They don’t! That’s about the size of it. I hit Vegas yesterday, went to ATT (yah, another ATT story) to pick up a wireless laptop card. Sign in and wait in line. SWEET! I got a USB connect card and hit the old digs to install it and get to work. Not to worry, I immediately got connected but every time I tried to access a new web page, I got a ‘redialing’ error.
The damn thing quit working, after removing it, shutting down the communication manager, and starting over, it worked again…briefly and then right back to the same error. I called support. A very nice lady sent me to places I’d already been on my computer, I got reconnected after about 35 minutes and she left me or I decided the ear buds were going to grow into my ear canal if I didn’t end the call…not sure which happened first. But the whole evening was one of frustration. I decided to do some of my own digging because I kept getting the ‘redialing’ error. After going into my network connections, I unchecked my internal modem and got past the dialing error…the damn thing’s wireless…whadup with the dialing crap? I managed to spend about two hours working and didn’t get disconnected, shut the pc down and tried to sleep in a house that I spent 8 years in and now almost feel uncomfortable in. I slept like hell, managed about 4 hours or so and got up.
Back to the same phone issues. I called tech support again. Another very nice lady walked me through something we hadn’t tried before and told me the problem I was having which turned into ‘local and internet’ for awhile and then ‘local’ only access at the drop of a hat, was a windows vista issue. Microsoft was aware of the problem but there was no fix for it right now. Really fucking sweet! I tried the new fix, got connected again, she promised to call me back around 5pm or have another tech call me back and also told me if I reverted to service pack 1 it might solve the issue and sent me email info on how to do that.
I went to the dentist. He created a bit higher composite buildup on my upper molars – took about 45 minutes – and out the door I went. So far the evil tooth is behaving and I’m not running into it when I bite down. WOW! That’s been going on for almost 11 hours now and that’s a record in a year and a half of misery. A few more weeks will decide if this is going to work, if so, I will eventually have to have the molars with composite replaced with crowns but things should smooth out. I keep wondering how that would feel.
Back to the old digs and more computer misery. All of the work I wanted to do was continually interrupted by the same ‘local’ only access error after I managed a teensy bit of my workload. SHIT! I was really wishing I’d gone back to the new digs today after the dentist. It’s hot out, I’m grouching, and of course I have a ton of work to catch up on. I picked Riot up from Mom this pm and he’s with me now, we are spending the night in the house with dad and will go home tomorrow where we will look for rabbits and search for monsters and bears that might be hiding out in the salt cedars or mesquites. Kee-rist I hope we don’t find any.
True to her word, the ATT tech had someone call me at 5pm. He sent me to do a download of a ‘watcher generic’ at Sierra Vista and so far I have been connected to the internet and managing to catch up with the never ending flood of incoming tasks…and I’m pounding out a few lines here to boot.
For the first time in years, I called a guy four times in the last 5 days. He answered once. Yes…Cmac came to town – Charlie for all of us that play the PokerWorks 8 game tourney (which BTW, it’s this Sunday again) and we were going to try and meet up for a face to face, first liar doesn’t have a chance, all around general visit. It didn’t work out, although I tried but poker got in the way as usual and Charlie was playing tournaments downtown. That’s how things work.
I’m tired as hell, still have work to do, will load up and head back out to the new digs tomorrow with Riot and I do believe that is how things will work. G’nite!