When it rains, it pours!

Sorry we haven't updated in a while, but the last week has been an interesting one to say the least.

Our modem has been playing some games with us for the past week and has only worked when it felt like it. After having two service calls canceled because the service was working when they were supposed to come, it went down for the third time in less than a week. Another service call placed, 20 more minutes on the phone doing useless diagnostics with the technician only to be told that they could have someone out here in three days, between 8 am and 11am.
Today is three days later and they showed up this morning just before 9:15am. One quick test of the modem, switched it for a new one and back on line by 9:45. All should be right with the world, but wait...there is more to the story.

On Friday evening just past, we had a pretty wicked thunderstorm roll through the area. Loud thunder and streaks of lightning that we think actually hit our house!

Thank all that is holy for surge protectors!

Television, computer all saved because of the protectors, telephone service not so lucky. We have been without phone service since Friday night, which really wasn't too big a deal as we were out all weekend, but last night we were home and only realised then that we had no phone. (Hard to order in chinese food without the phone).

A cell phone call to Bell to find out the problem, only to find out that there is already a workorder placed for today. Appointment time, sometime before 9pm.

So here we wait.

Hoping that this week is better than the last...

Scott