Stone Age

Crap! Our broadband connection at home is busted for more than a week already. The ISP says there’s a problem in the whole area. We’ve been calling them everyday to complain but they keep giving the same answer--- we’re working on it. Bullshit. I have a friend who worked as on of the agents answering complaints from customers. He says they follow some script, and they say anything in order to make the customers put down their phones. And when they say calls are being recorded? Chances are they’re not. Some calls are indeed recorded and monitored, but very few of them are. And they are recorded at random. Typical of a company to cut corners here and there. No wonder I still can’t connect to the internet at home! The agents on working for our piece of shit ISP keep on feeding us lies!

I tried to connect to the net using a dial up server. After waiting for each page to load for what seemed like an eternity, I gave up. All that waiting just made my blood boil more! I wonder how I ever managed to surf the net all those years in the past with a dial up connection! Seriously, it’s crazy to even think that I used to wait 20-30 minutes to download one song, and up to 3 days downloading the video. I can’t even load my profile on Facebook, I had to check several times if my browser crashed down or something! Nothing seemed to be happening! Maybe in the past slow connections would do since pages weren’t so multimedia heavy before, but it seems like an exercise in futility using a dial up server these days. Add the fact that i experienced numerous disconnections and busy tones--- trying to surf the net this way can really test one's patience! I feel as if I’m transported back to the stone age!

I’m actually surfing the net now at a friends house. I had to travel for several miles just to get an internet connection. LOL. Some may think I’m wasting gas, but I say it’s all worth it . Surfing the net everyday became a habit for me. It has been a part of my daily routine, together with eating, sleeping, taking a bath… I seem a bit disconnected without my daily internet fix.