Middle America's Worldview

Our internet is out and no ETA on the resurrection of our beloved pipeline to the outside world.


Kel mentioned last night, I should go to Sweet Bay and work from there. Hmm, that's a hell of an idea. Mocha at my leasure and a new surrounding. The commercial of the poor guy in a chair trying to work while being bombarded by all the people, slightly entered my mine. It's not all that bad actually.

I called Sweet Bay this morning asking if they still had the net problem. They did not. I asked if I could squat there and do some work. The super basically said, yeah sure, we have people here all day at times. Sweet. Dropped the kids and away to the calling Mocha house.

I am squatting in a 'dark' corner in a simple room. A nice cubby hole with the monitor only pointing to me. The shops been slow today (the attendants were commenting to each other outside the room) and it's actually cozy. I think later in the future, I might have to do this again to just change the surroundings. The workers havent even came in here nor bothered me at all. I leasurely drank my Mocha all morning, the wife came over and we had lunch. I cranked out tons of work. Ahh, if it can only be this way everyday.

As far as Cox Cable, they did some kindof conversion Saturday night. We woke up Sunday morning and could not get our net fix. I called for an outage and was told a conversion had taken place, try later. At 3 p.m. central I called back and asked for a status, still no net. I was then told the conversion took longer than expected and it was done an hour ago. OK. I rebooted everything and still no go. It showed connection but no-go on the browser. Hmm. I called back and finally got ahold of someone else. "Yeah, we are showing everything good on our side, but no traffic on the backbone. Seems like your one of those areas still effected. The tech guys are on it and it should be done by midnight (day end)." Thanks buddy. I won't say what the other guy said but to make it short, it wasn't resolved. A 6 a.m. Monday call provided no fruit either, nor a 11 a.m call. The people answering the phones simply are not informed by anyone on the field. One guy ( I spoke to about 8 today) told me at least 20 other calls were in on the same issue in my area. Hence, it's not just us. This was after another one told me it wouldn't be till Thursday till a tech guy was availible. Unacceptable. I pissed and moaned till someone called their super and was then informed a tech would be in our area, if not our house today. Sigh, it sucks the Squeaky wheel gets the first turn.