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veronica_rich ([personal profile] veronica_rich) wrote2007-05-24 12:10 pm

Gone for a while

If ever you move to Indiana, contact me first and I will tell you where NOT to live.

The cable Internet in my apartment has now gone completely out, so I have no service at home until the management company for the complex gets off its collective ass and authorizes replacement of lines. There are no DSL providers in town. There is one other phone company (which does not offer Internet). And the DirecTV people can't get a signal from behind my apartment.

So, I have no Internet service at home. [livejournal.com profile] artic_fox, if you read this, I will do my best to mod on occasion from work, but frankly, you might need to seek another U.S. mod who can help you out better.

I really want to cry, but I've already done that. I'll just be going home now and donning my poodle skirt and pearls, and make dinner for someone, since I'm apparently stuck in 1952 there.

[identity profile] finding-neo.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
This is total BS.
And I don't mean that Star Trek actor.
On these grounds you should be able to get out of the rental contract. Your excuse is that you have to have a stable internet connection to do work at home. You know a good lawyer, although this is not his specialty.

[identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com 2007-05-27 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I called back and had someone else come - another technician. Christie was here at the time while I was at work and she asked questions I didn't know to, and the guy went out back and climbed the pole where the cable was outside, and found it had been ruined by water and squirrels. So, he repaired it and after that, the cable and modem are working quite well again. I called Insight and left a comment with his supervisor, since I figured I'd bitched enough times that it would only be fair.