Connections

We are currently disconnected from the INTERNET. We are switching providers from a real dorkey system, hopefully to a provider we hope will give us much better service. Of course we are running into problems immediately. The last cable provider did such a squirrelly job of installation the Quest guy is just walking round the house scratching his head and marveling that what service we did get we got at all. Now, the Quest guy now, cannot even find a place to hook out house to the mainline, he has driven round the neighbor hood looking for the “signal”.

My buddy across the street: Dan, also works for Quest, as a lineman. I doubt he has anything to do with installations but when Marty, the install guy, started scratching his head and making sound like, ‘I cannot find, the signal,’ or some such stuff Dianne starts using the “Dan card”to the point of calling poor ?Dan, who is out in the field, way out in /west Jordan, doing who knows what on some pole comes on line, a little guarded and Dianne identifies herself, the guard comes almost all the way down when Dianne passes the phone off to Marty, who actually does know Dan. Dan sis still on “speaker “ and his voice has becomes cautious, not sure what is going on—like we’re asking him to fix a race or throw a fight. Luckily, he is really to far away to intervene but actually can give Marty some good ‘intel’ regarding local quest-line connections. This process is slow going and I can tell Marty has some time pressures on him but he is being patient with both of us as they search for the signal and then the password. Marty finally found the signal and then the two wrestled with the issue of not being able to upload, ‘Qwest’s’ own security package—which I am not too worried about—it seems there is some sort of blocker on the big computer system. Again, I am really not too worried about security issues and my systems and connections—Dianne is much more concerned so I guess we are going to have to figure something out. Mark A. and Jasmine are coming over this afternoon and mabe we can figure something out then.

Its way cold today, we have not really started using the furnace and I don’t think we intend to until we are driven by biter cold, in an effort tom save money. I don’t think this decision has anything to do with the “meltdown” we have been conserving all summer and it just makes sense we would keep conserving in the winter as well. We saved hundreds this summer by not running the air conditioner and sleeping with cool wet clothes over our heads. I guess we just do the opposite now till spring.

The Direct TV guy just arrived and barely speaks English, a cute little Asian guy who I hung up on this morning when he called to verify the appointment—Imcould not understand him and I thought he was a Spanish speaker with the wrong number, boy was I off.