[loan4younow]

turbo tier here provides an amazing 512kb upload which usually was closer to 384k. the 7M I dropped to is 256k up and I am getting around 300k. And to top it all off I went today to get a new dvr, as my inlaws had a 32inch sony 1080p tv still in a box since christmas they more or less let us have until they find somewhere to put it (want it for their bathroom after they remodel). They gave me one of the shiny new cisco units with an ethernet port and a bunch of other upgrades over the older 8300hd I have in the living room now. I got home and hooked it up to find I have a dead unit. called tech support and they said they can see the box, but they arent getting any reply from it. have to swap it out. wouldnt be so bad if the update they sent out earlier in the year didnt kill 2 boxes in a row that I had to swap already. atleast this one I didnt get into weeks worth of stuff on the dvr to watch that got lost and having to redo all the scheduled recordings like with the other boxes. then to top off my day (started at 6am after finally getting to sleep around 3) work called today and said they are slammed and need me to come in and work for the rest of the week even though I am supposed to be off with my newborn. I agreed if I could stay in town, then they say they need me out of town on a job cause nobody else knows what to do other than the 1 guy they have there already. Its hard to say no with the job market the way it is these days, and the fact I have already used all my vacation and personal days and they were just letting me off because they are good people who understand what its like with kids. So we spent the rest of the day trying to arrange for people to come different days to stay with my wife since she is more or less on light duty only orders from the doctor. no cooking, driving, or walking unless necessary. Now I have to go to the mall on saturday to the time warner store and stand in line all day to return the box because the other store I usually go to is closed and the soonest time for a tech to come out and swap it was 2 weeks. [cursing]