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Bombastic

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

A little backstory-
For the past few weeks we have been having some major Internet and Phone issues. Our connection will just randomly drop and then it will be off for an unknown amount of time before it will just randomly come back on again. This can take minutes or hours. There are days where we do NOT have service more time than we do have service. They have sent 4 different Tech guys out here, and every time they are able to make it start working, pat themselves on the back, and then they will leave and it will go out again. I am about thisclose to switching providers all together. Since Ian and I both do a lot of work on our computers, and I have to have a landline as part of my daycare license, having connection is a big deal. Also, I know you guys eagerly await me to post these blogs, so I would hate to keep you waiting!

I woke up this morning with the Internet and Phone out again. I called Bombast (not their real name) and told them the story for the 10th time. They sent a technician out immediately, who was very nice and apologetic that I was still having so many problems. He looked around a while, both inside and outside our house, and then came back in and asked me if we had any lightening lately. I said that we had a couple months ago and asked him why. He then told me that it looked like our cable box had gotten hit by lightening. I just stared at him for a moment, pondering this revelation. Now, I was going to make a comment about how this seemed highly unlikely, that lightening would of struck our house and we would not of been aware of it. However, about 10 minutes before that I had told him that I was pretty sure it was a ghost causing all the problems, so I was pretty sure my credibility was shot at that point. So I played a long with the lightening theory, he got to work outside replacing all these scorched pieces of cable from our cable box (they were scorched from the lightening). After a while he got it working, everyone was happy, and I was seriously starting to wonder if maybe our house really did get struck by lightening and I was just asleep or watching T.V. or something.

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