#cables out

[askdamasky]

Tim: *pops balloon*

Brian: *flinches* wHy Do YoU kEeP DOING THAT?!

Tim: *takes a drag off cigarette* the cables out again.

[sunshinesight]

Comcast outage, 12:25am to 2:17am, Thursday 2 February 2017. I know, most people were asleep, and weren’t thinking: damn, I wanted to watch Seth Meyers. But I work midnights, and am basically expected to quietly entertain myself in the living room all night long. If the cable goes out - there’s no internet, and remember: I don’t have a cell phone.

Being an old person, other than being annoyed, and also finding a cable bill so that I could actually call the cable company and listen to the recorded message telling me that maybe they’d have this little problem solved by 6am, being unconnected from tv and the internet isn’t exactly a level 10 crisis. There are DVDs, oh, and my itunes library is actually on my computer, not a “cloud.” It just decided to tell me it couldn’t connect to the internet after it played every song as if it was a whiny child.

So, while I was doing boring etsy / Society6 fb promo stuff before access to the outside world was cut off (no, really, it’s after midnight on a 25˚F day in February - where was I going to go?), I did boring adult things instead. The most mundane of which was to finally clean all the packing tape residue off my collection of scissors with goo gone. I also cut apart a sheet of business cards, and finished the scoring, folding, and cutting of all the complimentary cards I printed right before my connections to the outside world went dead. And then at 2:17am the lights started flashing on the modem again, and the stuff that I pay money for came back on.

[shitredditrocks]

Matt Lange - Cables Out

"Cables Out" by Matt Lange

posted in r/EDM

[bikerchanyeol]

The cable has been out for HOURS. Since I got up this afternoon. And it's STILL off. I missed all my shows. I'm missing out on Friends as I type this. You bastids. >.< What the hell am I going to watch now?