Time Warner is not smart
May 8, 2008 by arielle
I got home from work and my Internet service was down. I tried to get on the neighbor’s network, which, by the way, is named “Lady Valentine.” I imagine she wears red and black lacy lingerie pretty much 24/7. (I hope she doesn’t read this and set up a password because my Internet breaks about nine times a day, and I use hers possibly more than our own. Ours is creatively named “Linksys.”) Anyway, Lady Valentine’s Internet wasn’t working either.
So I had to call up good old Time Warner so that a helpful gentleman could make me brush about two inches of dust off my desktop and climb under my desk to disconnect a bunch of hard to reach wires only to then tell me that service was down in my area.
Did you know that you can’t do anything without the Internet these days? Seriously, it took me about ten minutes to even figure out how to get the number to Time Warner without being able to look it up online. I was actually dialing my mom’s number so I could ask her to look it up for me when I realized that I have a blackberry with web access. Whew.
Anyway, on my way home I stopped by the health food store because I have an addiction to food shopping and I picked up one of these:
Soy jerky. Because, as I think we’ve established, I am a big fan of fake meat, and these things call out to me every time I go in this store. Which is about every day. The guy who works there even noticed that I got a haircut over the weekend.
These are pretty good, although I’ve never had real beef jerky so I’m not sure how it would compare. But if you like barbecue, you’d probably like these.
I also had some plain yogurt with strawberry jam and a couple little pieces of walnut:
Your neighbor is called “Lady Valentine”?? Interesting, haha :0D
I know what you mean - our society is so dependent on the internet, that it’s hard to do a lot of things without it - scary!
I used to live with my sister when I was in high school (long story, my parents were in Italy for extended periods of time), and she has a tech-savvy husband who she made turn off the wireless internet at 11 PM (after finding me only at 5 AM numerous times). Thank goodness for neighbours with wireless that doesn’t have a password!!
I so agree with that internet comment! I can’t imagine myself NOT using the internet. Whenever I get into an argument with someone I want to look up the facts on Wikipedia or something, ahha
Don’t worry, you’re not missing out on much at all in Parkersburg =) Where do you live at now if you don’t mind me asking?
Faux meat is my fav. But faux jerky? I don’t think there’s a place for that in my life.
LOL haaaaaaa! mine is named default, so i think i have you beat on creativeness
VeggieGirl -
She’s not called that, her wireless is. If that was her name, I definitely would have posted about it by now. Trust me.
Romina -
I wish I was in Italy for extended periods of time.
Amber -
I live in Brooklyn. I have a friend who lives in Romney; have you been there? Yikes.
Ben -
You can make room. Trust me.
Lindz -
Yeah, you win for sure.
Someone who names her wireless internet connection Lady Valentine must be one special woman. I think you need to find out about this said lady valentine…. does she have a backyard for cookouts?
Eating -
Now that’s a good question.