It seems that Ted Williams got a job, and a house.
That should just make your day. And it looks more and more legitimate, which is, of course, even better.
The cable company came out this afternoon. Each of the last three days we’ve lost our connection to the Internet. We were forced to watch regular television and interact with one another. Well. We called Charter, told the man we’d gone through the resets and we were thinking about the new cable company that is coming to town. He promised to send a guy out today, and so the man came out today.
He’s been here before. We’ve had, I think four visits from Charter — add that to the list. He’s a nice guy, very personable, quick to laugh and tell stories. He remembered being here before, which is something. Told him the problem, tried the car metaphor. Of course it works now. But when it doesn’t work it slows down. And then stops. And then it fights for forever to turnover and connect us again to the ones and zeros.
He runs two tests on his television prop tricorder and pronounces the numbers to be good. So, tomorrow, he’ll call another technician out to investigate the lines coming from the central matrix node. Apparently that’s a different pay grade. He will let us know what he learns.
It occurs to me that this must be a great job. “How are ya? Where’s the modem? What is it doing? Let me run a test. All pluses! Let me make a call. OK, someone else is going to come out tomorrow. Take care, now.”
Funniest thing I’ve seen today? We came in from dinner at Cheeburger and I was, for some reason, singing Single Ladies. So I played it on YouTube. And then I found this:
Jeff Tweedy may just be a little too smart for all of this.
Back to the studying.
