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Mar. 18th, 2004
My Video Montage Sequence Day
Mar. 18th, 2004 07:54 pmSometime, when I was lost to the world and doing Nothing But Watching Buffy, the Comcast people shut off our cable/modem for nonpayment. This is understandable, seeing as we hadn't paid them, yet irritating, because there's no way for a web writer/eBayer like me to obtain money without the Internet.
I emerged from Buffy to discover the shut-offedness today at about two o'clock, at which point I called the Comcast people and begged for them to restore our service so's I could find money and pay them for said.
[It's important -- though, actually, not that important to the story -- to note that the roomie,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ptpatricia had gone to Chicago to have her sister's baby, or, rather, to watch her sister's baby being had, and therefore was not around to help me with this predicament. Not that important to the story because a) Patricia has no more money than I have, and b) the division of labor we've worked out here seems to involve me paying for the internet/TV while Patricia makes sure we have water, gas, and power. Also, her sister's having a baby. So.]
The nice guy at Comcast assured me -- in that way people have of saying "there's no way I can override the software from here" -- that there was no way to get the internet back without paying the minimum -- not the full -- balance of $187.09. I didn't even ask what the full balance was.
( an epic tale of action and money-seeking adventure )
I emerged from Buffy to discover the shut-offedness today at about two o'clock, at which point I called the Comcast people and begged for them to restore our service so's I could find money and pay them for said.
[It's important -- though, actually, not that important to the story -- to note that the roomie,
ptpatricia had gone to Chicago to have her sister's baby, or, rather, to watch her sister's baby being had, and therefore was not around to help me with this predicament. Not that important to the story because a) Patricia has no more money than I have, and b) the division of labor we've worked out here seems to involve me paying for the internet/TV while Patricia makes sure we have water, gas, and power. Also, her sister's having a baby. So.]The nice guy at Comcast assured me -- in that way people have of saying "there's no way I can override the software from here" -- that there was no way to get the internet back without paying the minimum -- not the full -- balance of $187.09. I didn't even ask what the full balance was.
( an epic tale of action and money-seeking adventure )
