Wednesday – 12 May 2010
Midweek and all’s (relatively speaking) well.
It’s Comics and Sushi Wednesday.

Today also marks one year since I lost my friend, Jessica, to a battle with pulmonary hypertension.

It doesn’t have to be dark for you to reach for the stars — they are always out there waiting to be touched

…and sometimes, if we’re lucky, a star reaches out for us, too.

My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family – my adopted family – today. She was a great person; I still miss having her around, but I’m glad for the time that we had to spend together.

Stray Toasters

  • Here is the latest chapter in The Great Comcast Saga:

    Yesterday, I got home from work and saw a Comcast technician, John, working around the corner from the house.  I asked if he was working on our seemingly never-ending quest for service. He said that he wasn’t… but he then asked if I had just moved into the neighborhood. I told him that I had and that I was waiting for service to be restored to the house. He said that he had done service work for [our] house for the past few years.

    And then he hit me with a bombshell: The service node in which he was working – NOT the one in our front yard – was the one that contained the line that goes to our house.

    *blink blink*

    Yeah. Not only does that mean that Steve, the first Comcast tech to attempt reconnection, went to the wrong box, but that NO OTHER Comcast representative figured out that Box A != Box B…. which means that we could should have had service two weeks ago.

    *grblsnrkx*

    As it stands, John, cancelled the dig/burial work order and put us in for reconnection. Our new reconnection appointment is scheduled for “early Friday morning.”  (Good thing it’s my Friday off…)

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  • Strange Signs from Abroad
  • …said the Bishop to the Actress
  • A Simple Photo of a Plane Taking Off…. From Head-on
  • Novel-Ts – I have (at least) two new items for The Covet List:
    1. Poe (Raven)
    2. Poe (Heart)
  • High-Tech Underwear for Adventurous Geeks
  • Home prices could sink without tax credit
  • Keep holding on so long
    ‘Cause there’s a chance
    that we might not be so wrong
    We could be down and gone
    But we hold on
  • Trigger Green Traffic Lights

Meetings and things and stuff.

Namaste.