Had a blisteringly stupid and frustrating day. But I got home to a confirmation message on the answering machine about the DSL, so cheered up. Plugged in router to its permanent home – roommate’s PC. Ran configuring site and …
would not browse the internet. Would not connect to the “configuration server” whatever that is. Called support. Escalated up the chain of geeks to a router geek. Then roommate got home while we were configging like mad, and told me to put the router under the desk when I was done, which led to me teasing him about not being able to hang it from the ceiling or set it up in the bookcase, at which point I said it would look neat on the Christmas tree next to my winking and blinking Enterprise ornament. The tech support geek snorfled and guffawed, then somehow we got in this conversation about his cats.
To make a long story short, the DSL works now, roommate has his PC back and is happily taking over the world one civilization at a time, and I’m downloading updates, watching vids, and looking for a good radio station.
Which, somehow, makes the blehness better. Yay geeks!