Josh Anastasia

After all the running around we’ve been doing, we finally had time to stop at the AT&T store to pick up DSL. Get that done and we have to wait a week for AT&T to activate the account. I waited, patiently I might add, for the week to go by. It also helped a whole lot that I was in the hospital.

Monday: I’m going to work, Ness is driving, I black out. Before I black out I’ve been slightly dizzy and lightheaded. I’ve also been having nosebleeds. I go to the ER, they run some tests. They are just about to let me go home when they realize one of the tests that the doctor wanted, wasn’t done. They do it quickly and it’s “abnormal.” I’m admitted.

Tuesday - Thursday: I’m in the hospital, sharing a room with a crazy person who talks in their sleep. Talks loudly in their sleep. They let me leave Thursday morning after running every test they possibly can and can’t find anything wrong. They think I had an inner ear thing. Whatever.

I get home, the first thing I do is try to get the internet to work. I try all four phone jacks and it just wouldn’t work. I call AT&T and they say there is something wrong with my line and they will have to send someone out to fix it.

Friday: I wait all day for this AT&T person to come. The first guy that comes acts like a weird, ignorant, seemingly perverted kind of guy. He says he can’t fix it today because the neighbor’s gate is locked so he can’t get to the terminal. About an hour later, another AT&T person shows up. She’s nice and says that the other guy is an idiot and she always double checks his work because he usually does something wrong or he’s too lazy to do something. She confirms that she has to wait.

Saturday: My parents came out to visit for the day. I guess they felt bad that I was in the hospital for a few days and they didn’t come and see me then. Not sure. But we spend the day together. I take them to the Apple Store. I think I have convinced them to by a Mac the next time they buy a computer. Yay! I will steal it from them. After I get back from the Apple Store, there’s a note from AT&T saying it’s fixed and should be working. I can’t go and try to set it up while my parents are here, so I wait anxiously for them to leave so I can get on the internet. It didn’t matter anyway, because it still didn’t work.

Sunday: I decide to give it another go. To my surprise, there are two green lights instead of two red lights, or one green and one red, on the modem. I’m excited and I get my hopes up. Still doesn’t work. I call tech support for the third or fourth time this week and they try to help me. The tech guy concludes that my modem is a dud. I have to call hardware replacement to get a new modem.

I still have to call them…but at least I’m making progress with getting the internet.

Oh, and my birthday is on Friday. Oh, and the Patriots lost the Super Bowl. I hate the Patriots. I’m not a fan of the Giants either, but the Patriots lost, so I am happy about that.