Akannie’s Weblog

Wow…a busy busy weekend,  topped off with computer problems.  Well, at least it seemed to be computer problems. Turned out it is an eletrical problem (like that’s better, right??) lol  I was on the phone to Wild Blue becasue ,my modem had no power to it, so it dropped my connection on Friday evening.   I didnb’t think too much about it, as there were storms moving in quickly and so I just sighed and turned everything off and unplugged it.  Saturday mornihg, still no computer access, but it was again raining and so by later in the afternoon, I noticed [finally] that there was no power to the modem. I checked all the connections,  unplugged nd plugged things. Shut things down and restarted them…all to no avail. So, I call Wild Blue and the tech support woman runs me through a copuple of things and then says, I will have to set you up with a service call. It will cost you 95 dollars for the call. Hold on—all the while I’m like “WHAT?!?!?!?!”   “NINETY FIVE DOLLARS???  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!”   And she very calmly says  “NO, not kidding. Look at your contract.”  That was rude–me? look at my contract??  LMAO….  So I say, hold on, let me fool around a little more here…and I kinda jkust hung up the phone.  So, I screw around for about another 20 minutes,  get over myself some, and start looking for the service order that the guy who hooked me all up laft, because he wrote his personal number on ity and said, if you have any problems, call me. Don’t go through the company…Well, naturally, the paper is not where I KNOW I left it, and I can’t find it anywhere.  Sigh…..I don’t know what I did with it…I distinctly remember putting it in that start up booklet that he gave me. I don’t know why I would have taken it out, as I haven’t had any problems since the installation.

So, I say a little prayer and think, I have to call them back and make an amends for being a tad snarky. I hate it when that happens.  Of course, I also know that the odds of EVER getting the same tech person are a gazillion to one.  So, I dial the number, and this time I get a very mellow woman from somewhere in Mississippi, named Rose.   I tell her what has happened and that I had jkust spoken with someone named Ann and that I wasn’t very nice about the 95 dollar service call and I had fiddled with the darn thing, and guessed I was going to have to make the service call appointment.  And I was sorry. And she laughed this tinkling little melodious laugh nd said, “Oh, honey. It’s no big deal…you were nicer than about 60% of the other frustrated people who call.”  Then she proceeded to run me through another set of diagnostics. Then she laughed and said–I think it might be your outlet. And I says, well, the washer is plugged into it too, and it works. And I tried switching the plugs in the outlets. And she had me unplug the modem, plug it ibnto another outlet in another room, wait 3 minutes, unlug it and then take it back to the laundry room where it’s hooked up, and replug it into the outlet. And VOLIA! it started up and worked just fine.  A little later, though, it started shutting down again, and hubby looked at that outlet and said it needs to be replaced. So…this morning, I have a heavy duty extension cord plugged into the kitchen and the modem plugged into that…and here I am.

Yesterdays bbq was just this side of rained out, so we managed to cook the burgers and dogs outside and eat inside and on the front porch. It turned out well, and I am whipped.  I just finished cleaning up everything this morning.  It was a small  group of about 15, and the last of them left about midnight. The “boys” shot off fireworks in the front yard and it was like watching kids  blowing things up. lol

Looking forward to a restfull Sunday.  Hubby is at his meeting (well, probably on his way home now) and I am just here….enjoying the silence.

Namaste.