Today

Today was one of those classic days when I should have just stayed in bed. It started off with the Internet connection not working as I tried to go online this morning. This happens at times and I usually just futz around with the cords connected to the little Internet box on the floor, and that tends to do the trick.

Today, however, I futzed around for TWO hours with the frakking cords and nothing happened. I called my sister to ask her what the little box on the floor is called and she said: "It's a router." Ok, a router. I stomped over to Circuit City and picked up a new damn router.

Got back home, started installing and that's when I realized: the little box on the floor is not a router, it's a MODEM. Back to Circuit City, exchange router for modem, home again, trying to install. Now my sister's boyfriend was helping me. Still, the damn new little box didn't work either.

Called Time Warner, calls were dropped several times, got different people every time, they all said different things: "Stop by our service center, we'll give you a new modem" or "It's not the modem, it's the signal" or "Let me register your new modem and get rid of the old" or "Don't install the new one, we'll have a guy come over to look at the old one."

Almost crying. To top it all off, the freaking router gave me a charley horse as I was swinging it in my hands and it got stuck between my thigh and the lamp post on my way back to circuit crap.

Anywho, long story short. I finally gave up about 4pm and now, about 6:30pm the damn thing is working again. My old modem. I just wasted my whole day. And now I have two modems for no reason. URRRRGGGGH.