I’m not ignoring my readers, really… I’m a POW!
As my loyal readers know, I’ve been in a war with my computer for the past couple of months. Thursday night when I got home I sat down at my computer and wrote a blog about being sick at work. Just when I was about to post it on my website my Internet connectivity, (which had been working since Cox Cable came out to fix it), quit working! I tried everything that everyone has had me try through all my battles with Internet connectivity and nothing worked. Feeling like crap, I saved my blog in Microsoft Word and went to bed. I figured the Internet would be back on in the morning and I could post my blog then.

Friday morning I awoke late to the sound of my Aunt calling. It was 9am. Not to worry, I wasn’t late for work; I had already told my co-workers that I was going to be out sick. Sick is an understatement. I had been sick for a week and seemed to be getting sicker every day. I was coughing up internal organs almost on an hourly basis. I needed a day of rest. I checked my computer to see if I had Internet connectivity. Nothing! Ugh. Sigh… I made my way to the couch wrapped up in a blanket, laid down and closed my eyes as my Aunt pitter-pattered about and talked.

A little while later I awoke to the sound of my Aunt telling my Dad:

“She’s on the couch.”

I looked up and there stood my Dad.

“Do you have a fever?” He asked.

“No. Just a bad cough and stuffy head.” I answered.

“Do you have any cough medicine?” He asked.

“No.” I said.

I hadn’t even thought about actual cough medicine. I was an idiot!

My Dad went to the store and bought me some cough medicine. He gave it to me and I drank it down like I did when I was 6 years old. My Dad and Aunt left and I laid back down to rest.

Later, still no Internet, I took a shower, got dressed and put makeup on. My theory was: If I looked like shit, I’d feel like shit! I wanted to look normal, feel normal. It helped. Well that and the cough medicine.

Still no Internet and everything I tried didn’t work. Daytime TV sucks! I was bored! I was stuck in my house, resting, and I couldn’t check my email, couldn’t read my favorite blogs. I felt very alienated and alone. I picked up the phone and called Cox Cable again. I went through the same routine I always go through with them every time I call, still nothing worked. At least the Tech Support Technician had a sense of humor and sympathized with my on-going Internet connectivity problems and with the fact that I was home sick and couldn’t get online. He was the most sarcastic and quick-witted Tech Support Technician I had ever spoken to and in my sickened state I found it quite humorous and refreshing. I played along. There was an actual funny human being on the other end of the phone and I was alone and bored. This conversation was the highlight of my day and I was making the most of it. In the end, he was unable to fix my problem over the phone and scheduled an appointment for a ‘Senior Service Technician’ to come out on Tuesday sometime between 4-6pm.

Did you get that? Here it was Friday afternoon and Cox Cable wasn’t coming to fix my Internet connectivity until Tuesday. TUESDAY! That’s 5 whole days without Internet! I think I will be in serious Internet-junkie-coming-off-heroin withdrawals by Monday morning when I get to work and a computer with working Internet.

By Tuesday, my readers will have disappeared and my email friends will all think I’m dead.

I’m not dead! I’m not ignoring my readers, really… I’m a POW! In this latest battle in the on-going war of Internet connectivity with my computer, I’ve been held captive and tortured. I understand that the military rescue mission is scheduled for Tuesday sometime between 4-6pm. I hope they send the Marines. I like the Marines uniforms. If all goes well… I’ll be back online in one piece.

Unwilling to spend another long boring day at home I went out Saturday and braved the Christmas crowds and shopped till I dropped and drank cough medicine like it was egg nog.  posted by Matildakay at 11:55 AM