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I Hate Comcast! Pt 2

It has been close to a week and a half and I still don’t have cable. I hate to keep whining about the same thing over and over again (who am I kidding? I’m notorious for doing that), but I am extremely pissed off. This is just unacceptable to not have cable TV for this long. I have called them everyday and keep getting the run around.

After supposedly, allegedly it was to be fixed for the umpteenth time today, I lost it. I called demanding to speak to a manager over the ridiculousness of the situation and demanded retribution. After being transferred and put on hold, I finally spoke to someone who sounded halfway competent.
(Seriously, is it too much to ask for decent customer service this day? Another rant for another time because truly there is no such thing as customer service in the service industry anymore.)
Again, allegedly, supposedly someone is going to come out and check everything from inside my apartment to the outside line, and of course I have to waste more of my time by taking a half-day to wait for them. So fucking annoyed.

After having a long day at work, all I wanted to do was sit on my couch and spend my evening watching mindless TV. I just wanted to unwind and let go of the stresses of my day by losing myself in nonsense television. Call it escapism at its best. There are just days when I want to come home and see what messes Bart and Homer get into, play a few rounds of Jeopardy with Alex, catch up on some political news with Jon and Stephen, hang out with the gang at Central Perk, talk Carrie out of cheating on Adian with Big, and cry a few tears with Meredith over her awful hair and rejoice when Addison and Alex finally end up in bed (which I don’t think is going to happen anymore because of her dumb spin-off). There are days when going to the gym or reading a book just doesn’t cut it. I just want to get lost in nothing and forget about my forever-growing to-do-list at work and all the other emotional crap that I choose to suppress; spend a nice evening with the TV and me where I can ignore my life for a few hours. I don't think its too much to ask for.

If Comcast could just get their fucking act together and fix this shit then all would be well.

Still no TV

I still don't have cable! I've almost come to accept the fact that I will never have cable again. At this point, I don't even care that I don't have cable. But I will continue to bitch and moan about the fact that I don't have cable. How the cable gods mock me? They are enjoying my misery. Not only do I not have cable, but I also have a headache and the sniffles. Can't quite be sure if its allergies or a cold. Either way, I feel like poo. Would like to call out tomorrow from work, but then realized that I have no tv, so the whole sitting on the couch and watching tv while you're sick scenario is gone, might as well just go to work. At least there I have stuff I can do.

Speaking of work, still have not done the certifications that I mentioned, perhaps will look at it tonight. I have no motivation to pick that shit up. I have no motivation for anything right now. I think having no tv has sucked the life out of me. I have lost the will for anything. I was going to make a slideshow of some of my favorite pics, but can't even be bothered to do that. I had an interesting idea for a post, but lack the will to carry on with it. Instead, I am whiny and am making you suffer for it. I think I may just go to bed and call it a day. I don't care that its 7pm and its still light outside. Le sigh.

I Hate Comcast!

I haven’t had cable TV in almost a week. It started acting up last week and I put in a call for them to fix it and now I’ve lost all channels. Something to do with the outside line needing to be replaced and could take up to 7 business days!!! Are you fucking kidding me? Its already been a week since it first started going all wonky and now you’re telling me it’s going to take another fucking 7 days to fix this shit. Unacceptable! I honestly believe Comcast is the devil and this further proves my theory. I swear to God, if they don’t fix this before the weekend I am going to go coco-bananas.

Instead of doing something productive like clean my kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom or reading up on some course packets for certifications for work

(I need to take 6 certifications and each course packet is over 60 pages long! I have to pass them all by April 10. I have not yet started even looking at this and have no idea how I’m going to pass. I still have no clue what my company even does; let alone how to use the damn product. Who cares about the history of BI -that’s Business Intelligence for those who aren’t in the know, and I’m clearly one of them. Ugh)

I decide to procrastinate in any way possible:

• I went to the gym to make up for last night’s disastrous attempt of running for 10 minutes, then walking for 5 minutes until I decided to throw in the towel and binge on ice cream at home. I actually should’ve stayed at the gym longer to watch some TV, but I think its frowned upon if you just stand on the treadmill watching the built-in screen on the machine.
• Ate my leftovers from lunch and an entire bag of potato chips. There goes the workout.
• Played with Mr. Weasley and brushed his hair. He could do for a nail trim, but I’m going to save that for tomorrow night.
• Myspaced for an hour looking up random people I went to high school with. I found a guy I used to date, and boy does he look rough. The years have not been nice. If I were to see him on the street now, I don’t think I would recognize him.
• Obsessively plucked my eyebrows. I’m starting to think I’m not doing a good job shaping them because every time I go get a mani or pedi, the lady always asks if I want my eyebrows waxed, and I always say no, but she keeps asking me “Are you sure?”
• Caught up on radio gossip by reading DCRTV. Even though I’m no longer in the industry, I still like to be in the know.
• Decided that I really do need to clean the apartment and made a note to self to clean the place.
• Added the frog tank to the list.
• Wished I could pick up the current book I’m reading, The Thirteenth Tale, but I’m at a part where there could be a ghost story and am deathly afraid of ghosts and knew that if I started to read it, would not be able to sleep at all tonight and do not want to break the streak of sleeping peacefully throughout the night.
• Talked myself out of having a bowl of ice cream and settled on three strawberries.

I’m in a desperate state of mind. I seriously don’t watch that much TV anymore, but I just like to have it on the background when I’m doing other things. I like the noise it creates; it makes it feel like other people are around and hides the fact that I’m sitting here all alone. It also cuts out the noise from the other apartments and I don’t have to hear my Korean neighbors singing karaoke (actually, I never heard them do that, but Best Friend Ever has). If I don’t have TV back by Saturday, you better believe heads will roll.