So, circa 20 minutes ago, I get home from work after a long day of.... well, I'm just glad it's over. And it's the weekend. So on the way home, I was trying to focus my energies on freeing the tension from my head. (Perhaps a little more difficult to do while driving, but still worth a shot.) Then I get home, ready to kick back, do a little surfing, check my email, etc.

At which point I discover that I am unable to connect. To anything. A peek at the DSL router confirms my worst fears. It's gone down. Again.

At this point, I can predictably plot out the series of events: Earlier this afternoon, some numb nut from US Pest chopped my line. (WHY do they always do it right at the beginning of the weekend?) I make a call to RMI. RMI opens a trouble ticket with Covad. Covad promptly (usually within hours) sends their techs to diagnose the problem. Inevitably, Covad's stuff is fine. The problem lies outside their control, so they pass it to US Pest, who will merrily wait until sometime next week (if I'm lucky, it'll be early in the week, like on Monday), and my connection will be back again.

Maybe I should just tell them to just open up a standing trouble ticket, which contains instructions to the US Pest drones along the lines of, "Don't jack with lines that already work, you dipshit morons!"

Oh well. So much for relaxation. Even if my line stays down all weekend, I still intend to rest my brain, and enjoy this. Who knows. Maybe it'll result in something more constructive being accomplished, like the great closet cleaning that happened last time. Still, this helplessness is worse than frustrating.

It's like I look forward all week to this time when I can kick back, relax, do some surfing, download updates, and maybe put up an improvement or two to my web page. Maybe some of that can still happen. Annoying as hell though. Oh well.

I guess I have nothing else to say. Bitscape concludes another rambling that probably won't see the light of public viewing for many days to come. Ho hum.