UPDATE:

Boy, forget this title! A virtual army of Comcast technicians descended on my building today. I don’t quite know the full details of what went wrong, but the cable-box apparently had to be completely unplugged and then replugged, and the direct line running into the building had to be replaced. They’re outside now burying the new one as I write this. Apparently, the entire building has had no cable service since early yesterday morning (like, 6am-ish), but I was the first person to call in — at 10:45pm Saturday! — so while other neighbors bitched and griped, I got fixed first.

The best part? The techs who walked into my apartment, saw Hogwarts, and gasped and then offered me many compliments. Yay, Comcast!

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I had sporadic internet access Friday night (my early morning post was written Friday night and time-delay posted right before the internet went back out), which was frustrating (I’m so addicted to the internet). Saturday, my entire Comcast service went to shit — no internet, no television. I saw a Comcast pickup truck in the parking lot of my building, and the cable box on the side of the building had been opened and wires were everywhere, so I figured, “It’ll be working when I get home from work tonight.” I went to work at 11am, and got off at 10:30pm. Got home, nothing working. Something else I noticed? The Comcast pickup was still in the parking lot — he wasn’t here doing service, he lives here.

Whoop.

Went around to the side of the building, sure enough, the cable box was still open and wires were everywhere. Some new neighbor trying to get free internet? I’m betting on it.

Anyway, Comcast is supposed to be making an early morning visit tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll have service restored, because I am indeed an internet addict, and being unable to check my e-mail multiple times a day is very frustrating.

Big thanks to my friend American Geisha, who when I called at 11pm, said “Sure!” when I asked, “Geisha, I’ve got no internet and I need a fix. Can I come over and use your computer?” She’s a good friend.

If I don’t have internet access again tomorrow or Monday, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Usually when I see someone act stupidly on Shawan Road, they’re in the left-lane southbound exit for I-83, and they swerve across three lanes of traffic to get to the right-lane southbound exit on I-83. Yep, Shawan is one of those oddities: it has two exits for southbound I-83 (and one for northbound, of course).

So, yesterday afternoon, I’m enroute out to Falls Road, when someone idiot in the left-hand lane (which becomes an exit to southbound 83) swerves across traffic to get to the right-hand exit for the same direction on I-83. I think people usually do this because they don’t realize they’re already in the turn lane, but this was the first time someone swerves out of one exit lane into another, then swerves BACK into the lane they’d previously been in.

Wow. I wish I drove something bigger so I didn’t have to break and swerve to get away from them. Fucker.