I’m writing this from an Internet Cafe on Bleecker Street near my apartment. I can hear the cars whizzing by outside on the wet pavement. It’s a cold, windy, rainy day. Our cable access has been down at home. That means no internet access or tv since Friday, and because I was at home on Friday, and not at work, it’s been about 3 full days for me. I’m feeling a little lost and going a little insane. I have read an entire 307 page book called The Keepers of Truth.
Feeling Lost
March 30th, 2003 · 8 Comments
Tags: Web/Tech
8 responses so far ↓
1 mom // Mar 30, 2003 at 6:08 pm
Wow Shell, I can’t imagine not having this link to the world ! Why were you off on Friday?
Today it’s 40* and sunny, cloudy, snowin’, rainin’, sunny weird snow squalls on and off all day today. Weird Wisconsin weather. Dad’s in Milwaukee delivering baby furniture, I went to Steph’s baby shower.
missin’ you,
mum
2 Jess // Mar 31, 2003 at 9:29 am
I know what you mean.. been home in Whitinsville for a couple days and without my computer. Crazy how much you get attached to using it.
Now I am working from a different office.. feels very strange. Where are my MP3s? I need my depressing music inorder to work!
3 Sam // Mar 31, 2003 at 10:29 am
I made my company place me in a different hotel because i didn’t have interenet connection.
Must have my internet
4 Richard // Mar 31, 2003 at 1:05 pm
is that one of the books that i got you for christmas?
5 rachelle // Mar 31, 2003 at 1:56 pm
Time Warner Cable may be the kings of corporate idiocy. We called them 3 times this weekend and they were just like “hmm.. well.. it should be up within a few hours.” My roommate even tryed to pull some crap saying we worked from home and desperately needed our internet connection (I think she could see the madness settling upon me).
They couldn’t schedule a technician to come by until Monday morning.. hmm.. sometime between 8 & noon.. so I had to stay home from work. When the tech got there he told me that construction workers doing work on our roof knocked the entire building out. Now, you’d think TWC would recognize that they had tons of people calling from the same address and realize that the connection to the building was messed up, but no… instead they had a bunch of technicians going to apartments all in our same building. The guy who came to my apt had several appointments today in my building and was talking on a walkie talkie to a couple guys who were in the building at the exact same time! Made me SO mad. So rediculous and the people manning the phones at TWC, and their supervisors who we spoke to, are useless.
Mom: it was in the 60s here on Saturday and on Sunday it snowed in some parts.. I didn’t see it, I only saw rain, but Mark (NJ) said he saw snow and so did Jeannette (Brooklyn) so we must have gotten it.
Dick: That is one of the books you got me .. thanks!
6 Sam // Mar 31, 2003 at 3:21 pm
I never understood why Time Warner charges me prorated charges if I start a new service in the middle of the month (like when I got my digital cable). But if my internet connection goes down, they don’t credit me for that.
Oh it was snowing here in Maryland and in DC this past weekend
7 rachelle // Mar 31, 2003 at 3:30 pm
sam, they said they were going to credit us for our down time. .. now that they found out is was our building’s fault, who knows. how long have you been on the east coast?
8 Sam // Mar 31, 2003 at 4:52 pm
Really? Everytime I bring something like this up with the Time Warner people at San Diego they say they can’t do that. Now I know better
I’ve been in the East Coast now for a little over a week. Flew into Philly and then drove to Maryland. And I will be here for the next 6+ weeks (depending on how this project goes)