Liz called me at work on Friday because we had no cable connection. No cable TV, no hi-speed cable internet, nothing. She'd called Adelphia and been on hold for over half an hour. I called and got a "Due to heavy call volume, a Customer Service Rep is not available to speak to you right now. Please call back later." To me, that sounded like someone messed up and cut something they shouldn't have, so everyone was calling Adelphia and complaining that they had no cable.
I got home and we still had no cable. When I called I got their automated help line so I chose to report an internet problem and got to speak to a real person. Of course he was a computer tech meant to help me with my internet problem, while my problem was absolutely no cable at all, so he scheduled a service call for the next day for me.
The Cable Guy comes out the next day, I tell him we have absolutely no service, he tells me he'll check the connection box, where everyone in the complex is plugged in to get their service. As soon as he lifts the lid, straight away, he says "You've been disconnected; I bet this is your cable here." He removes the do-hickey (that's an actual technical term for the thingamabob {not such a tecnical term} which goes between your cable cable and your cable socket in the cable box and prevents you from receiving a cable signal) and reconnects the cable cable to the cable socket and tells me we'll now probably have a cable signal. I go upstairs and sure enough, the cable modem is already showing its receiving a signal. I switch the TV on and we have stations.
WE HAVE CABLE ONCE AGAIN ! ! ! ! !
I thanked the man and called Adelphia to complain that some moron had disconnected us yesterday. The girl told me it was an accident, and as I'd already received a credit for having no service the day before she couldn't really do anything for me. I told her I'd received a credit for having no service, but what about the moron who disconnected us. She gave us a 1/2 day credit. Better than nothing, I guess. I told her what about the moron who'd disconnected us. She said she was sure The Cable Guy from this morning had probably reported the error to his supervisor. I told her I'd like to make sure it had been, and could she be sure to mention it to her supervisor for me.
Now it occurs to me, sitting here, typing this...that maybe Saturday's Cable Guy was also Friday's Cable Guy...and that's why he knew straight away that we'd been disconnected...because HE'D DISCONNECTED US THE DAY BEFORE ! ! ! ! !
In which case he wouldn't have reported the problem as a "disconnect" to his Supervisor, but noted that it was a faulty wire, or something. Oh well. We got our cable back :D
Liz's PC has also been acting up on her for the last week or two, and spontaneously rebooting. Ghoti's Ross mentioned that he suspected the power supply, which is a little 250W thing, so today I bought her a 350W job. It's in now, and Liz has been playing on my PC, so I've been typing this on her PC, and so far, so good. Let's hope that was the problem. Usually when Liz's PC has problems I'll be a nice guy and let her use my PC, which means no WoW for me.
Time to get my PC back :D
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Ok. first of all it's just ross, not "ghoti's ross" actually that's true... disregard.
Tho i did say, to pull your power supply out and test it on liz's machine first, and if that didn't work then try removing the vga card.. so, dont be balming me if it goes spaz.. but if it holds up, i'll expect praise of sorts.
oh, and that previous post.. the song is wedged in my head.. you git.
happy new year jon (yes i know there's a fucking H in it, but do you guys know there's an H in "herb"?
If it works (or continues working without rebooting), then of course all congrats go to you :) If it fucks up, it's me who did it, so I take the blame (why does that sound so much like how government works?)
Yeah, I know there's an H in both John, and H-erb...oh!!! Is this a referral to those wankers who pronounce it 'erb...they'd be the same wankers that say boo-kay (instead of bucket) and tar-zhay (that's the best phonetic spelling I can come up with for how those same wankers pronouce Target.) It's Tar-GET, it's not some stupid French bow-teek!
How many extra peripherals do you have wired up? Is your CPU a P3 or older? Did you upgrade a P3 box with a P4/AMD Mobo?
The only extra I dropped in was a GeForce MX4000 so Liz could play Age of Empires III, but the box, MoBo & CPU was a prebuilt unit with sound, video, everything being onboard, so the builders probably figured 250W was enough, and it might have been if Liz hadn't needed a real video card.
Right, but John being such a common name is split up into many forms, wether you're called John or Jonathan.
Anyways, the whole silent H in "herb" wtf is that all about? I've never heard target prounced as you put it, but ghoti did point out that target is the rich man's walmart..
tomorrow i have a dilema.. my old guitarist is bringing his french girlfriend to my house.. and i'm not sure what to do.. obviously murder is out of the question with these new european laws.. do i mock her? do i speak french to her? and by french i mean utter nonsense like "i do not have the small potatoes, they are swimming in the sea" - "the horses are in the bathroom" and "the monkey is in the tree"
I guess i'll have to play it by ear.. better a frenchie in the house than "ze gehmanz"
Maybe you can offer her french fries.
no no no i said it's the GAY man's walmart...
you never listen to me.
*giggles and runs away*
hey now. i shop at target all the time. seriously i go there at least 2-3 times/week. i told someone about my love for target recently and she asked what i buy there. i thought about it and couldn't come up with an answer. but somehow i always come home with at least one bag whenever i go there.
men, do they ever listen to us? :)
Well, we pretend to listen to ya's , but most of the stuff you ladys say comes out like the meow mix comercial... meow ma meow ma meow, ma ma meow meow.. shopping, something shoes etc.
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