Skrubb it Out

Monday, April 10, 2006

How dost the Lord smite me...

Friday night we had this real big nasty storm up here in the B'ham. People were freaking out! Schools let out at 1 pm and a number of businesses (including mine) let their employees go at 12:45. If you were from the coast, you would swear that a cat 4 hurricane was about to hit.

Of course this storm was a puss in my area. I know it was nasty up in TN and even some of the area north of B'ham saw some tornadoes. But here, it was pretty calm. I had, however, in my paranoid state unplugged my entertainment center and all my PCs. Thank the Lord that I'm paranoid.

Saturday morning, I wake up and go to check email. Turn the UPS back on..........POP.....smoke......uh oh........mmmm.....ozone smells goooooooood....... So a trip to Best Buy is in order. Run up to BB purchase a new UPS, get home, power back up, sweet! Hit gmail.....no ip.....a network cable could be unplugged......nope......why doesn't my router have blinking lights on it? Son of a biscuit maker!!!!! I didn't unplug my router (though it was on a power strip). Odd. So I replace the router with a spare I have and still no Internet. PC connects to router fine, but router to cable modem is a no go. Dog doo!!!

Of course I don't know the number for Charter (I'd generally just look it up on the Internet, doh!). Soooo....I survive the weekend without Internet. I get the number while at work and prepare to make the dreaded call. Hey....why don't I get a dial tone.......mother mary of oranges!!!! The stupid phone is jacked up to.....there goes my new cordless with answering machine......piece of crap! So I get my 30 cent spare corded phone and plug it up. Thankfully it works.

Dear God do I hate talking to tech support. HELLO!!!!! I'M NOT STUPID!!!!! So after reseting the modem 12 (no lie) times, rebooting 5 times, and trying 8 different cables I get the tech to admit that the modem is fubar. 57 minutes on the phone for the tech to tell me something I knew 3 days ago. Bastages!

So guess I have a trip to Charter coming this week. As well as another trip to Best Buy for a new cordless phone and a replacement Linksys router.

If you are wondering how I wrote this (good catch). I got sneaky and borrowed a USB cable to hook my laptop up to the modem. Appears the RJ-45 jack is bombed but the rest works fine.

Ah.....the great adventures of life! Even with all that I can't be in a bad mood. I'll post on the "good" event later....stay tuned!

2 Comments:

  • Yes, tech people are a pain. If it gets on my nerves enough I will let them know I am a CS major and to skip the easy baby steps, just tell me the end thing you want me to do.

    By Blogger MadDogGTO, at 12:33 AM  

  • Frickin' teckies...at least it wasn't one of the Indian variety. Mom called Saturday and said that a funnel cloud was sighted in the air over wal-mart, which is like 600 yards from our house now.

    Last time one was that close to the house we had trees down, buildings torn slap up, damaged houses all around ours. It was almost like a small war zone.

    By Blogger Brian Wright, at 10:18 PM  

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