Out of action
By Primal Sneeze ~ July 28th, 2007. Filed under: Blogs, Internet.
The mast has broken. I am drifting aimlessly. There is no chance of rescue for another week at least. Supplies are running low. I am unable to send up flares. I fear for my life.
So the inevitable happened. The ISP I have been with for nearly 3 years now got into difficulties. I mentioned this before. One partner claims he put up most of the money for the business and did all of the work. He says the other attempted to sell the business behind his back while he was on holiday. The other asserts he skipped the country taking all the company funds. I know which to believe and the upcoming court case will be very intriguing, but that doesn’t help me right now.
On Thursday, the mast I receive my signal from, developed a fault. It will not be repaired. I have been without service since then.
Knowing that this would happen eventually, a neighbour and I requested line-of-sight tests from 3 other suppliers over a month ago. One responded. Just one. Well, two if you count the one who, after being badgered for a response, told my neighbour to “fuck off. You are just a small player. I have far bigger customers who are more important to me”. Customer service in Ireland is second to none.
The sole respondent has a 15 working day lead time advertised on their website. 20 days is what their automated phone line says. I called and explained my predicament on Friday. I pleaded to be pushed up the waiting list. They agreed and will be here on Friday morning.
Until then I am relying on friends and neighbours for Internet access. Not wishing to strain relations with any of them, I am limiting my visits to work related matters. After all, I have to put beer on the counter and will soon have a new ISP to feed. I’m afraid blogging is low on the priority list and will be restricted for the next while. I doubt I will even get to update Mo Rogha tomorrow. My apologies for not replying to comments and mail. Hopefully I will be back in cyberspace this time next week.
In other news, I burned my lip yesterday testing if the soup was hot. It looks ugly and hurts like hell. Life is far from good right now.
Stub your toe on the way out and that will take care of the third disaster.
Hope you recover soon.
Grannymar – I’ve haven’t had the 3rd yet so I’m getting really, really worried now. Might wrap myself in cotton wool and stay indoors for a few days.