Just Push Another Button

Hello most humans and many others,

Missy Linda and Tio Kane have been a little annoyed the last couple of days. First, the other night, the cable and internet went off, right during the Daily Show. First Missy Linda spent a while on the phone arguing with a computer voice. Then Tio Kane spent a longer time actually speaking with a real person. It turns out that someone at Cox had entered the wrong day to discontinue services at this house because we're moving. Missy Linda kept saying, sort of to herself, that if someone pushed a button to enter a date, why can't they just push a different button to change it? Evidently, that's impossible.

Well, after about an hour, the cable and internet came back on. It seemed the problem was solved. But, oh no. That's too easy. Because of the way that the "tech support" person had to restore the cable and internet, he said that our phone might go out, but he thought he had avoided that. It seemed that everything was going to be all right. The phone stayed connected, and it seemed that was that.

Then about 5:30 on Friday afternoon, the phone does go dead. According to the "tech support" who works after hours, he couldn't override the phone order that turned off the connection. So now, it seems that poor Missy Linda and Tio Kane will be without their land line phone until Monday. I guess the poor souls will be forced to exclusively use their cell phones which, they complain, don't get good reception inside this house. Poor things. They make it sound as if they're in solitary confinement or something. Somehow I think they can get through this horrible catastrophe if they can just be brave, don't you?