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  • Day 30: And So It Ends.

    Thursday, November 30th, 2006

    Once again, I’m coming to you live from the Township Library, because there is STILL NO INTERNET CONNECTION at my house. Whatever happened to cause this outage must have been a doozy for it to take this long to fix.

    Today is my last post for NaBloPoMo 2006. I would like to thank M Kennedy, who surely couldn’t have foreseen the kind of response she would get when she suggested this back in October. Other participants have mentioned that they didn’t like having to post every day but not me-I appreciated the challenge and the opportunity to look for post material every day. I learned to write for myself, and was surprised that people still came to read, every day.

    Thank you, readers, for giving me that boost of confidence. You kept me going with your comments and never once made me feel like you wished I would just stop posting already. I signed up to post every day in December, too, through a website called Holidaillies, but I’ll only post tomorrow if my Internet connection comes back. This library that I’m using is very, very small, only one room, and I just can’t keep dragging the kids here every day. So I might miss a day or two in December before I resuming daily posts.

    And now, I must sign off. There is a Winter Storm Warning in effect, the prediction is for anywhere from one to twelve inches of snow by tomorrow. I have to take the kids to Target (yay! Kaitlyn crying in the cart!) to buy Ryan a pair of snow pants and boots. Snow pants are required at school if they want to go outside for recess on a snowy day. With the blizzard a ‘comin, I want to beat the crowds and get to Target now. So, good night, and please do keep stopping by. Once I’m able to use my own computer again, I’ll be updating Flickr and getting ready to write about Christmas Tree decorating, my Dickens Village, Christmas gifts, and Nathan’s birthday on the 21st. December should be lots of fun here at Table for Five, hope you’ll join me.

    xoxo elizabeth

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  • Day 29: The Gift of a Library Connection

    Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

    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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