Ugh = I have tried for a couple hours today to get my work emails to me on my home computer via citrix receiver. For some reason, citrix doesn't like my email address. I'll ask a coworker when she comes in on Wednesday to see if she can figure it out. I even tried getting VPN on my work computer and had trouble and couldn't get online. Of course tonight I have even more issues.... our internet - Century Link - is terrible. It is constantly intermittent and even though I have this blog up at the moment, my ipad can not get internet to it, and on some things, my phone can't. At first I couldn't get up on my laptop either. Would be nice to have internet that was consistent. This has always been an ongoing issue for years. Change? Can't. If we switch to Cox, they charge a deposit - and I wouldn't anyway. When my daughter had leukemia we had Cox. Then we dropped it for some reason for about 3 months, then came back to it. They told me no deposit was required. After a few months they decided that I should pay a $300 deposit. I reminded them that they said I didn't have to. They started billing. I would send it back with a note, call them, get names, and agreements to not worry about it, and made sure my bill was paid timely. Then came that fateful day when Cox turned off our home phone line. No warning. I called Cox and was told that in spite of all the notes in the system, in spite of being told we didn't have to pay a deposit because we had a 3 month break in service, they turned my phone off. The only way I could get it turned back on was to pay a $300 deposit and it could take 2-3 days to get it done. Blackmail, you think? I was so angry because my daughter was in the hospital with leukemia and I needed a phone in case the hospital had to contact us, and they were only worried about blackmailing me for $300 deposit. I hung up and called Century Link. Yes, we had to change our telephone number that we had had several years, but they had us set up and ready for service within 20 minutes or so. Without a deposit. We have been with Century Link ever since. I still don't like their service, but they did step up to the plate when I needed them. I would never recommend Cox.
Whew. It's been awhile since I thought about all that stuff. The internet service is really crappy tonight and stirred it all up. That, and I started typing in here - where it is pretty much safe. What I say here... well, I don't know if it stays here or not, but I like using this to voice my thoughts.
I can't believe it is only 7:15PM and I'm already yawning and wanting to go to bed. Must be this weather. It's cool in the evenings and I sleep well when it's cool. But I have to be warm. Like, a few covers warm. But when my core temperature starts getting hot, those covers are thrown off! Gotta keep the legs cool or can't sleep.
Pray tell, how can my internet service be one dot..... when I am twenty feet away from our modem? sigh. Guess I'll get off and try to work on some things.
I wish my son would start writing in his blog again... I enjoy reading his stories. That's it - he can write his short stories! hint hint
Blessings!
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