Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Almost Done!

It' s been awhile since I last posted! There have been many things happen since then. Had a little crisis with the bulletin board. My internet provider at my house hates me. Yes, it does. Actually, it's possessed. It knows when I sit down to log on and try to do some work because it immediately goes down. I can walk past the modem 50 times and see that we have a connection, but as soon as I turn my laptop on, BAM! No service! I get up, walk away for a little while and guess what's back? Yep, my connection. I sit down again and BAM! no service. I really think someone is trying to make me crazy! I have taken to yelling colorful 'words' at the computer screen and wanting to throw something. I saw this website on the news yesterday. It's called 'Twitter" and it askes one question.....What are you doing? Apparently, it's a place for people to vent about things. This one lady was having trouble with Comcast Cable Internet service. She called them a couple of times so that they could figure out why her service kept going down?! sound familiar? Well, she went to this site and started talking about all the trouble she was having and about how long it was going to take for them to come out and fix the problem. Her working partner called her within a couple of hours after she posted her complaint to ask who she had talked to at Comcast and just what did she say to them, because they were on the phone wanting to know if they could send someone right away to fix the problem! Corporations like Target, Comcast, Dell and others monitor that website so that they can keep their 'good' name from being sullied. (not sure of spelling) Very interesting!

Ok. Done with that ranting. I am starting to feel much better knowing that after this week, I can breathe again until August 11th! (That's when I go back on contract!) Believe me, I am so ready!

6 comments:

Lori Barton said...

It sounds as if you were experiencing the same thing my girls do when they want to get on the computer....Of course they always think it is the "stupid" desktop and want to use my laptop!!!! lol
Almost finished......I can't believe how fast this class has been....I am looking forward to having a couple of weeks to relax and enjoy my pool....

Alicia said...

Been there, done that. I dropped all service from my local telephone company b/c the dsl was so unreliable (same problems you described). Now I just have my cell phone and wireless internet on my laptop through my cell provider. It's nice...a few times it's slow (had trouble with webct tonight), but it's so much better than what I had. That's great to konw about "Twitter" too. I never knew of anything like that.

Hope all is well now and you're ready for tomorrow. Good luck!

Renee' H. said...

We're almost there!!!

Anonymous said...

funny, toni! good job yesterday!

Preston Sweeden said...

I enjoyed your post and it was good to learn about "twitter." Also, nice meeting you the other day. Good luck.

Anna Embry-Parks said...

Toni- I'm sorry about the bulletin board problem. That stinks!