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Jan. 3rd, 2018 06:00 pmI was happy to get a text rescheduling our DC trip to next Weds. So I slept in today and got up at three in the afternoon. And then found that our internet service was out. So was our landline phone. So was the cable TV service. Being a chicken, I read a book and played non-internet computer games until my husband got home. He's the network guy. I know nothing. But he asked me to make the call to Cox (which provides all of those service) to report a very weird outage. The service tech put in a 'ticket' for repair and then started asking me internet/wifi questions. So as I said, being a chicken, I passed the phone to my protesting husband. While he spent 20 minutes with the internet tech, everything suddenly came on. Internet Guy passed Bossman on to Cable TV Gal,who confirmed that our cable box is now fried. We will have to take it in for exchanging in order to have TV service again. While he was still on my cell phone with Cable Gal, our home phone rang - it was Cox calling to get a review of our tech service - got that caller and our CG laughing by putting the home phone on speaker (my phone already was on speaker.)
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We're home after a madcap trip to Cox's service store for a new cable box. We had 20 minutes before they were closed. It started sprinkling slush when we left their office. Drove through McD's for a quick meal (yeech) and started setting up the equipment. He did set-up, I started writing down the names of the shows we normally record. And then the set up stalled. Bossman is now on the phone in the button-pushing stage of Cox's 'tech service start up' routine. Poor Bossman.
It is now snowing. We're expecting (now) 8-10 inches of snow overnight. I know that seems laughable but road service in our area is prepared for excessive rain and wind, not for snow. I believe that our Greater Hampton Roads road services have maybe eight snowplows between the seven cities, and those are owned by the state to maintain the freeways and state roads. Inner city folks just have to make do. Which wouldn't be a problem if most of our neighbors weren't military folks from scattered hometowns across the USA and including the Caribbean & Philippians. Our young E-2 to E-5s are just sure that they are driving experts and even if they've never seen a lick of it growing up, snow is a Fun New Thing. Idiot drivers abound.
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We're home after a madcap trip to Cox's service store for a new cable box. We had 20 minutes before they were closed. It started sprinkling slush when we left their office. Drove through McD's for a quick meal (yeech) and started setting up the equipment. He did set-up, I started writing down the names of the shows we normally record. And then the set up stalled. Bossman is now on the phone in the button-pushing stage of Cox's 'tech service start up' routine. Poor Bossman.
It is now snowing. We're expecting (now) 8-10 inches of snow overnight. I know that seems laughable but road service in our area is prepared for excessive rain and wind, not for snow. I believe that our Greater Hampton Roads road services have maybe eight snowplows between the seven cities, and those are owned by the state to maintain the freeways and state roads. Inner city folks just have to make do. Which wouldn't be a problem if most of our neighbors weren't military folks from scattered hometowns across the USA and including the Caribbean & Philippians. Our young E-2 to E-5s are just sure that they are driving experts and even if they've never seen a lick of it growing up, snow is a Fun New Thing. Idiot drivers abound.
