Past out

Today at work Jonny totally passed out listening to the parsha. He worked on a project and then got sleepy. So he slept, woke, worked, slept some more. It was a passed out moment for sure. Now at 3PM he is drinking his first cup of coffee. A week ago AT&T came out to install a service for Angelina. Prior to that on Monday they were supposed to install a dish. But no dish for you. There are too many trees in tree town. In tree town the trees roots are choking Jonny's sewer line. Today Angelina is getting that repaired to the tune of $10,000. So she called and yelled at them something to the effect of "I have three kids and no TV". So they came out and pulled out the DSL line and put in a cable with DVR and internet wireless. They put a router in the basement. This girl was really clueless. She changed her mind 2 or 3 times about how to string the wires. She ended up leaving around midnight. That was when Jonny decided he needed to take last Wednesday off from work too. She even used Angelina's dryer since her clothes got wet. And Angelina was screaming that Alberta ran the dryer and left her clothes in there. She claimed that the desktop computer had no network adapter. It has a hole for an ethernet. The network adapter is on the main board. The main board is made by some ridiculously impossible to track down company like mainboard, pc 100, pcillian, pcnet or sis. SIS stands for systamatic information systems company or something equally ridiculous. So Jonny never found the right driver or the right anything. The network adapter says code 10 this device is installed but will never work. Maybe the printer is in conflict with it. That is doubtful since the printer is on the parallel port. Would an external modem work? Hmm Jonny can't find it or some other miscellaneous USB wires. So there was a USB port behind the router. Jonny connected it directly to the PC and the PC complained it needed a driver. The cable girl hooked up the wireless to the laptop but didn't give them the password. It connects though. In the meantime Jonny was able to get free wireless from somewhere else in the neighborhood, but this is legitimate. The last time he did that was some SSID like 8 double D, this one was containing a more meaningful name like Motorolla. Hmmm. In the meantime, Jonny took the HP Deskjet series 1300 out of storage. It came with the laptop as a promotion. It takes color too. Well it works like nothing, it doesn't work well at all. Sometimes it prints and sometimes it doesn't. And it has all the drivers. So Jonny copied a file from the notebook Compaq Presario 500 series to a USB and copied it to the desktop of no brand name. He went to Circuit City last night and got a USB enabled wireless connector. Then he got a piece of Kingston memory for the Compaq. Out the door he went $83 lighter off his VISA. Angelina returned it all today. He came home and finished off his Bicardi rum on ice and discovered with a take your pick: scissors, knife or file could make the memory stick. (Pun). So he broke the clips on the Compaq. After extensive testing he concluded, Angelina or Jonny will take this back to the store. After liqour had been imbimbed he went to the router. The signal strength on the SSID 2187WIRE or 2WIRE187 was 100%. Of course it was about 10 inches away from the router. Jonny didn't know the password. Ahh he just finished his coffee. The desktop won't shut down either. What a fricking pain in the neck. So he finally got Angelina to admit she didn't know the WPA network id, or in layman terms the password to go with the wireless. Duhh. So she thought it was her favorite restaurant. Hmmm probably not. So finally at 10:30 at night Jonny talks to a live person on AT&T. The guy says the password is on the back of the router. Just like the one that was 1/4 of the size that Angelina mailed back to the company when they no longer were letting her use DSL because the dish package and long distance and phone that she set up for 1.5 hours on the phone three weeks ago was null and void. Because of the trees that beautiful Monday morning, cold and almost spring in Michigan last week, when Jesse refused to go to school. That was reason #2 for Jonny taking last Wednesday off in addition to Friday for the closing, Monday and Tuesday. Not getting the keys until 3.25 hours after the closing was the #1 reason back on Friday March 28. The capper was the AT&T lady not leaving until after midnight. The neighbors think Jonny is absolutely nuts. His maintenance men billed him for about 50 hours in a week's time since they moved in. They won't be back until after tomorrow when Jonny and Angelina close on a home equity loan. Another $10,000 coming. Fortunately the money for the sewer guys is already available. This is because it was rolled into the home sale loan. Unfortunately the next $10,000 coming tomorrow is coming at 13% instead of a nice 6%. But Angelina is gonna refinance and pay that off in about 6 months anyway. The AT&T help desk people were absolutely clueless. The funnest part for Jonny was swearing at the automated voice prompter. If you have a problem say problem. Jonny said "Yes I got ***** problem with my ***** internet connection". As you can guess simply saying problem was all that was needed. Angelina thought that was quite cute. The password and network id's on the back of the router didn't work. Amazingly enough the help desk guy said prior to saying thank you for using AT&T to try 2wire dot com. He "had no idea if that would work". But it did. Jonny used the lap top to download a driver for the USB hub connector. He installed the driver on the desktop with no name and plugged it in via USB in the back where there are four ports. No password required. In the LAN just like that. Next he downloaded Angelina's emails 288 of them to Mozilla Thunderbird. He browsed the internet trying to agonize over the Compaq notebook memory. He resigned to shower and bed before 2AM. Jonny was told by Angelina he did sleep from 1:15 to 7:00 so it wasn't really that bad. Today he went to get his last visit for the flu study. He also met with Rob and Rob said he is doing a fine job. Rob gave him an iron gate 4GB USB to use while in the department. He also said come back in May or June for your raise that will take effect in September. So Jonny will get a COLA around 12 months after starting just like everyone else, provided of course management approves. Thanks for listening to this story.