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As of today we have been moved in for a month.
SBC still has not sent us our DSL modem, and the only Internet we have continues to be that which mecha is wirelessly leeching from his sister's network across the parking lot -- spotty, sporadic, and prone to drop connections, and utterly useless to my own computer since we can't get the connection to share from mecha's for some reason.
Postmarked two days ago we got a bill from SBC. Including a $30something charge for a month's DSL. Y'know, the DSL that they haven't bothered to let us access.
We're pissed, naturally. Mecha's going to see if he can get them to give him a refund for the cost if he just goes out and BUYS a modem, and definitely there is going to be some chewing out of SBC people for daring to charge us for something that we don't even have.
If you're wondering what happens when an Internet geek almost completely loses her connectivity for a month straight (as well as having no TV save what's sitting around on DVD), the answer is: she gets very, very bored. And starts sleeping more just so she'll have something to do, after having tried sketching, playing Sims, playing GTA, watching movies (some of them twice running -- regular, then commentary), and reading book after book after book in the ceaseless drive to find something, anything, to do. I even gave in and read the second Harry Potter book, I was so bored. Found it just as not worth the hype as the first.
It's really not fun.
But anyway. As a nice jolting change of subject, behold the pitifulness in..... ( THE FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL MEME )
SBC still has not sent us our DSL modem, and the only Internet we have continues to be that which mecha is wirelessly leeching from his sister's network across the parking lot -- spotty, sporadic, and prone to drop connections, and utterly useless to my own computer since we can't get the connection to share from mecha's for some reason.
Postmarked two days ago we got a bill from SBC. Including a $30something charge for a month's DSL. Y'know, the DSL that they haven't bothered to let us access.
We're pissed, naturally. Mecha's going to see if he can get them to give him a refund for the cost if he just goes out and BUYS a modem, and definitely there is going to be some chewing out of SBC people for daring to charge us for something that we don't even have.
If you're wondering what happens when an Internet geek almost completely loses her connectivity for a month straight (as well as having no TV save what's sitting around on DVD), the answer is: she gets very, very bored. And starts sleeping more just so she'll have something to do, after having tried sketching, playing Sims, playing GTA, watching movies (some of them twice running -- regular, then commentary), and reading book after book after book in the ceaseless drive to find something, anything, to do. I even gave in and read the second Harry Potter book, I was so bored. Found it just as not worth the hype as the first.
It's really not fun.
But anyway. As a nice jolting change of subject, behold the pitifulness in..... ( THE FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL MEME )
