Damn it! I came home from work early this a.m., did a brief check on email, hit the bed and drifted off into Sandman Land. Wonderful! Woke up to “YOU CAN’T CONNECT TO THE INTERNET!!!!”

After doing all those little techie things myself, like disconnecting the cable modem from the power supply, network cable, reboot the systems, check the ‘network’ settings and ‘repair the connection’ – blah, blah, blah, I gave up and called Cox. One technician ran me through a set of drills, some of which I’d already done. I was able to log onto a website. Hang up the phone!

Aghhh! Can’t log onto any website. Call Cox. Another technician tried a few other things, long onto several websites, hang up the phone.

What? Can’t log onto any website. Call Cox. Repeat…finally this technician connected me to a ‘higher grade of tech’. We walked through several of the same steps and he concluded that either the operating system was having a problem with the registry and breaking the connection or it might be my network card or it might be my cable modem…AGHHHH!!!!

I jumped past the networking card by connecting my modem through a USB cable. That meant finding the installation disk for the modem etc. Done deal. I’m now able to connect but it took two wasted hours of my precious time and lots of irritation for me. Damn, double damn, triple damn! I hate it when I have a computer problem.

I had a wonderful little run of a post to put up and now it will have to wait until tomorrow because I’m out of time and out of patience…oh yeah and work is waiting.

Check back though, it’s about a little $4,000-8,000 game with superstar Sammy F. Even though most of the dealers wish he’d just get sucked into the cooling system I just can’t help but chuckle over his antics and his personality.