It’s not cool when you return home with great ambitions to clean up the house before your Dad gets there on Friday to find out that the power has been out since 3:00. Even more convenient is the fact that I am the slowest unpacker ever which leads to not having flashlights or candles handy. As soon as the sun started going down, I managed to nab a shirt for work tomorrow and headed to the girlfriend’s place. It’s nice to be around little comforts like electricity and the Internet (Internet is supposedly being hooked up on Friday at my house).
Question: Why is it that Rogers needs to come into your house to hook up the Internet connection? We all know this isn’t necessary…I have the modem from my old place. All I have to do is hook it up to the cable outlet and voila! The technicians know very well as I do that the cable connection is on the side of someone’s house down the street. The excuse they gave me was something along the lines of ‘configuring it so you have most optimum connection known to man’ whereas I think it’s a ploy to check if I have pirate connections or worse; add something to the line which prevents the piracy of the cable signal. Yikes! Stay tuned. On Friday, they may be tracking my every move and this site may disappear within a keystroke.
Update: So I got a phone call last night from a machine saying that my power is back on. I thought that was a neat feature from Hydro One. They even had it set up so you could press 1 to confirm you had power, or 2 if you didn’t.