:: My Apologies
Sorry for the long pause between post. If it could happen - it has..
My list server, which collects all the new subscriber info and mails my newsletters, went down last week, and the estimated one day re-up turned into two, then three, then four..
I lost my internet connection Tuesday of last week, along with my TV, and promptly reported it to "Charter Communication", my cable company. Two days later a service man shows up, checks my connections, and tells me that he 'thinks' he knows what the problem is...
He knew exactly what the problem was - and I suspect he was the cause of the problem.
Up the power pole he goes. I watch as he disconnects a cable connection, and then reconnects a cable connection which was already apart. As soon as he hit the ground I ask him what was wrong.
" I think someone came out to cut off your neighbors cable and cut off yours instead.."
I waited two days to be told that my cable was purposefully cut off... All is well though - they promised to give me a credit for two days of service.
Actually, this is just part one of the story. Part two is still in the works..
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If that wasn't enough, I bought a new computer.
I was without a computer this past Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. When I finally got my cable back on I spent two solid days trying to get everything migrated over to my new machine. I bought a program, "PC Relocator - The Easiest Way to Move Everything to Your New PC" to assist in moving.
That was thirty bucks thrown out the window...
When the cable came back on Thursday, I spent all night Thursday and Friday trying to get the old and new machines to transfer data. They absolutely refused to assist me in my task. So, Saturday morning I was off to Circuit City, where I bought the program, to get them to spend their time trying to work it out.
I was told they would have it ready in 24 hours. 48 hours later they called to tell me all was well. They experienced the same problem I did. Except they opened another PC relocation-type program, hooked it up, went home for the night, and it was just finishing the move when they got back in the next morning.
Anyway, I've been on-line a total of two days out of the past eight, and they were spent trying to transfer data. I spent much of today re-publishing pictures to my web sites. Some of the images that were uploaded to my sites were done so directly from " documents/my pictures ", and when the files were transfered - of course - some of the paths vanished from the face of the earth. I deserved that..
There should have been a new issue of Magic Roadshow out last night, but I just couldn't get it all together in time. I have my articles and links compiled but I still need to put it up on my web site.
It's 6:38 AM and I'm tired. Been trying to catch up on emails and edit articles all night. I suppose I'll catch some sleep until after lunch, then start all over again.
How's your week been going?
Later..
My list server, which collects all the new subscriber info and mails my newsletters, went down last week, and the estimated one day re-up turned into two, then three, then four..
I lost my internet connection Tuesday of last week, along with my TV, and promptly reported it to "Charter Communication", my cable company. Two days later a service man shows up, checks my connections, and tells me that he 'thinks' he knows what the problem is...
He knew exactly what the problem was - and I suspect he was the cause of the problem.
Up the power pole he goes. I watch as he disconnects a cable connection, and then reconnects a cable connection which was already apart. As soon as he hit the ground I ask him what was wrong.
" I think someone came out to cut off your neighbors cable and cut off yours instead.."
I waited two days to be told that my cable was purposefully cut off... All is well though - they promised to give me a credit for two days of service.
Actually, this is just part one of the story. Part two is still in the works..
----------------
If that wasn't enough, I bought a new computer.
I was without a computer this past Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. When I finally got my cable back on I spent two solid days trying to get everything migrated over to my new machine. I bought a program, "PC Relocator - The Easiest Way to Move Everything to Your New PC" to assist in moving.
That was thirty bucks thrown out the window...
When the cable came back on Thursday, I spent all night Thursday and Friday trying to get the old and new machines to transfer data. They absolutely refused to assist me in my task. So, Saturday morning I was off to Circuit City, where I bought the program, to get them to spend their time trying to work it out.
I was told they would have it ready in 24 hours. 48 hours later they called to tell me all was well. They experienced the same problem I did. Except they opened another PC relocation-type program, hooked it up, went home for the night, and it was just finishing the move when they got back in the next morning.
Anyway, I've been on-line a total of two days out of the past eight, and they were spent trying to transfer data. I spent much of today re-publishing pictures to my web sites. Some of the images that were uploaded to my sites were done so directly from " documents/my pictures ", and when the files were transfered - of course - some of the paths vanished from the face of the earth. I deserved that..
There should have been a new issue of Magic Roadshow out last night, but I just couldn't get it all together in time. I have my articles and links compiled but I still need to put it up on my web site.
It's 6:38 AM and I'm tired. Been trying to catch up on emails and edit articles all night. I suppose I'll catch some sleep until after lunch, then start all over again.
How's your week been going?
Later..
posted by Rick Carruth at 5:58 AM
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