So my internet at home went out sometime late yesterday night. When I got home in the morning I called the Charter help line. Some chick in india walked me through unplugging my modem and waiting a minute before plugging it back in. It did not work. She then tried getting in to the modem. That failed as well. Me and india support lady decided the modem was dead. Before letting me go the india support lady tries to sell me Charter cable tv. I tried to explain to her that I had high speed internet and I did not need Charter cable. But she would have none of it and followed her script. I followed my script and hung on the support lady from india.

I then drive to the Charter home base in my area and get a new modem. I shutdown my pc. I plugin in the new modem. I hook it all up to the pc and reboot my computer. I did not hook it up to my router. When Windows boots to my surprise the internet is still no where to be found. I call Charter again and get another lady from india. We go through the same shit. Unplug and plug back in. She tries to access the modem on her end and fails. So she arranges for someone to come to my today between one and five. Hopefully it’s not someone from india.

To top off my irritation the this second support lady tries to sell me Charter tv. I again explain that I don’t need their tv I have high speed internet. This one tries to out do the first india support lady and when selling me tv fails she trys to sell me the Charter phone service. I look at the cell phone I’m talking into and ask the india support lady how is I’m communicating with her right now. At this point I’m kinda getting pissed off. I say to her I’m pretty sure we are communicating not by telegraph, morse code, or smoke signals but by phone already. I decline her offer. She of course continues to follow her script. Which at this point I give up and just hang up on the support lady from india. I hate people from india almost as much as I hate Charter’s stupid automated answering machine robot. I always end up cursing before I find the right keyword to get a real person to talk to. Agent is the magic word.

So I’m writing this at work. I hope to be back on the net shortly after the times between one and five.

So four years ago today I quit smoking. I’m still quit. I have no desire to start again. I’m lucky I quit when I did. And I’m not talking about health reasons. You can hardly smoke any where. Smokes are six bucks a pack now. Granted I’m glad that I feel better because of quitting smoking. It’s just there is no way I could have survived with this no smoking in bars we have around here. Another thing of course is the money I’ve saved (well money now wasted on other bad habits) since I quit. Gawain brought that up. I never really thought about the money I’m saving by not buying smokes. Also thank god I don’t smell like those stinky fucking smokers anymore. Jesus you smokers smell like ass. So I’m glad about that. So heres to another year of being smoke free.

Those assholes at the Sci Fi channel are changing their name.

“We couldn’t own Sci Fi; it’s a genre,” said Bonnie Hammer, the former president of Sci Fi who became the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. “But we can own Syfy.”

They should be called the Shitty B-Movie Wrestling Channel. They have wrestling for fucks sake. I hope they fail and die some horrible death taken directly out of one of those shitty b-movies they show all the time.

I’ve been meaning to do this type of post for a while now. Below you will find the top 10 local searche terms of the last thirty days.

1. SEX PHOTO
2. activation key
3. boobs
4. GF Hotels
5. gf management
6. test
7. twat
8. dungeon siege 2
9. Fuck
10. noor

What does that say about my site that these kinds of terms are being seached for? Jesus there is a lot of freaks out there. Does this look like the kind of site one will find a sex photo? Fuck off you perverts. I was dissapointed fuck was so low in the list.

Why do people use Twitter? I don’t get it myself. I have a website. I have an instant messenger client. These two things seem to be the function of Twitter. What is the need for all of these different social networking websites? Because when you really break it down this is what Twitter is. How many of these place does the world need? There is Myspace, Facebook, and the countless others I don’t want to know about. To me it all comes back to replacing websites and im clients.

When it comes to Twitter I don’t want to get it. I’m going to budge on this one. I let blog into my vocab. That is the last time I’m going to give in to this new internet lingo. I’m not going to be twittering or whatever the hell they call it. I am going to be a hypocrite though and use the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin to take advantage of what Twitter has to offer.  If it has anything to offer.

Eleven years old now. Hitting eleven is not as big as hitting the decade mark. I also think that I’m going to stop counting now. I’ll post when I hit 15 and 20.  The site birthday for the most part is just something I keep track of. I doubt anyone out there on the net cares how old a personal website/blog gets. Part of me is happy that the site has lasted as long as it has.

It’s a record of the good and bad of some of my time at the worst hotel ever. The bad mostly. With the new job I have a huge problem of having a lack of negative topics to write about. Which truth be told negativity did power my posting while I worked at the Ramada Inn. If it wasn’t the worst hotel ever I doubt my little site would have lasted as long as it has.

Happy New Year! 2009 is here. I spent a mostly quiet night at work. Had a few drunk assholes from a wedding party that stayed the night. But overall it was a pretty smooth night.

X-Mas went well. No fights between me and my brother. I got mostly clothes from the brother, his wife, and my mother. Damn them for ruining X-Mas like that. My mother did suppport my WoW habit by throwing in a WoW gift card with all the clothes.

I then went with the newbs (guy needs a new nickname)  to the Wisconsin Dells. Gawain made me remember not everyone knows about shit that is of local knowledge here in my neck of the woods. We stayed two nights at Wilderness Territory, a resort/water park. Me and the nephew got up early in the mornings and goofed off in various ways as his parents and sister still slept. We did some swimming and I soon realized how big the place was after walking back and forth from the hotel room to the water park parts of the resort. Thank god they had courtesy shuttles.

The year ahead has me turning 37. Which I’m ok with this one just because it happens to be one of the funny numbers. The other being 42. So hitting 37 is fine. Turinng 38 next year will be back to the same terrible dread of the past years.

Today the family celebrates the new year by eating lucky pasta as we have done for decades. It will be the entire family again. Hopefully it goes as good as X-Mas did.