Time Warner was coming out today to install cable and RoadRunner. My Love called last week and make the appointment (the old service was under MY name, this service is under his, so we didn't have to pay the past-due amount under my name since it's not under my name anymore). He wanted us to have tv again and wanted me to be able to use the net instead of just look at it slowly load and not be able to really do anything with it.
Didn't know what time they were coming out. So he called them and called me this morning at about 10am to tell me it was between 4pm-6pm. Ok, good enough, I got to sleep in some, finish cleaning up the house - doing some laundry and dishes, etc. - and set to waiting. I didn't feel like surfing the net today because I knew we'd get the cable modem tonight and I'd just use it then. Humph. I also waited around since Jef was coming over to help me wait today and keep me company. (Couldn't call him since his phone is off so I just had to wait for him to show)
Finally at about 5pm, the techs showed up. I had to move all sorts of furniture and boxes and such so they could run the wires and they got the living room set up and ran all the cable for the bedroom's cable modem. (they also gave us a second tv hookup for free in the bedroom which is pretty cool). It took forever.
It was about 6:15 or so by the time they were actually hooking up the cable modem box- this terribly cheesy Ericsson one - and then it had a problem. The modem power wouldn't stay on. It had a short or something because the minute after you plugged it in, the power light went off, then back on, then back off. I told them no way, I wanted another one. So they brought out another one (same lame Ericsson one. Dammit, I want my legacy motorola one back) and set it up and called in the change.
It then took them until about 7pm to get it working. Calling the techs, waiting for it to initialize. Finally it did and they left. I surfed for all of maybe 30 minutes and then it lost connection. YOU'VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME! This happened the last damned time. The very first night we had it at the other apartment, we lost our connection.
So I call the RR tech support. They reset it and nothing. Never initializes. So they make an appointment for a tech to come out. THURSDAY. FUCK FUCK FUCK. I am sooo pissed off. Now I'm typing this up ahead of time in Notepad and I'll hop on the dial-up and publish it. ARG. This is so not even funny. My head is killing me and I'm so pissed about how crappy this always seems to not work out for me.
Our cable tv is working though, so once the guys are done using the tv in the living room, I'll get to at least watch something more interesting the those bad "date" shows that are the only thing on at night besides infomercials. *sighs*
So.....that's about it. Really annoyed. Head hurts. Still can't enjoy my cable even though I've been looking forward to it since my Love called the order in on Wednesday of last week. Arg.
ttfn
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