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You left out the bankruptcy, and my own health problems... and now the damned van.  Yeah, it's been one hell of a shitty six months.

Eric Storm

My condolances, I was sad to hear about keeshaba I had just recently read some of her stories and very much liked her style.

So for your loss Eric, will continue to keep you in my thoughts.

An actual Writing Update:

For only the second day this entire year, I wrote something.  Whee!

Maybe I'll do the same tomorrow.

Or maybe it'll be another two goddamned months before I write again.  Grrr.

Eric Storm

Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

So last night, Speculum... er, I mean Spectrum, that merger of Farter Communications, Pop Warner, and Tight Blouse, had a service outage.  No big deal, since it happened right as I was going to bed, right?

Wrong.

When I got up this morning, Internet and cable were back... but my wi-fi had been disabled.  Wi-fi is provided by the Speculum modem/router box.  (Mind you, they provide this service to you at $5 a month.  Do you get a better box or at least a different box for your $5?  No.  They send an electronic code to the box you've got, to enable the feature.  For this, they charge you monthly.)

So, I get onto the support chat.  The jerk... er, ahem, I mean the wonderfully helpful customer service representative... tells me that he cannot re-activate my wi-fi because I have a disconnect order scheduled.  (Yes, I'm dropping Speculum, in favor of Frontier, for whom I haven't yet thought up a disparaging name.)  He tells me that I must call the cancellation dept. to get them to amend the order.

Now, mind you, I didn't tell them to stop ANY services early.  My bill is paid through April 4th, and I told them to disconnect service on April 4th.

*sigh*  So I call.  They confirm what the idio...er, ahem, I mean the CSR in chat told me: They cannot change service with the cancellation order in place.  They have to cancel the cancellation, in order to reactivate wi-fi.  Is it just me, or does anyone else see a plot here to try to force me to forego disconnecting service?

After talking to four different people (and being put on hold for each of them), I managed to get my wi-fi turned back on.  And oh yes, you bet your ass that I immediately re-instated the disconnect order.  This is just one of many times that Speculum has fallen way short on both technical and customer service.

You'd think that would be enough aggravation for one day, wouldn't you?  Well, apparently the universe disagrees.

In the mail, I received a notice that the bank needed paperwork related to Keeshaba's passing.  We shared bank accounts, so I have to deal with this.  Well, I've received the death certificates from the mortuary, so no big deal.  I figure I'll go down there, let them copy the DC, close one of the accounts, remove her name from the others, and be on my way.  Easy-peasy, right?

... Right?

... RIGHT????

When will I fucking learn?  I was at the bank for AN HOUR AND A HALF.  Most of that time was spent staring at the agent in front of me, while she sat there on hold, waiting to talk to some dickw... ahem, some highly skilled technician in a call center somewhere, because she was not allowed to remove Keeshaba's name from things, only the dickw... er, the highly skilled technicians... are.

So the task got done, and I managed to get out of the bank before closing time, but shit, people.

Why, oh why did I get up this morning?

Eric Storm

My sympathies to you for the way that you were treated by the 10t's in the various customer disservice departments.
Hoping that your life has some turn-around soon.

From NetWolf to Eric Storm to WRITER SMURF!!!! Hehee. I like it. I say do it!!!

Support blue, go to your profile and switch your visual style to "Oxygen"

Purple, like everybody else.

Eric Storm

Don't say it... say it... don't say it... say it...  Nah, I'm having an iffy day, I need the smile.

Black and blue balls from smackin' into yo mamma's chin!!!



Sorry, I needed that today.

So, today I rehomed Sprite, our cockatiel.  I didn't feel confident taking care of her with my eye problems.  She'll be better off where she is, I'm sure.

I said this on my Facebook page:  Do you remember that Star Trek: TNG episode where Wesley's experiment goes awry, and Dr. Crusher gets trapped in her own version of the Enterprise where people keep disappearing and her world keeps getting smaller?  Yeah, kinda starting to feel like that.

Eric Storm

The 2nd half of that 1st sentence made me completely forget/ignore the 1st half.🤗

Awp, someone told me to hurry up.  That's another three-week delay...



MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! 

Eric Storm