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Wed., January 4, 2006

My high-speed internet was finally activated today. What a long, irritating trial that was.

I ordered DSL service from Verizon soon after I moved in October and after three postponed activation dates, threats from myself, speaking with managers and receiving pleading “please give us another chance” letters, the service was switched on December 24.

Naturally, there was something awry with my telephone jack, which necessitated a service appointment. The technician bailed on the first scheduled appointment on Tuesday without explanation, then showed up today and fixed it. Props to my super, Rodolfo, for letting the guy in with my spare set of keys. I wasn’t about to wait around my apartment “between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.” for some jackass techie to maybe show up.

I still had to spend a half hour on the phone after work today with a patient tech service rep because the CD-ROM Verizon supplies Mac users to configure the modem doesn’t work under the Tiger operating system. (It claims one doesn’t have administrative access privileges, even if one is the sole user and therefore administrator of one’s computer, as is my case.) I had to configure all of the name/password stuff and networking preferences manually.

I hooked up my Airport Express and nerdily christened my new wireless network Argo. Soon after viewing some pornography online to ensure the connection was working, my Mac stubbornly refused to locate the wireless network, although if this is a true and persistent problem, it will be the first that hasn’t been Verizon’s fault. I can still surf the web if I plug my Ethernet cable directly from my PowerBook into the modem, so now it’s just getting the wireless bit up and running, and I’m set.

I can honestly say I missed the internet the past two months at home only for checking the weather, directions and movie show times. I admit it was a pain to compose blog entries at home, then cart them to work for uploading during my lunch break. But on the whole, I spent most of my no-internet wilderness time reading books. Although as an omnipresent and all-knowing reference oracle, I welcome the ’net back into my home life.

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On January 5, 2006 at 10:23 p.m., Andie Hine wrote:

Yay! Congratulations! What a pain in the ass all that was. It is good to have you back - I can feel it in the force.

On January 6, 2006 at 2:47 a.m., Jimi Sweet wrote:

Welcome to The Modern World!