1. Wake up on Friday morning to find that we have no internet service. Modem DSL light is blinking red. No good.
2. Come home on Friday evening. Still no internet. Modem light is still blinking red.
3. Un-plug and re-plug all possible wires and cables in hopes that it will magically restore internet service. It doesn't. Repeat about twenty times.
4. Push reset button in hopes that it will magically restore internet service. It doesn't. Repeat only two times.
5. Check account to make sure we are not for some reason lapsed on payments and got service shut off. We are not.
6. Call AT&T and go through standard procedure of spending ten minutes going through automated prompts, followed by talking to a human being for ten more minutes, who then transfers me to another human being to the correct department, who then asks me three times if I have a dial tone on our landline. Explain multiple times that we do not own a landline telephone and, therefore, cannot check to see if we have a dial tone.
7. Wait patiently on phone as AT&T operator tells me that she will now run a series of tests to try and locate the problem.
8. Curse in frustration as call gets dropped for no reason.
9. Receive no phone call back from operator.
10. Go to sleep in hopes that internet will be magically restored when you wake up.
11. Wake up on Saturday morning. Still no internet service.
12. Call AT&T again. See #6. Repeat.
13. See #7. Repeat.
14. See #8. But do receive a call back from AT&T operator!!
15. Operator is not able to locate the problem. Tells me that they will have to send a repair technician out to our condo. "Sometime in between the hours of 8am and 8pm." *!@$#($($&**!!!
16. At 8:00pm on the dot, Schmooblebuns gets on the phone with AT&T and curses them out for telling us that a repair technician is coming and making us wait inside all day for a person that never came. Is told that they did not even have a service docket on the record for us.
17. Get confirmation that a repair technician will be coming out to visit the next day. "Pfft, yeah right" you think to yourself.
18. Go out to drown our frustrations with food, drinks and merriment with some friends. I stay sober. Schmoobles does not.
19. Pull over on side of newly paved road in our neighborhood as Schmoobles wretches all the demons out of his body out the passenger side window.
20. Wake up on Sunday morning. AT&T repairman shows up. Finds that a single wire was loose in the box where somebody nearby had installed U-verse. Internet is fixed.
The end.
Here are some pictures!
I found this mini Christmas tree that I had bought last year in a box of forgotten holiday decorations that was hiding in one of our closets. I put it on the floor and, next thing I know, BB had grabbed the top of the tree in her mouth and was attempting to drag it inside her crate! OMG. She wanted her own Christmas tree inside her kennel. She's no longer allowed to be near it without supervision, however, since she just tries to eat the tree.
Casual Beebla shot.
Do you see Bela?
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