Internetitus
Had a bout of internetitus tonight. Our dial up internet wouldn't connect. Error 718, it said. Very serious. Second cousin twice removed from the bird flu.
So I found a phone in the house, somewhere. Never use the thing, so it was a little dusty. But anyway, after rifling through several drawers and cabinets, I also located another dusty item, a phone book. (I was gonna look up the number for Iowa Telecom on the internet, but DOH!!, the internet wouldn't connect.....) Called Iowa Telecom, went through about 1600 menus, you know, the 'if you want to hear these messages in Russian, press 1, pazhalsta' and after all that I got a recorded message saying...and I am paraphrasing a bit here...."golly but you might be experiencing a prollem with yer password and login and stuff, but after we get done the farm chores, we'll get right on it, so don't worry".
Sure enough, just after the sun went down, we were able to connect again. Apparently error 718 isn't fatal.
So I found a phone in the house, somewhere. Never use the thing, so it was a little dusty. But anyway, after rifling through several drawers and cabinets, I also located another dusty item, a phone book. (I was gonna look up the number for Iowa Telecom on the internet, but DOH!!, the internet wouldn't connect.....) Called Iowa Telecom, went through about 1600 menus, you know, the 'if you want to hear these messages in Russian, press 1, pazhalsta' and after all that I got a recorded message saying...and I am paraphrasing a bit here...."golly but you might be experiencing a prollem with yer password and login and stuff, but after we get done the farm chores, we'll get right on it, so don't worry".
Sure enough, just after the sun went down, we were able to connect again. Apparently error 718 isn't fatal.
posted by jamie at 9:09 PM
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