Routers, Modems, and crap like that.

Ugg Boot

I finally broke down and got away from dial up internet. I got dsl. It worked fine for 3 whole days. Then I get home from playing with my band at the club and the internet doesn't work. I spent about 2 hours yesterday with a.......I am not racist at all..... crackhead from another country that tried to tell me that my phone line was too long. What the hell does that mean? He said to hook my modem up to a shorter phone line and it should work fine. "We can send a tech out for $80. If it's a problem with our equipment, it won't cost anything." I said I'd call him back. I hook up the short phone line, still nothing. It's a modem problem I tell the tech. Finally, after trying to decipher a lost language, speaking to someone in a village with a population of about 7 in Aguanda, I tell him to send the tech out. After verifying that I am who I say I am, he says a tech will be by tomorrow morning before 12.
So, this morning my phone rings. It's the bell south dude. He said it's a problem with one of the filters on the phone line and that he checked out the phone line on the outside of the house and has already left. This does me no good. Finally, he's convinced to come back to my house. Guess what? The modem isn't working right. Hmmm Who would've figured that??? He put another modem on and....BLAM!!!! internet works again. My first thought..... Bellsouth is selling cheap pieces of crap modems for $75. Mine worked for 3 days. That's only $25 a day for a modem. They had better not put that replacement modem on my phone bill. Or I'll..... I'll.... pay it and post a nasty message on my blog site about it. Damn!!!

It happened one day, this day....

1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state
1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show . Yes folks, that's news.