Hey Comcast! Byte Me! Part 892

ARGH! They're really pissing me off, I mean REALLY! Last night (Wednesday) promptly at midnight WHAM! Comcast's cable modem service for the entire TooStoned area goes kerfluey. What's the problem? How long will it take? They dunno. I wait over 3 hours and try again....nothing. I cash it in for the night...till a couple of hours ago.

That incident was the second time in 24 hours that my cable modem service goes out. Tuesday night, it seems the signal to my place goes outta synch and after spending an hour on the phone with service tech person, we got the signal re-synched. But WAIT! there's MORE! Last week, they take modem service offline for 6 hours for routine maintanence. Cheez Whiz, dudes! Thanks for the advanced warning....schmucks! {LeSigh} If being online wasn't so entertaining, I wasn't so addicted to and loving the speed as compared to dial-up, I would gladly place their modem far up their collective anal orifice.

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On a happier note, congrats to ever-wonderful Chris for getting a non-verbal cameo on this week's Graham Norton Show. Alas, the ever-adorable Ultra Sparkalicious Dan was cut off (he was sitting right next to Chris) which was a horrid thing to do to a Birthday Boy!

The parental units finally regained electric power yesterday afternoon so they have a/c once again and don't have to depend on trying to bbq din-din. I still can imagine the 'rents actually roughing it. Too overwhelming to comprehend. My sister's place completely survived the storm and didn't even lose electricity and they're now back home. I heard from my friend in Palm Bay yesterday and he landed up heading to Tampa for the duration but is back home now. Thankfully, his place didn't suffer any damge save a few bedraggled looking pieces of shrubery.