Whew…what a day. We had three<\/u> separate thunderstorms pop up and beeline straight for Pepperell. Two grazed us–or at least, the part of town that I live in, because these were tightly contained storms. But one spent forty minutes going directly overhead, and it was a doozy. Numerous close lightning strikes, cracks of thunder, deluging rain, wind, cats hiding in the crawl space…there was even some hail! I was reveling in every second of it. *g* The atmosphere must have been very unstable today, because I couldn’t believe how fast these little terrors were blooming on the radar. All three completely distinct individual storms blew by within six hours!<\/p>\n
My DSL connection was back in service last night by the time I finished a very late workout (I put off getting to it because I was too busy sulking) at 12:30 a.m. Today, I was catching up with e-mail and various online business, and I had a number of phone calls. Around dinner time, I got a call from a telemarketer.<\/p>\n
From Verizon.<\/p>\n
Did I know that I can get a special deal on Verizon’s high speed Internet service, only yaddayadda per month if I…<\/p>\n
…and that’s as far as she got. I’m afraid the poor little cherub heard all about how Verizon high speed Internet left me hanging out to dry with two conference calls yesterday. I mean, I know it’s not her fault, and I wasn’t really rude or anything, but, gods! I’ve gotten more calls from Verizon, plus all the direct mails, and they’re pushing this FiOS optic service now, but for 12 hours yesterday my DSL connection speed was 0 bps, and I was in no mood to get a telemarketing call before I got some explanation for the outage.<\/p>\n
Which I’m sure I never will, because all my ISP will ever say is that it was Verizon’s problem, and Verizon won’t talk to me because I get Verizon DSL through a third party vendor, not directly from them. *sigh*<\/p>\n
Ah, well, it’s the New Moon tonight, fresh start and all that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Whew…what a day. We had three separate thunderstorms pop up and beeline straight for Pepperell. Two grazed us–or at least, the part of town that I live in, because these were tightly contained storms. But one spent forty minutes going … Continue reading