Sometimes I really just need not get up in the morning, ya know?

Ok, yesterday, phone changes and the DSL gets upgraded from 256K to 1.5MB. Do you recall when I said, a couple times before, that NOTHING is plug-n-play? Well… yeah.

If that guy in the back hits me with “self-fulfilling prophecy” I’m gonna fillet him, so SHUT UP!

Back to the story. DSL is working pretty darn fine, BUT there is static on the line when I call people. It’s not horrible, just a kind of white noise that’s just distracting enough to slightly annoy. The thing is, when something worked PERFECTLY before hand, it still should.

So, off to call Qwest. Customer service endures the complaint listing and sends me to repair. Repair gets the story and I get shunted off to DSL tech, Dennis. Dennis gets the whole nine yards and then some. He has to go look at old records. He says one wrong word, and he gets his head bit off. Dennis, sitting in his own pool of virtual blood, is a very calm guy. Of course, he’s probably thinking he’s going to need a double mocha latte with extra whipped cream to get him through the rest of his day. For him, he only has a couple of hours left. He’s in New York.

Dennis gets a few more limbs chopped off, virtually of course, before we come to a plan of action that BETTER NOT INVOLVE MORE MONEY. A tech will come tomorrow. Yay. Can you tell how thrilled I am to have someone disrupt my home life. Joy. Happiness. Stab! Stab! Murder, death, kill. Bleah.

Dennis is reviewing notes from the last tech that came two years ago who was a competent man that fixed things. I tell Dennis the tech guy liked Doctor Who and even wanted the portraits my mother had done of Doctor Who and the Master. Dennis, who admits he likes science fiction, DOESN’T KNOW WHO DOCTOR WHO IS!!!!!!

Well, it’s my Whovian duty to inform any person unaware of the Doctor’s presence on this planet just Who the hell Who is. That was the last twenty minutes of my call. That was an hour and a half long call.

If you’re selling something, preaching something, delivering something…. don’t come to my door right now. I weel keel you.

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