this last time
I just told the tech support lady I don’t want to “diagnose” anything,
it’s always something on their end, just send out a tech.. she said that
there will DEFINITELY be a charge if they just send someone out, even
it’s something on their end!!

I was like.. ok.. what do you want
me to do?  She said be at the store and go through the steps.. I said ok
let’s pretend I’m there, now what?  She asked me for the serial on the
router.. I had that.. gave her that.. then she asked me what the lights
were doing.. I had been there a half hour before, so I told her that too

she
said sounds like a broken modem!  I laughed and said NO WAY.. it’s not a
broken modem.. it’s something on your side, probably right behind our
location… “you guys always come and do SOMETHING, and it fixes it
right away.. you never come inside.. and you never tell me what you
did!”

then .. oh this is GOOD….

she told me to put a
DSL filter in between the DSL “modem” and the single jack run only for
DSL on the back wall of the store… nothing else connects to it I told
her.. additionally that that was insane!! .. a DSL filter ON a DSL line
will certainly KILL the DSL, if it already weren’t working.  She
diagreed… said that I HAD to do that… I said that’s crazy, I’m not
doing that, send out a tech… yes I accept the charges and we’ll fight
it with billing.

She told me the earliest tech could come the next evening..
that’s when I dropped the f bombs

I said screw it.. don’t send a
tech

guess what?  came back up by itself over night.

we
are replacing them with Time Warner soon

Now another thing with sprint!

I have a U300 3g/4g card..
3g works fine (connects and routes with my static IP, stays up all
night, all that), 4g connects but doesn’t route and doesn’t give me my
static IP.. so I emailed customer care.. they told me that they had to
“swap out the card”, what’s the ESN?

I gave them the ESN on the
bottom which is in HEX..

and I get

I do apologize for any inconveniences you may
have experienced. I’m
not able to swap the phone out with the ESN number that was
provided. I
would actually need the DEC ESN number, the long number. I’m not able

to replace the equipment in my system. This would need to be
done
through our telesales department at 866-805-9934.

I told them that wasn’t listed, but converted the hex to decimal
for them.. in you know.. windows fucking calc

I also ask.. uh.. you can’t replace it?  I thought you said you
were swapping it?

then I get

I do apologize for any
misunderstandings that I have put out there in
the previous email. I would be happy to swap out the device, but didn’t
know that the device was already on the account because I did not have
the information I needed as far as the ESN on the device. Now that I
have the ESN number and found out that the ESN was already active on the
account, if you have problems this would have to go to our technical
support department at 800-211-4727.

wow.. just.. wow

I started this about the 15th of last month.. filled out 2 voter registrations.. last week I was told I had to come in there because I couldn’t mail that in… I did… filled out everything.. called today.. not registered to vote until AFTER the next election, which is tomorrow… so I’m supposed to call sometime next week to see if I’m on the system yet

… of course I can’t submit this notary thing until then because you can’t be a notary without being a voter.. and if they deny you, then they can deny you for months or years or something.. totally sucks..

I don’t think I’d have the balls to do this

I’m registered to vote in Urbana:

Name: NICHOLAS A MOSSIE
Address: 1704 A TRAILS DR     Apt:
City: URBANA     Zip Code: 61802
PO Box*:      Campus*:     M.H. Lot*:
Birthday: 1979-01-15  Voter ID Number: something

.. but not here.  I checked my MO address, my g/f’s address (I have some bills there), and my 2 previous MO addresses before I was like.. hmm.. let me check Illinois.. and sure enough.. fuck.

For like the first time since I voted on Prop B I really wanted to vote… but alas.. I didn’t check.. but I thought buying a house, buying a car, getting a conceal and carry (which plugs in to the DOR), changing the address on my ID (which also plugs in the DOR), having a bunch of utilities in my name, and registering 4 firearms would do it.. but no.. I really had to send in this in… so I’ll send it in now… but it’s a historic election too late.

oh man.. sad face

So I checked out True Blood.. I had to DVR it cuz Shannon would have nothing to do with it.. so I think my viewing time for the show is about 7am on Mondays

thoughts… first.. vampires right?  Their fangs belong on their canines, not their second incisors.  Lost Boys did it on their second incisors just like True Blood is doing, and it bothers me intensely. So, I watch the show ultra skeptically from that point on.

Silver.. they are doing the silver thing… ugh.. they even go so far as to have the main character say "hey I thought that was for werewolves?" well… that’s cuz it is… ugh.

The main guy that made this series made Six Feet Under.. which, when I did catch it, was very good.  I wished I had seen more of it.  This, I’m not sure if it’s going to last.  He’s not a fantasy writer though.. so.. I’m not sure how this will go.. already we have problems with the lore, and I think that it might be bad for the show… or maybe I’m just being too much of a snob about it.

There was a ton of sex and blood and some murder by not-so-bad guys in the first one.. and I think it’ll keep going along those lines.

Since this is HBO, the show will be visceral, and I like that.  What will be interesting to see is if a guy that can write/direct very well about people being bad, happy, sad, and, you know, totally human, will be able to write about  something about supernatural feelings.

Really, they should look to Dexter for how to write a vampire’s role… and Dexter is coming soon.. so far, if I had to pick, it’d be Dexter all the way.

So .. my reaction is mixed… on one side I can see that this might be pretty cool.. on the other side I don’t know if this director/writer can tell a vampire story without it being played out or just wrong or, the worst, totally hokey… maybe I’m just jaded… maybe nothing is as good in this genre as I think it should be

He did say in his interview that he will try to keep the show as "real" as possible given that there are supernatural vampires and everyone knows about them.. so.. I’ll give him a couple more times… if he can pull it off, I think it’ll do well.

Ugh.. my guts!