Unpromising mornings

We have an aDSL customer whose line has been down since last week--his phone line, too, and when Verizon fixed that his DSL didn't come back (shock, surprise). Those dumbfucks at Covad want to roll a Covad truck, at a mere $199 + $85/hr, rather than OH TALK TO THE VERIZON FUCKS WHO BROKE THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE. This means lots of time wasted on the phone with Covad's level 1 support in India, who have little to no idea of the American sport of Dances With Telcos.

We have another aDSL sucker who's suddenly getting some 40-50 KBps down (his upload speeds are fine). I'm sure his trouble ticket is going to meet an equally stupid fate. See figure 1.

Update: And another aDSLer just went down. Did these circuits just reach their best-by dates, or what?

NetWizards seem to have fucked things royally, and claim that cugc.org is about to expire, even though it's paid up through 2005. This is ongoing after I sent them mail in response to their first auto-notice, as it says to in the auto-notice, which they failed to respond to and apparently utterly ignored.

I haven't been to a class in nigh on two weeks. There will be pain.

*gibber*

The day has fulfilled the promise of the dawn. We have had terror clowns and anklebiters all damn day without respite.

Yet I fear no evil, for I have a rod and a staff to comfort me:

Here are the items that are now on their way to the address above:

  Item                                               Qty         Price
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  Xdrinks Root Beer Riot                             1          $34.99
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And may God have mercy on our souls!

Coherency: We've heard of it.

Some utterly unrelated tidbits:

( The Fruitcake Recipe. )

And, some of you will remember a previous post containing marketing drivel from a former and brief cow orker. Upon consideration, we realized it had a certain resemblance to Engrish, so Eli ran it through babelfish into Japanese and back again.

( Behold! )