Wednesday, February 01, 2006

 

Reply Desparately Needed


Husband and I have had an interesting few days that have totally altered my routine. On Monday, I noticed the lights in several rooms dimming, and then coming up again. Not flickering, just a slow dim and then back up. And then Monday evening we realized that we no longer had an internet connection (thank you Comcast). And as Husband was taping our favorite show while I was at rehearsal Monday night, he learned that we had no cable connection (again - thank you Comcast). We also have Vonage for our phone service (love it!), so without an internet connection, we were without a land line.

It turns out that there was some kind of loose wire that was easy to fix, so the electricity problem was resolved on Tuesday. They (Comcast) wouldn't come to fix the internet/cable situation until today (Wed.) between 1 and 5. It's all better now, but we were without all of these formerly-expendable-but-now-totally-necessary things for almost 48 hours. I know, poor us, but it was really rough. Did I mention that I had the flu (again) during all this? So the couch potato-ing, watch TV to kill time while resting and feeling crappy just wasn't happening.

The (not so) funny part is that when the Comcast tech left this afternoon, he told me that we should've mentioned on the phone that the service was completely out. They would've prioritized us as an emergency situation and fixed the problem right away. Husband actually told them that we had no service during each of his three calls to Comcast and they never offered speedy service. We already hated Comcast...

But I'm keeping my sense of humor. No cable and internet? Oh, big emergency! Lights and sirens! Quick, get somebody on that. And as the tech is leaving and asking if there's anything else he can do to help, I'm thinking, "Yea - tell me what happened on 24 Monday night. It looked like it would've been a good episode!" And nobody I know watches 24. This and Arrested Development. People, what are you watching that could possibly be better?

So, please, if you know what happened on 24, do leave a short or long comment. How can I concentrate on Beethoven's Eroica without knowing if Jack brought Walt down?

# posted by piannist @ 7:52 PM
Comments:
I don't watch the show 24, so can't tell you if this review is accurate - but it looks pretty detailed.

Hope this helps and sorry about your Comcast outage!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:09 PM
 
thanks Jane - that was just what I needed.
# posted by Blogger piannist : 9:49 AM
 
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