I went and got the tire changed yesterday (it had been sitting too long with a flat + it was old = tire was beyond repair) and then ran my chores. Afterwards I felt so cheery and productive that I went and cleaned my apartment, made lasagna, and put in the new extension cord so that the lamp in the corner of the apartment will be actually usable. Unfortunately that meant unplugging and then re-plugging my wireless, which then promptly stopped working.
By which I mean the DSL was on, my computer was connected, by neither the ethernet or the wireless were connecting me reliably.
After some phone calls I was told that this was because I didn't register my new internet connection when I moved (leaving me to ask, indignant and more than a little confused, why on earth did my internet work for three month without registration and probably would have kept on working had I not unplugged it?) (the agent didn't have an answer). (Also she was just...unhelpful. Somewhat less than competent. I like the other guy I had to call in the summer better.) Then it came on that for whatever reason, I could register, because the connection was intermittent even with ethernet and so the agent unhelpfully told me to keep my computer open and see if the page ever loads and scheduled me for a technician on Monday, from 12 to 4pm, without telling me that she'd scheduled me for a technician. (I discovered this from another phone call, four hours later to try to figure out why the hell she had't called back like she said she would, and had to reschedule the appointment for Wednesday because they need a date and time when I'll actually be home.)
(Meanwhile I finished two books, made food, backed up my files and finished season 2 of Due South.)
But yeah, this morning, for whatever random reason, I've managed to register, without downloading that hideous help program that the other times the att page keep insisting I need (which would then take forever to load and my connection would always cut at sometime around 76% done). I appear to have internet now. I have no idea what happened. But I'll go and see if this lasts and if it does, then I'll call on Tuesday and cancer my appointment.
That was my little adventure (read: frustration) this weekend. I've a peach pie baking in the oven. When it's done I think I'll go and walk to the beach. Too bad my mp3 player is still broken and no amount of troubleshooting on my end seems to fix it. (I need to get a set of those small tools. You know, like the one you use on watches?)
Well, cheers. Fingers crossed on the internet!
[edit 10:21]
Verified: both ethernet and wireless now works. What the hell, 2wire? What the hell?
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