Markets Burning

The markets are in a free fall. Friday the Dow swung 1000 points. (18% down for the week) At the end of the day, it rallied to only be 150 down. Hoping positive thoughts for the G7 Financial Ministers meeting this weekend. They think they’re going to get seven pre-eminent economists to agree on a … Read more

Day 23: DSL Returns

I finally have Internet back at the house. Took me over an hour and a half with tech support – solved in 10 minutes of course once I got to talk to Cal in Second Level Support. I explained what I thought the problem was to him, he said “you’re right”, and told me the … Read more

At&t Is Oblivious

18 days after the storm and I get the runaround or the cover-my-ass questions from the AT&T reps. “you only contacted us this morning for the first time?” Since I’ve been without power for 14 days and couldn’t confirm their outage, they will want me to pay. And on top of that they have NO … Read more

Moving Forward

My estimate of 10 more days seems to have worked.  The power was back on the same day, after only 14 days without.  AT&T in typical form messed up my DSL while fixing my voice line.  Unfortunately, Virginia’s Internet went out the same day.  (My computer is at her house.)

Back at the Board

It’s Day 14 since Ike. Friday night. First time Molly & the Ringwalds have played the happy hour in three weeks -seems like longer. I’m back at the sound board where I have been most Fridays for over four years. Big news is I stopped at home after work and I had power. Apparently a … Read more