Here's My Sign

Hey Peeps.

You ready to laugh? At me?

Let's rewind to yesterday morning. I'm up nice and early working away. I decide around 8:30 AM it is time to get in the shower and head to the office. I shut everything down. The home computer. The laptop. Turned off the fax machine.

Boss man calls from New Mexico needing some data. I go to plug back in to our network and my broadband isn't connecting. I call our help desk. Then I notice it.

I notice the dsl and internet light isn't on. The ethernet light is a nice solid glowing green.

Duh, there is sign one.

I hang up with the help desk and proceed to troubleshoot. Unplug everything. Plug it back in. Reset the modem. Plug the modem into another phone outlet. Check the connection from the back of the computer. Get what I am saying here? I tried it all.

I finally break down and call Qwest for help. Their associate tells me I have done everything I could do and they will dispatch a tech.

So we set up a time and I head to the office.

Today, after my afternoon became free (more soon to follow), I called to see if the tech could come today instead of Friday. Thankfully yes, they can accommodate my request.

So here comes the big hulk of a man to my door about thirty minutes ago. He was coming to save the day. He came to my rescue. Much like Ace did a few weekends ago in fixing my msn.

Y'all wanna' guess what was wrong with the set up?

Not to leave you in suspense and allow you the second laugh of the day at my expense {insert laughter} the phone cord wasn't plugged in all the way to the modem. Apparently part of the clip is broken off and the connection isn't a solid one.

Um, yea. Guess who felt like an idiot?

Yes, that would be moi.

So, that would be twice in a month I have felt like a dumb female needing a man to rescue herself from her computer.

First , Ace with simply installing updates to my msn to make it work again. Love you man!

Second, Qwest massive man Rod, to place tape on the back of my modem to hold the phone cord in place and politely suggest I should buy a new phone cord.

At this rate you'd think I have never been around a computer before.

Sheesh. I need to find a cave to crawl back into or something.

Peace and Love.