Something went 'twang'!
Nov. 3rd, 2009 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI hadn't realized we had been here long enough to fall behind in paying for Internet, so Comcast squeezed the pipe, vectoring all browser requests to their "High-Speed Internet" page, which makes no sense at all, but I got the message, went online via my BlackBerry, and paid the bill.
Service would be restored, I was told, within 24 hours. It wasn't.
And I just finished an extended session with a Comcast 'analyst' which didn't solve the problem.
It turns out, based on my limited knowledge, that the basic connection is there. I can ping various web sites, so the pipe is open. I just can't browse, nor can I skype or do anything else useful.
I am not a happy camper, but on the other hand, I translated just over 5,000 target words today, so I suppose I am actually a less-than-deliriously happy camper, but happy nonetheless. I would almost say I'm smiling, but that might sound like an attempt to address the theme of the week, so I won't.
Another 12,000 source words came in today, displacing a file that had been assigned yesterday. I'm not at all sure I'll be able to do anything with any of it until tomorrow morning.
I'm also not sure I'll be able to address anything at all to do with Nanowrimo tonight either (and falling behind is a deadly bad thing to do with Nano, because it puts you almost permanently behind the power curve).
Thank goodness for my BlackBerry!
Cheers...
Service would be restored, I was told, within 24 hours. It wasn't.
And I just finished an extended session with a Comcast 'analyst' which didn't solve the problem.
It turns out, based on my limited knowledge, that the basic connection is there. I can ping various web sites, so the pipe is open. I just can't browse, nor can I skype or do anything else useful.
I am not a happy camper, but on the other hand, I translated just over 5,000 target words today, so I suppose I am actually a less-than-deliriously happy camper, but happy nonetheless. I would almost say I'm smiling, but that might sound like an attempt to address the theme of the week, so I won't.
Another 12,000 source words came in today, displacing a file that had been assigned yesterday. I'm not at all sure I'll be able to do anything with any of it until tomorrow morning.
I'm also not sure I'll be able to address anything at all to do with Nanowrimo tonight either (and falling behind is a deadly bad thing to do with Nano, because it puts you almost permanently behind the power curve).
Thank goodness for my BlackBerry!
Cheers...
