Internet DRAMA this weekend! Connectivity issues out the wazoo. Ack.

I guess about 5pm yesterday, the Road Runner went out. Caplooey. Caboom. Splat. I was enroute from Aurora (after having dropped Aidan off to stay with his grandmommy for another week), so I was sad to come back home and find no connection. However, the cable modem was flashing all happy like, and everything said connected. But alas, no internet!

I tried everything. Andy walked me through several steps. Nothing. Then Andy realized there was an outage in my area. I went to bed, thinking it’d be fixed Sunday morning.

Sunday morning came. Still no internet. I called the company. They reported the outage again, and I put in my phone number. The computer told me that my house was NOT in the outage. I called customer service. They rebooted my box from their place. Nothing. I was on the phone with National support. Went through all the same steps as Andy. Still nothing. Still offline.

I got on dialup, sent a few emails, and checked status. It was GREEN. It had turned green at that very moment. So I checked the cable modem and could see it rebooting. Tired of dealing with it, I went shopping. Came back, still nothing. So I unplugged the modem, and went to Chad & Christy’s. I used their internet til it kicked me out like it always does. Came home and did some fighting with it again. Finally, Andy had me totally reset the router. And VOILA! Internet again. YAY! 🙂

So, in the midst of all that, I got more Christmas shopping done. I only have a few more things to buy and I’ll be FINISHED. I am so happy this year. I haven’t felt this kind of joy for Christmas in a long time.

Busy week ahead.

Monday – Word 2000 Advanced training, the chiro, then some errands. Then cleaning and holiday stuff. Woo.
Tuesday – Work, relax a bit, The Grove, then ???
Wednesday – cleaning, holiday stuff
Thursday – cleaning, holiday stuff, shopping for birthday party
Friday – The Grove Christmas thingy

Should be good, though. 🙂

Okay, I don’t have much else to write. I think this entry was boring. Oh well.

So, what had happened was….

The internet around here is kind of funky. Not working so well; not stable. At first I was pissed because I thought it was my computers. But good old Andy did some research, found the network status and forwarded the info to me. So while I am happy it’s not my computers, I’m still sad because I want my excellent 54.0 Mbps connection, not my neighbor’s very low 5.5 Mbps connection!

I hope they get it fixed soon.

Should I feel bad for “stealing” their bandwidth? Honestly, if Andy hadn’t set up my wireless network and made it secure, I probably wouldn’t care who was using mine. I dunno.

Anyway, Aidan is now at his grandmommy’s for another week. I tried to kiss him goodbye and he was totally not caring. Heh. I hope he has fun. In the meantime, I have a lot of stuff I need to do while he is gone. Starting tomorrow. That means I probably shouldn’t take Nyquil unless the coughing really keeps me up. It takes hours and hours to wear off… but dang. It does feel good the next day. I feel so mellow and happy and relaxed. That’s some GOOD STUFF.

Mmm, Nyquil.

Boo to coughing and hacking all night.

Christmas cards are almost done. Tomorrow evening, I plan to start major housecleaning. It’s horrible here. Oh gosh, it’s so messy. I can’t stand it. I try to keep it straightened up at least, but it’s so hard with a 2 year old. But my birthday party is next Saturday! The house has to be spotless! Well, almost. I still can’t bring myself to erase the Aidan sized handprint on the wall by the front door. 🙂

Speaking of Aidan, he has discovered that crayons work on the wall. Lord help me.

Can I just talk about how happy I am to have no obligations tomorrow? I attended the Christmas program Thursday, there are no church services. I’ll miss seeing my friends, though. Actually, I doubt it. Who knows when the Nyquil will wear off and I’ll actually get up?

Good night. Or morning. Or something.