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anigoThis shit is giving me a stress headache.
Ok, so update. I called Aliant back because when I tried to reconnect my router it said there was no internet connection and i wanted to see if there was any way I could ping something just to double check if there was anything amiss.
The person (I think it was either a girl with a really bad smoker's voice or a slightly effeminate man) asked me if I'd made any changes to my service lately. Well, actually I have. I switched from normal high speed to "ultra" highspeed about a month ago (and really, I might add, never noticed any difference - but I stacked that up to Ernie and Bert both being senile old farts. But I digress).
Ok, well, click on your ultra high speed icon.
What ultra high speed icon?
There's no ultra high speed icon? If you go into your programs, do you have an ultra high speed icon there?
Um. No. Why would I?
Well, when you loaded it from the disk (ah, that disk thing again)
I never loaded anything. I do not have a disk.
Didn't you get a disk?
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK.
(Everybody, repeat it with me)
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK
So apparently what it looks like *might* have happened is when the card malfunctioned they switched me off the old network (that didn't require a disk) and put me on the new highspeed network (that does require a disk) and now I need a disk. Which I don't have... because..
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK.
They're going to put one in the mail for me, but in the meantime I can try one of the support centres and see if they have one. Mind you the support centres are all about half an hour's drive away from here, but I'm gonna do it anyway. I need my disk, and..
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK!
And I can pick up a christmas present I want to get for The Kid while I'm out, so I might as well go.
In other wonderful news, I've been waiting for my package of BPAL smellies for 3 months now. A wait isn't unusual. That's the way they work. But I should receive it any day now. I've been greeting the post man at the door like a freekin' puppy waiting for a package. Today the post man rings my door bell while I'm in the shower. YIPPEE! I run out of the shower, throw on a robe run to the door, and there's this fat, asthmatic old post man who says he has a parcel for The Kid but it's gonna cost me $10.21. I don't have $10.20 and he will not accept a cheque. However, he will accept Visa but he has to get his thingie, so he wheezes back to his post truck, is gone for a long long time, and when he comes back he says he can't take visa. Well, I don't have any cash, so he's out of luck. So he has to wheeze back to his truck again (with much sighing and eye rolling I might add) to get me a slip so I can pick it up at the post office tomorrow.
So, no smellies.
***Le sigh***
Ok, so update. I called Aliant back because when I tried to reconnect my router it said there was no internet connection and i wanted to see if there was any way I could ping something just to double check if there was anything amiss.
The person (I think it was either a girl with a really bad smoker's voice or a slightly effeminate man) asked me if I'd made any changes to my service lately. Well, actually I have. I switched from normal high speed to "ultra" highspeed about a month ago (and really, I might add, never noticed any difference - but I stacked that up to Ernie and Bert both being senile old farts. But I digress).
Ok, well, click on your ultra high speed icon.
What ultra high speed icon?
There's no ultra high speed icon? If you go into your programs, do you have an ultra high speed icon there?
Um. No. Why would I?
Well, when you loaded it from the disk (ah, that disk thing again)
I never loaded anything. I do not have a disk.
Didn't you get a disk?
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK.
(Everybody, repeat it with me)
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK
So apparently what it looks like *might* have happened is when the card malfunctioned they switched me off the old network (that didn't require a disk) and put me on the new highspeed network (that does require a disk) and now I need a disk. Which I don't have... because..
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK.
They're going to put one in the mail for me, but in the meantime I can try one of the support centres and see if they have one. Mind you the support centres are all about half an hour's drive away from here, but I'm gonna do it anyway. I need my disk, and..
I DO NOT HAVE A DISK!
And I can pick up a christmas present I want to get for The Kid while I'm out, so I might as well go.
In other wonderful news, I've been waiting for my package of BPAL smellies for 3 months now. A wait isn't unusual. That's the way they work. But I should receive it any day now. I've been greeting the post man at the door like a freekin' puppy waiting for a package. Today the post man rings my door bell while I'm in the shower. YIPPEE! I run out of the shower, throw on a robe run to the door, and there's this fat, asthmatic old post man who says he has a parcel for The Kid but it's gonna cost me $10.21. I don't have $10.20 and he will not accept a cheque. However, he will accept Visa but he has to get his thingie, so he wheezes back to his post truck, is gone for a long long time, and when he comes back he says he can't take visa. Well, I don't have any cash, so he's out of luck. So he has to wheeze back to his truck again (with much sighing and eye rolling I might add) to get me a slip so I can pick it up at the post office tomorrow.
So, no smellies.
***Le sigh***