thank you, www.sonic.net. not 2½ days after i ordered my high-speed internet through them, i noticed my modem said that the dsl line was up. good freakin’ deal. and since i didn’t know how the hell their setup worked and what my settings needed to be on the modem, i thought i’d give ‘em a call. their tech support was very nice (and, so very thankfully, american, not indian), and helped me both set up my modem in the right mode and explain why (I like to know things). but as we were getting ready to hang up, i asked the guy to stay on the line until i had tested the speed. sorta glad i did, because it sucked. i mean, sucked worse than my work connection, which is bad to say the least. and when i say bad.... imagine ¼ the speed of dial-up, and you’re getting warm.

so tech support tries to run a few tests, and they come up with nothin’ on their end. look, guys, i run a mac, and it was fine last week. trust me, it’s you. or you didn’t set up the modem correctly. really. mac. good. long story short, they said that since technically my service isn’t supposed to be on until the 20th, they can’t do anything for me until then. they said something about it’s probably just the line is fresh and needs time to be “trained.” ok, fine, i’ll let the line get “trained,” but as of the 20th, expect a phone call if my speeds are less than they were a week ago.

because, um, dial-up stinks. really really badly. porn is so slow right now, it’s almost not even worth it. almost. thankfully, the connection has gotten a little better through the nights, now up to a speedy 233kbps, which is roughly 4x dial-up speed. i’m hoping for speeds faster than a speeding tortoise by tomorrow. wish me luck.



proof that god is real, and hates me
so i’m a recovering 49er fan... after following them for the better part of a decade near the top, and then falling suddenly to the bottom like marlon brando chasing a bon-bon over a cliff, i found myself waving farewell with clean conscience. and there they sat, enjoying the view from the bottom for so long that i thought maybe it was all a dream...

and then with the football pool... well, victory is king, and former fan or not – no point betting on a lame horse. next thing i know, san fran looks respectable against st. louis. oh hell no! this just can’t happen! i mean, they’re really trying to get me to bet on a lame horse now, and i’m trying to win it, dammit! and god is trying to cloud my judgement. no! no highlights of the 49ers unless they’re getting their asses kicked, dang it!

so my picks for the week? mediocre. but luckily, almost everyone on the pool had similar picks, so we’ll all sink or swim together, mostly. but i did just get through watching the redskins suck madly against the cowboys, who sucked slightly less. talk about porn – had the sucking gotten any worse, i would have had to cover my own eyes. well, next week i may give the cowboys more credit. definitely not the redskins anymore, though.



why the recent emphasis on porn?
no reason, really. because you’re blushing. that’s about it. no, really. i’m not an addict, i just play one on the internet.



bowling tomorrow; update to follow
so tomorrow me and some guys from work and maybe a few guys that used to work there are going to get together for dinner and a night of bowling. at which i royally suck. like, you know how mike tyson ruled the boxing ring? yeah, i’m the antithesis to that idea. my bowling score is like something you’d see in forrest gump. and by that i don’t mean an idiot savant, but rather that on a good day, my bowling score could eclipse the local winter high on a cold day in wisconsin.

gotta go; family guy is almost on, and i love my random comedy about dysfunction in america. feels like home ;-)

peace out.

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