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The Roadrunner Guy.....and "Shift" Happens

Scenario - Day 1: I woke up yesterday morning and do the same routine like any other morning. Use the bathroom, brush my teek and take a shower. Ah...the aroma of fresh brewed coffee! I scurry about getting ready and of course remembering to make the bed before I prance out to my desk. Coffee already made and sitting on my desk, my computer is already up and running and I click on Outlook and take a sip. Ummmmm. Wonderful!

Until......... ERROR! Outlook can't detect...email server.

Frantic, I click on my internet and .....NOTHING. ERROR!

I drag out our Mac laptop and manage to get a signal and ... reluctantly start checking my email manually. Ewwwww. Small keyboard and itty bitty keys. Ewwwww. Mistakes...hitting other keys, palm keeps hitting the scroll down and whacking everything out.

Then click on ActiveRain (normal routine....email ..then ActiveRain). This has been my routine for a year and four months. My life and business depend on the internet. My love of blogging is dependent on the internet. Tap ...tap....tap. UGH! I get disgusted and finish getting ready, drop Gary at his car and onward ho to Time Warner to pick up a new modem.

Rush home...plug in...reboot everything and....NOTHING!

Scenario- Day 2: Same routine in the morning as Scenario #1. I have a wonderful husband who makes that coffee and boots up my pc while I'm getting a shower :) I get disgusted but Gary reminds me that "at least I have the laptop" so I can peek at what's going on. I work a half day (Good, still have time before the office opens...so I finish my post) at the office and rush home in anticipation of the arrival of......the Roadrunner guy.

Have any of you ever been that excited to meet the Roadrunner guy?

It's not the wiring, it's not the thingy outside and it's not network. He changed modems twice and each time had to call in to connect new modems by serial number. Now this is the third modem in two days. What the hay? Wait! Look! The Roadrunner Guy looks up and sure enough....after 10 minutes the modem kick starts to life! WooHoo! I tell the Roadrunner Guy to hit the switch to reboot our whole network and then I boot up my PC.

Please...please...please....I'll be good..... HAHAHAH! You guys ever do that?

Well, I click on the internet and voila!!!!

MY LIFE IS DEPENDENT ON THE INTERNET.

That's okay though ....when 'stuff' happens ....I'll just go through withdrawls for awhile.

I know that in the end....it will all work out.

And this is why I don't trip when ActiveRain is upgrading, updating and all of that.

"Shift" Happens.

* Thanks to "CRUZ" the Roadrunner Guy...for laughing with me... talking with me...walking through all of it with me....and fixing the darn problem!

Posted by Celeste "SALLY" Cheeseman HAWAII Relocations & Real Estate on 06/20/2008 11:23 PM

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14 Comments on The Roadrunner Guy.....and "Shift" Happens

JUN

2008

Sally
:) good blog !, you are a monster of the internet, I wish to be there ! :P sometimes no time, but I enjoyed this great post !

Sally, I am sure glad that Mr Gore invented the internet. Our lives would be so different. No blogging, no CNN instant news, no twitters, and worst of all HUGE MLS listing books. I too am like you, when my DSL is down, I feel totally stripped and anxiously await the COX service person. The normality of my every day life resumes when I have internet service works.

the roadrunner guy...........how cute! I can't believe how dependent we are - I sometimes think about my parents............and how the mail back home was their life line..........there sole form of communication with their families - we immigrated from Croatia - 50 years ago and the post took 2-3 weeks...........and they waited and waited, anticipating, going to the post office.....to see...........I can't imagine that kind of patience anymore...can you? lol

Sally ... what did we ever do without the internet? Jeeze... I can remember when my husband brought our first computer home and I said "What did you buy THAT for?" I can remember no cell phones, no answering *machines*. Heck, I can even remember buying our "state of the art" VCR with a CORDED remote! We needed a VCR cause our TV only got 7 channels. I love technology!

Thanks Ray...nice seeing you around!

Leolinda: Me tooooo! I was sooo stripped...but it's such a wonderful feeling when it's up and running again....it's like a kid in a candy shoppe!!!

Liz: He was a nice kid. I like when they're friendly and talk a little...:) Makes the waiting more bearable :) I also told him I was going to swipe his super duper modem that was working fine...haha.

WOO HOO! 1st allow me to say, that was a great dialog of what was happening. Now, I if I told you that I had virtually the exact same thing and my system was down for so many hours today and I was in the middle of counter offers and couldn't get my emails which had the new counters in the e-mail and and and and , gauwd, I thought I was going have a fit. Then sitting on the phone and out of all this , there was a beacon of light. I discovered that my slow TW ( you know who) cable could be greatly enhanced for the small price of $10 additional a month, I will get nearly double the speed. I will pay it and I have to go get yet another faster modem on Monday.

Whew, I am glad I didn't write a post on this,lol. Thankfully you did,:-)

Sharon: Hey...black and white tv was the "IN" thing in my day LOL! I was one who grasped on to technology and change.... and with us always messing around with our network I'm used to all the stuff.... it's just a little irritating.

William: Hey...we did the Turbo thingy months ago. Now they're going to have some Platinum thingy ..haha. One thing is for sure...we just added on SonicWall TZ180 ...go here:

http://sonicwall.com/us/products/TZ_180.html

and then this happens...

Now...we fly!!!!!

JUN

2008

Sally, haven't had my modem go out, but I've been going crazy with the speed. I hit a button and then go reorginize my kitchen and it's finally there (towards the end!), don't know what's going on, but it makes for a long AR fix,.,

Chris: I'm flying now... the internet only goes as fast as the internet...and web pages only go as fast as their servers. AR is flying ...I'm flying...it's all good!

Sally- The mark of a good blogger.....you can write about anything :) :) Anyway, long story short...it was out, its on, you're glad, and we're glad.....well that about sums it up, except some of us aren't that spoiled, or lucky to have someone make our coffee and have it ready by the computer every morning :) Now if anything happened to my coffee in the morning, that would concern me LOL :)

I am sure most of the folks on here can empathize....it is frustrating for sure. BTW, what a guy - boots your PC and makes your coffee!

Kathy: Okay....the coffee would upset me a little....but got a Starbucks a couple blocks away :) And you just don't know.....how HAPPY I was :)

Gary: He is....such a guy :) Thanks Gary!

JUN

2008

Sally - you are so right on this one! I cannot imagine life without the internet!!!!

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