decidedlyodd

Upon getting home last night from a long day on campus, I discovered that our high speed internet was out. Figuring that happens sometimes, I decided I’d instead waste time by watching television. Unfortunately, the cable was dead too, which meant something was seriously wrong being that our internet and television come through the same cable. After calling Time Warner, I was told they’d send somebody out tomorrow between 8am and 5pm. Now, usually I can work from home so it wouldn’t be a big deal, BUT I need internet connectivity to get certain things done. Arg.

I got some work that didn’t require the net (my Math 221 assignments) and went to bed around 10pm. I was tired and there was no relaxing activities to do besides sleep. I figured I might get up at 6am and hit the pool, come back and wait around until the cable got fixed. So, my alarm goes off at 6am, but I was already awake because the rain was very loud. I get kind of sick in that warm, tired, slightly naseous and dry mouth sort of a way. Maybe it was the oral typhoid vaccine I took yesterday (I finally got around to going to the travel clinic for my trip to Nicaragua) or maybe that weird GI bug I had the day before. Either way, I really didn’t feel like getting up and doing vigorous exercise. Hence, I went back to sleep for another approx. 3 hours.

I then got up, ate breakfast and got more work done (what else was there to do?). At 12:30, I decided I needed to get my fix as well as get in some face time with friends for lunch. I drove to campus, parked at a meter and had lunch with the gang over at Sakura Express. The food was ok, but at least it wasn’t too expensive ($5.10 for a dish including tax). Of course, I also had to hit up Sitterson to see if the letter from Jim for my software product requirement had arrived and to check my email. Nothing too interesting, except that the Math 221 professsor wanted me to meet with him today to show him the final results of my last assignment. Unfortunately, he didn’t mention that he wanted a follow up meeting when we met on Wednesday. Plus, I’m not even done with that assignment yet (still catching up gradually).

After all that, I drove back home, hoping that the cable guy hadn’t shown up and drove off because I wasn’t home. As I pull into my driveway, what do I see? The cable guy’s truck. He had apparently been looking around outside and already figured out what was wrong. I went inside and he went to work fixing the problem. Apparently, somebody had disconnected our cable! I suspect it was the neighbors in the other half of the duplex or somebody on their behalf. The thing is that they don’t even have cable since they satellite. So it pisses me off to think that somebody is just unplugging cables willy-nilly assuming nobody in the other half of the unit needs them. I think I might have to let the landlord know that we’re having problems with them again. My memory isn’t what it used to be, but I want to say something weird like this happened a few months ago too. The important thing is that we’re hooked back up again.