Kiss N Tell Confessions
My "walk on the wild side" is over, mostly. I am slowly putting my life back together after two years of sex addiction and sexual abuse. I will still make mistakes. I will probably have sex with people I shouldn't in places I shouldn't. My story is one of pain, and courage, and the constant fight for survival and for happiness. You didn't think you had to fight for happiness, but sometimes, you do.
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Vacation Saga pt. 1
posted Mon, 06/15/09
I lost my Internet from Tuesday 6/9 to this morning 6/15. I did a lot of writing. To keep the reading tolerable, I'll break the posts up a little.
Tuesday 6/9
There was a thunderstorm, and I lost my Internet connection. It's on cable, and my TV flickered, but the TV didn't go out. I would have rather the TV had gone instead of my Internet! There is nothing on TV, and lately it seems like my whole world is wrapped around the Internet. I could look up... I could read... I could play... No, everything is on the Internet.
I thought I'd give it a half an hour before I called the cable company, to let them get it in order before I inquired. I fell asleep watching Time on the Science channel with Michio Kaku. I woke up an hour later, thinking after my power nap, I could really do some WoWing. The little "send" button was still blinking on my modem and the "online" light was still off.
When I called the cable company, I got the message that they were having a "higher than normal call volume." I thought, "good, maybe they know there's an outage!" So I waited for 20 minutes to get a rep who knew nothing and said they could send a service tech out on Thursday. I was shocked. The thought of being on vacation and not having Internet service until Thursday was unacceptable to me. Then he wanted me to buy some sort of service protection in case the call was chargeable to me. No fucking way it, better not be! But I said, "I want to decline that at this time." I was livid.
So many things went through my head. I decided to bide my time. I made the promise to myself that I would give it the night, and if I didn't have Internet when I got up in the morning, I would call them and ask them to escalate it. We had a storm, and it seems highly likely that this outage is not just me, that it is regional, and they should take it seriously. That he didn't know if it was an outage is unacceptable.
Now, I have to step back and try not to look at it from the perspective of my team. I work for a financial institution doing tech support and application support for a website. Our team is very small. When there is an outage or an issue, we know it, take it seriously, and escalate it immediately. We get internal emails of updates on a regular basis. We communicate to clients any updates we know at the time, and call them back when new information arises. We truly have the knowledge, the tools, and the empowerment to make a difference. I have been in customer service positions where I didn't have any of that, and it is likely that the rep I called didn't have back up either.
My Boys
Bandit is 7 pounds and CK is 4 pounds. It's been a long time since I had "babies." Bandit is teething. Saturday I noticed that he had double fangs, where the adult teeth are pushing out the baby teeth. I noticed blood on his white chin. He doesn't show discomfort, not that I have noticed, but I feel empathy for him because I remember the strange pain of losing teeth.
So I played with my kittens to relieve some stress. Nothing can make me smile quite like my boys. When I was playing with him with the cat wand, I heard what sounded like his tooth catch on the fabric. I stopped and looked at his mouth. One of his baby teeth was gone and his mouth was a little bloody. I don't know if he lost it just at that moment or not, but it seems likely. He didn't let it stop him, though. He still wanted to play. If the Internet remains out, the boys will get a bit more exercise.
Good side effect: they are both sleeping contentedly as I write this. I tired them out, for now.
World of Warcraft ramblings:
I have a week off from work and not much to do. I decided to go through the achievements in World of Warcraft and complete the ones I could. I found all the critters I had to /love, and all the pests I had to kill. I killed 15 turkeys in 3 minutes. I coerced 10 critters to be my minions in 3 minutes with the Critter Bites. I fished in all the fish schools. I did all the daily cooking and fishing quests. I got to Revered with the Oracles and bought my first Mysterious Egg. I even accidentally got two Wintergrasp achievements.
I was flying over Wintergrasp, a Player vs. Player raid area, when the Alliance won. I wasn't part of the raid, but because I was in the zone, I got an achievement for the win, and because they won in under ?? minutes, I got that achievement too! I even got a Wintergrasp Mark of Honor! I was thrilled, because I probably won't ever play Wintergrasp, as it doesn't interest me. I got something for free.
The Critter Gitter achievement was fun. I thought about where I had seen the most critters at once in one area, the Cat Lady's house in Elwyn Forest, and I went there. I also liked the thought of having cats as minions. So went there, threw Critter Bites at all the cats I could see as well as a couple of cows, and completed the achievement. Then, just for fun, I ran them through Goldshire and attempted to take them into Stormwind. I got two whispers asking me about it, which I thought was really amusing. How did I have so many pets out? Was it something from one of the card sets? When I told them what it was, and linked the Critter Bites, the one said he would have to level his cooking, and the other asked me if I had any he could have. I had 5 left in my inventory, so would have let him have them, but you have to be level 70 to use them. I didn't check his level, but I assumed that if he was hanging around Goldshire he probably wasn't level 70. And he didn't argue. You can buy them cheap on the Auction House. It isn't useful, it only lasts 3 minutes, but it is fun.
I've been working on leveling my Vargul Blighthound, Runedog. He is almost 80. Then I was planning on using him as my DPS pet for when I do instances. For PvP, I still prefer my ice worm, Squirmy.
My next goal for WoW is to work on Reputation. I can get achievements for raising reputation with certain factions. If I can get Exalted with Timbermaw Hold, the Kurenai, and Sporeggar, I can get the title of The Diplomat. I want to buy things from the Kurenai and Sporeggar, so I already had the intention of going back to them. Timbermaw Hold, however, might be just too tedious for me. If they are gray to you, you get a very small amount of rep per kill. I will have to wipe out the camp over and over and over. Seems like a waste of bullets.
Yes, bullets. My Night Elf is sporting a gun, the Nesingwary 4000. For role-playing purposes, I don't think an elf should have a gun. She should have a bow. But this gun is better than any bow I could find. We must be practical.
Tuesday 6/9
There was a thunderstorm, and I lost my Internet connection. It's on cable, and my TV flickered, but the TV didn't go out. I would have rather the TV had gone instead of my Internet! There is nothing on TV, and lately it seems like my whole world is wrapped around the Internet. I could look up... I could read... I could play... No, everything is on the Internet.
I thought I'd give it a half an hour before I called the cable company, to let them get it in order before I inquired. I fell asleep watching Time on the Science channel with Michio Kaku. I woke up an hour later, thinking after my power nap, I could really do some WoWing. The little "send" button was still blinking on my modem and the "online" light was still off.
When I called the cable company, I got the message that they were having a "higher than normal call volume." I thought, "good, maybe they know there's an outage!" So I waited for 20 minutes to get a rep who knew nothing and said they could send a service tech out on Thursday. I was shocked. The thought of being on vacation and not having Internet service until Thursday was unacceptable to me. Then he wanted me to buy some sort of service protection in case the call was chargeable to me. No fucking way it, better not be! But I said, "I want to decline that at this time." I was livid.
So many things went through my head. I decided to bide my time. I made the promise to myself that I would give it the night, and if I didn't have Internet when I got up in the morning, I would call them and ask them to escalate it. We had a storm, and it seems highly likely that this outage is not just me, that it is regional, and they should take it seriously. That he didn't know if it was an outage is unacceptable.
Now, I have to step back and try not to look at it from the perspective of my team. I work for a financial institution doing tech support and application support for a website. Our team is very small. When there is an outage or an issue, we know it, take it seriously, and escalate it immediately. We get internal emails of updates on a regular basis. We communicate to clients any updates we know at the time, and call them back when new information arises. We truly have the knowledge, the tools, and the empowerment to make a difference. I have been in customer service positions where I didn't have any of that, and it is likely that the rep I called didn't have back up either.
My Boys
Bandit is 7 pounds and CK is 4 pounds. It's been a long time since I had "babies." Bandit is teething. Saturday I noticed that he had double fangs, where the adult teeth are pushing out the baby teeth. I noticed blood on his white chin. He doesn't show discomfort, not that I have noticed, but I feel empathy for him because I remember the strange pain of losing teeth.
So I played with my kittens to relieve some stress. Nothing can make me smile quite like my boys. When I was playing with him with the cat wand, I heard what sounded like his tooth catch on the fabric. I stopped and looked at his mouth. One of his baby teeth was gone and his mouth was a little bloody. I don't know if he lost it just at that moment or not, but it seems likely. He didn't let it stop him, though. He still wanted to play. If the Internet remains out, the boys will get a bit more exercise.
Good side effect: they are both sleeping contentedly as I write this. I tired them out, for now.
World of Warcraft ramblings:
I have a week off from work and not much to do. I decided to go through the achievements in World of Warcraft and complete the ones I could. I found all the critters I had to /love, and all the pests I had to kill. I killed 15 turkeys in 3 minutes. I coerced 10 critters to be my minions in 3 minutes with the Critter Bites. I fished in all the fish schools. I did all the daily cooking and fishing quests. I got to Revered with the Oracles and bought my first Mysterious Egg. I even accidentally got two Wintergrasp achievements.
I was flying over Wintergrasp, a Player vs. Player raid area, when the Alliance won. I wasn't part of the raid, but because I was in the zone, I got an achievement for the win, and because they won in under ?? minutes, I got that achievement too! I even got a Wintergrasp Mark of Honor! I was thrilled, because I probably won't ever play Wintergrasp, as it doesn't interest me. I got something for free.
The Critter Gitter achievement was fun. I thought about where I had seen the most critters at once in one area, the Cat Lady's house in Elwyn Forest, and I went there. I also liked the thought of having cats as minions. So went there, threw Critter Bites at all the cats I could see as well as a couple of cows, and completed the achievement. Then, just for fun, I ran them through Goldshire and attempted to take them into Stormwind. I got two whispers asking me about it, which I thought was really amusing. How did I have so many pets out? Was it something from one of the card sets? When I told them what it was, and linked the Critter Bites, the one said he would have to level his cooking, and the other asked me if I had any he could have. I had 5 left in my inventory, so would have let him have them, but you have to be level 70 to use them. I didn't check his level, but I assumed that if he was hanging around Goldshire he probably wasn't level 70. And he didn't argue. You can buy them cheap on the Auction House. It isn't useful, it only lasts 3 minutes, but it is fun.
I've been working on leveling my Vargul Blighthound, Runedog. He is almost 80. Then I was planning on using him as my DPS pet for when I do instances. For PvP, I still prefer my ice worm, Squirmy.
My next goal for WoW is to work on Reputation. I can get achievements for raising reputation with certain factions. If I can get Exalted with Timbermaw Hold, the Kurenai, and Sporeggar, I can get the title of The Diplomat. I want to buy things from the Kurenai and Sporeggar, so I already had the intention of going back to them. Timbermaw Hold, however, might be just too tedious for me. If they are gray to you, you get a very small amount of rep per kill. I will have to wipe out the camp over and over and over. Seems like a waste of bullets.
Yes, bullets. My Night Elf is sporting a gun, the Nesingwary 4000. For role-playing purposes, I don't think an elf should have a gun. She should have a bow. But this gun is better than any bow I could find. We must be practical.
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