Exciting times
Sort of. Our little group went to the canyon on Saturday and got ourselves all mosquito-bitten, but at least we had some fun. We got to chase a snake, nearly run over a horny toad, and sneak a few shots of a roadrunner while we were out. However, there were supposed to be bison and antelopes, and there ... weren't. Perhaps they were hiding from the rain, but those animals either don't exist as we were told they did, or they are incredibly shy. I can't see something as big as a bison being too shy. And they've got signs up everywhere about how antelope have rabies, Lyme's disease and bubonic plague, how they attack people ("chase, kick, bite and gore"), "degrade the environment," and how "they can be killed by cars," so don't feed the nasties. The signs seemed to be advocating running down the antelope because they were so horrible. They need a new set of signs; that doesn't strike me as being very national park-y.
In less pleasant news, I got my internet switched to a cheaper and slower version, and then had to spend from three that afternoon until after nine that night talking to various IT folks on the phone. Something about the change set my computer to only recognize numbers, so I could get to yahoo or whatever only via IP address. Much fun. I called the cable folks first, went through three tiers of help, and was told that NAV was responsible.
I called NAV, was yelled at (no kidding--yelled at) for insisting that we completely remove the program, even from the registry (that's what the cable folks told me to do), and was treated like a moron for not being able to understand the guy's heavy Indian accent. I can't help it if he says "P as in Peter" and I hear "T as in Teeter." Can't he say "T as in Tater Tot?" It's hard to misunderstand tater tot. Or for P, something like "P as in personable, patient, polite..."
After getting off the phone with NAV, I got to call the cable folks back, because the problem wasn't fixed. I went through the three tiers of support, and was told to call Dell. I spent 74 solid minutes, plus some odd seconds, on the phone with Dell. This is not including hold. In the end, he wanted to transfer me to a group of folks who could "definitely" solve my problem--but which would then charge me for doing it. I was reassured that, in the case of these folks not really solving my problem, they'd refund my credit card.
Instead of doing this, I convinced him to ghost my machine over the phone. The result was a factory-settings computer and no charged card. Now that I know the secret method of doing this without internet access, I can ghost the thing as often as needed.
In other news, my wrist has been giving me problems again. I've been wearing the brace for a little over a week, and it's finally starting to work. Of course, every time I try to pull on a shirt, I pop the dang thing, and have to start over with the brace. By start of term, I should be good to go, however.
So. Computer stuff, canyon stuff, wrist stuff. What else is new? The demos are done. I spent entirely too much of my life worrying over those. But they're done, and they're beautiful.
Well, that's only about half of what I had written before NAV (demonspawn program) shut off my computer without my permission. And I'm in no mood to retype it all, so there you are.
End.
In less pleasant news, I got my internet switched to a cheaper and slower version, and then had to spend from three that afternoon until after nine that night talking to various IT folks on the phone. Something about the change set my computer to only recognize numbers, so I could get to yahoo or whatever only via IP address. Much fun. I called the cable folks first, went through three tiers of help, and was told that NAV was responsible.
I called NAV, was yelled at (no kidding--yelled at) for insisting that we completely remove the program, even from the registry (that's what the cable folks told me to do), and was treated like a moron for not being able to understand the guy's heavy Indian accent. I can't help it if he says "P as in Peter" and I hear "T as in Teeter." Can't he say "T as in Tater Tot?" It's hard to misunderstand tater tot. Or for P, something like "P as in personable, patient, polite..."
After getting off the phone with NAV, I got to call the cable folks back, because the problem wasn't fixed. I went through the three tiers of support, and was told to call Dell. I spent 74 solid minutes, plus some odd seconds, on the phone with Dell. This is not including hold. In the end, he wanted to transfer me to a group of folks who could "definitely" solve my problem--but which would then charge me for doing it. I was reassured that, in the case of these folks not really solving my problem, they'd refund my credit card.
Instead of doing this, I convinced him to ghost my machine over the phone. The result was a factory-settings computer and no charged card. Now that I know the secret method of doing this without internet access, I can ghost the thing as often as needed.
In other news, my wrist has been giving me problems again. I've been wearing the brace for a little over a week, and it's finally starting to work. Of course, every time I try to pull on a shirt, I pop the dang thing, and have to start over with the brace. By start of term, I should be good to go, however.
So. Computer stuff, canyon stuff, wrist stuff. What else is new? The demos are done. I spent entirely too much of my life worrying over those. But they're done, and they're beautiful.
Well, that's only about half of what I had written before NAV (demonspawn program) shut off my computer without my permission. And I'm in no mood to retype it all, so there you are.
End.
posted by Rehkmira @ 22:58
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