Interweb Outage

It seems like all I’m writing about lately is problems with Utility Services. 

Our internet has been out since Thursday. We hosted Thirsty Thursday this week and we were looking forward to watching Thursday Night Football featuring the Seattle Seahawks vs. the L.A. Ramses.The game was to be on Prime, available only on the interweb.

So when we lost our connection to the World Wide Web, we were devastated to learn we would not be able to see the game.

Fortunately, my Tech-savvy neighbor Derrick was able to get the game on his phone. So we got to watch it on a 3” x 6” screen. Eighteen of us crowded around this tiny screen.

It was a pretty tight game all the way through, even though the Seahawks were down by two touchdowns midway through the game. The Seahawks won 38 - 37, but it went into overtime and down to the last minutes.

Earlier in the afternoon, I received an automated message from Quantum, my interweb provider who said they were working on the problem and would have it repaired by 5AM on Friday. So, we knew in advance that we couldn’t see the game on our TV.

I got up well past 5 on Friday morning and still had no interweb. I got a couple other automated calls during the day that said they were working on the problem and would have it repaired by 9:02AM on Saturday.

As I was going to bed last night, I happened to look at the modem and noticed a solid green light, indicating interweb service.

It was back. I checked my email prior to going to bed and erased most of the 127 emails I had.

Among them were emails from Quantum telling me my interweb service was out and they were working on the problem. 

The fact that they were sending me emails makes me think they don’t really understand how the internet works.