Wasted Days and Wasted, well, days....

[captainsblog]

We awoke to a deadness of dead things in our in-home internet connections. A call to Time Warner put us off by saying, "Amherst customers, please be advised that we were doing routine maintenance in your area overnight and you may need to reboot your computer and reset your router in order for your connection to be restored."

Well, yeah. Except neither restored the signal. Five hours later and after multiple calls to the cable company (which established it was an issue with the router not working right with their reset modem settings) and then to Netgear (whose representatives were singularly useless), the beastie was broadcasting on all four cylindrical channels again- but mainly through (and put down any beverages and sharp objects you may have) Windows Vista helping to reconnect the thing without much knowledge or assistance on my part, or anyone elses' part, for that matter.

This did rather blow my day to smithereens, though. That and the Emergency Client I needed to go out of town to see today, who is now the Not So Emergency client I need to go see tomorrow. I'll be working on stuff for him, and three other appointments I have tomorrow, for most of tonight. The Phillies have already lost (YAY!), and there's no Yankees-Twins tonight (GO TWINKIES!), so I might actually pull this off.

Comments

[bktheirregular]

Hey, Vista does have the occasional ability to deliver pleasant surprises. I can relate one incident where a colleague at an on-site audit passed me a flash drive containing a summary document and an auto-loading malware worm; Visa blocked the auto-execute portion of the worm before it even reached my antivirus barrier.

Bad reputations can sometimes lead to pleasant surprises.

(We're going to have to agree to disagree on Twins-Yankees, I'm afraid.)

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Love your userpic. Sounds like you were in the Special Hell for computer users most of the day. Yuck.

The minute I read Twinkies (CLEVER), I though of Zombieland, a movie that will do more to boost Twinkie consumption than any commercial could.