frustration

[incandescens]

My mother was suggesting earlier that I make a rude phone call to my provider (yup, still down). I tried to explain that I'd already phoned three times in the last week (and had been told each time that there was a problem, and that their engineers were working to resolve it as soon as possible) and that I doubted a single rude call from me to one poor guy stuck answering support calls was going to make any difference.

Nevertheless, I am very frustrated.

I know I have email and I can check it, thanks to the kindness of my parents, or the inappropriate usage of a browser on a work computer. I can look at my lj, and write it, and check out my friends' blogs or ljs -- well, those admittedly mostly at home, as work's nannyware is easily offended and blanks the screen -- but, but, but, I'm working on a limited time frame, or not supposed to be there at all, and I can't AIM or telnet-chat or anything. Dammit.

Still. On a more cheerful note, I was shopping to fill a box for the Christmas Child appeal earlier today. (Fill shoebox with small gifts, add same to big pile of same which is then sent off to kids elsecountry.) I ran across two scarves in a charity shop where I was buying Christmas cards. One was thick and practical and plain blue. One was leopardprint and fake fur and not half as warm, but if I had been a 12-year-old, I know quite definitely which I'd have gone for. So I got them both. The girl who gets it can decide which to wear -- or put them both on.

Comments

[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

I love the two choices, perfect for a modern-girl-in-winter-wear, all practical and warm while outside, and then, like Super-woman sans the phonebooth,, able shed the outer layer for the stunningly fashionable. (That just leaves us with the search for the perfect hat that does not muss the hair...)

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Have you considered asking them to prorate your bill for the time that your connection has been down? At least you won't be paying for a service that you're not receiving. Whenever I have a fluky connection, my request for prorating always seems to be followed with a rapid resolution to the problem. Coincidence of course ^_^;;