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Steven M Scotten

Waiting for DSL

Stupid thing number one: my broadband provider couldn’t even put in an order without an installed phone line. I had my new number and the phone set up over a month in advance but until the line is actually active there’s nothing anyone can do, apparently. Stupid thing

Hero

So as it turns out, both my desk and my shower are shaped like Superman’s “cut diamond” shaped symbol.

I may be out of touch for a lot longer

So now that SBC admits that I have a phone line (a week after dial tone) they will graciously allow the DSL installation as early as the TWENTIETH. I don’t remember broadband installation taking this long since the days of ISDN, and that required a team of specialists to

Completely out of touch

Best laid plans of mice and men, I guess. I had it all worked out, or so I thought. The problem: I’m moving and I have a mailserver at home. How to move it with minimum downtime? Well, The nice folks at SBC wouldn’t let me keep my

Anyone wanna live with me?

My housemate is throwing a temper tantrum and threatening not to move in. Swell. This is at the very eleventh hour, and puts Arpine and I in a pretty awkward position. He doesn’t like that Arpine didn’t tell him to just take over the entire apartment with his

It's my place!

I have keys and I have a phone. Now all I have to do is get ME and MY STUFF over across town and I’ll be all set. Why haven’t my belongings just magically jumped into their boxes? Hey, get with it! I don’t want to be

Happy Independence Day

Three blocks away in one direction a neighbor’s house is burning down. Three blocks away in the other direction some other neighbors are shooting off huge fireworks. Hundreds of feet into the air. The sorts of fireworks that might make a July 4th exhibit in a really small town.