The internet has been my foe.
Ok, of all the utilities to get left without, I suppose electricity or water would be far more inconvenient. I’d even settle for 56K back again. I’m internet-less at home. Lord knows I depend on the net in an unnatural way. I check movie times online. I order most hard to find items online. I document my innermost longing on my blog. I follow my Weight Watchers regimen religiously when I’m connected. So even my health suffers from the lack of internet.
So I have to focus on a third world country that lacks things like grain to feed their starving or medical care. The people of Uzcrapistan would laugh at the concept of being denied internet access. I’m now working with my second ISP since moving and the earliest these people can come by to evaluate my internet connection problem is next Thursday. I tried working with their help desk and even got hung up on by one of the analysts. As he was walking me through the process of setting up basic internet protocols, I politely told him 1) I have a masters degree in this BS and tried everything under the sun to get the network up and running and 2) I use to work at a help desk I understand his frustration with me not wanting to step through things like rebooting, but could he please just dispatch a tech. It was then that he hung up. Of course in the age of no accountability, he knew that nothing would ever come back to haunt him, so he hung up on some know it all a-hole.
So in the grand scheme of things, it has been a hard week to settle into the new apartment. Valentine’s night involved unanswered phone calls about family drama. I’ve got enough on my plate right now and I’m certainly not adding to it by answering the phone in the middle of dinner with my girlfriend. So goes the week where dozens of little things have been driving me bonkers.
Ok, of all the utilities to get left without, I suppose electricity or water would be far more inconvenient. I’d even settle for 56K back again. I’m internet-less at home. Lord knows I depend on the net in an unnatural way. I check movie times online. I order most hard to find items online. I document my innermost longing on my blog. I follow my Weight Watchers regimen religiously when I’m connected. So even my health suffers from the lack of internet.
So I have to focus on a third world country that lacks things like grain to feed their starving or medical care. The people of Uzcrapistan would laugh at the concept of being denied internet access. I’m now working with my second ISP since moving and the earliest these people can come by to evaluate my internet connection problem is next Thursday. I tried working with their help desk and even got hung up on by one of the analysts. As he was walking me through the process of setting up basic internet protocols, I politely told him 1) I have a masters degree in this BS and tried everything under the sun to get the network up and running and 2) I use to work at a help desk I understand his frustration with me not wanting to step through things like rebooting, but could he please just dispatch a tech. It was then that he hung up. Of course in the age of no accountability, he knew that nothing would ever come back to haunt him, so he hung up on some know it all a-hole.
So in the grand scheme of things, it has been a hard week to settle into the new apartment. Valentine’s night involved unanswered phone calls about family drama. I’ve got enough on my plate right now and I’m certainly not adding to it by answering the phone in the middle of dinner with my girlfriend. So goes the week where dozens of little things have been driving me bonkers.
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