyal three wouldn’t miss me.

Heh.

Wake up – and the Modem that Could…..couldn’t. Flash, flash,flicker. So! I call my “boyfriend” (Kevin’s best friend – we’ve enjoyed the rumors for years. heh.) and drug his lazy nekid behind outa bed to come check things out for me. He didn’t find anything wrong with the connections, the splitter or the cable. However, even connecting the modem direct from the floor feed: flash flash flicker. No solid connection. *SOB*

So, here I was, New Years Eve, ready to while away my time on the Internets and waste the evening away working here and there and fixing this install/upgrade, and not a bloody connection in sight. Because NATURALLY my computer? Doesn’t have an old style dial up Modem on it either! Hurrray for upgrades! *Mutter*

I ran down here to mom’s, got the instal fixed so everything was cool here at eclat, and then for the past 24 hours I’ve had nothing to do. *L* Cept clean my house, and well. who wants to do that? Bah.

WHO TOLD THE CABLE COMPANY TECHS THEY COULD HAVE THE HOLIDAY OFF?

MUTTER.

So, I’m out for the count until tuesday at the earliest where hopefully I can get a tech over here to fix/replace my modem and make sure everything is up and running again so that I can return to wasting my time here, like a good designer [time waster] should. I hope everyone had a fantastic NYE – mine was spent cuddled up with the kids and spraying sparkling apple cider everywhere. *L* Then I promptly got bored and went to bed. at 1am. It’s disgusting, I tell ya, disgusting.

Don’t have too much fun without me, kay? *sob*