Exactly how dedicated am I to NaBloPoMo? I spent three hours today trying to figure out why I couldn’t get an Internet connection, calling Comcast twice, and spending two of those hours on the phone long distance with my husband as we ran through the turning off and turning back on of our cable modem, both routers, and eight different network connections. Our server rack is in the basement, which meant going down the stairs and climbing up a stepstool to access the equipment, then down off the stepstool and back up the stairs to the living room to see if the connection was working.

Finally I called Comcast again and told yet another Support Tech that I had done everything I could think of. He suggested maybe it was a billing issue (um, NO) and connected me to billing. She said no, it wasn’t because I was late on my payment or anything (TOLD YA), so I pulled out my wife-of-a-Support-Tech card and asked to please speak to the Second Level Resolution person. After fifteen minutes on hold, guess what I found out?

Comcast had a huge Internet outage, affecting SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND customers in the Lansing and Grand Rapids area. D’Oh!  So here I am at the Township Library, using my 30 free minutes of Internet access to write this post, because I’ll be DAMNED if I’m going to lose NaBloPoMo on the second-to-last day because of an outage.

I have to go now, even though I had a great post planned about Christmas gifts. I really appreciate all the great responses I got to my posts about Christmas music and movies, and I’m planning to rent National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation just as soon as I can. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have my connection back, and I can write my NaBloPoMo wrap-up. Maybe I’d better write it out longhand on a legal pad just in case I don’t have a connection tomorrow and have to come back to the library.

There’s no internet at my house. THERE’S NO INTERNET AT MY HOUSE. Somebody hold me.

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