Just under 100 people read the blog yesterday...thanks.
Now, can I please go a few weeks...weeks...Hell, days would be nice...without something falling apart, stop working or just plain disappear? How is it possible that something is visible one day and invisible the next? It's not as if Claude Rains is living in my lap top.
Thanks to diligent sleuthing this last few days I found a fix for that F-ing parasitic advertising Text-Enhance. Yesterday I was able to use the computer in the manner to which I've become accustomed. I had less than twenty-four-hours of bliss.
Last night the main page of my e-mail wouldn't load. No, that's not right. I could read and compose e-mail, I couldn't send e-mail. I was getting conflicting messages about spell check and the server. It was late and I was tired, so I saved unsent mail to draft and shut the lap top down.
As of 9:15 this morning Xfinity e-mail is still down. There are hundreds of posts pertaining to this in the help forums. The number of pages of irate customers rivals a Russian novel. There are a lot of people pissed off at Comcast. I was thinking of adding my own pissed off-ish-ness, but why? What was the point? It wouldn't solve anything.
The laughable part of the problem are the "help" suggestions:
Did you clear your cache?
Which browser/browsers have you tried to get to your email?
Need Email Help? Please post the following information in your post.
Do you use XfinityConnect? The Full or Lite version?
Do you use an email client? Which one? (Eg; Windows Live mail, Outlook, a smartphone etc.)
Which browser/version do you use? And- have you cleared your browser cache.
Which operating system? XP, Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X.
Include details of the problem you are having...DETAILS? I HAVE NO F-ING E-MAIL.
Another suggestion: New browser extensions added recently may be the problem so disable them one at a time. I did add a few yesterday (extensions are sort of like apps). I almost started doing everything suggested like a good Pavlovian doggy. Then I heard the voice of reason in my head. "STOP IT....WHAT THE F$#% ARE YOU DOING?" It's not you, it's them.
Wanda's out at work and her co-worker is out at home. A thousand people are complaining on the help forum. It can't be everyone so it must be Xfinity/Comcast. I made an executive decision not to do a thing, except wait. After several minutes I tried it again.
Comcast.net email and voice mail is currently unavailable.
Some customers may experience problems accessing Comcast e-mail and voicemail through the SmartZone® Communications Center at this time. Our engineers are aware of this issue and are working to resolve this as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. See http://www.comcast.net/outagenotification for the latest information.
I clicked on the suggested link:
This webpage is not available
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Wanda just called, her e-mail is up and running, mine is too. I have fourteen and one is actually from someone of importance. When it was down I felt disconnected. I should have e-mail addresses listed in a notebook. I'll have to ask Wanda if I do.
Now: WHERE THE HELL IS MY VOLUME ICON?
This has nothing to do with e-mail, or the extensions I added, so where did it go? Is there something like a vacation get away for computer icons? Sorry Chuck, I forgot to tell you I'll be spending a few days on Icon Island. I need to soak up some sun and suds. In the meantime, deal with it.
This has happened before and it's an easy fix. Go into the notification section of taskbar and start menu and click display volume icon. This morning I do not have the option to click display volume icon. The choice is gone, disappeared, took a hike, went away. I hope the ticket to Icon Island was round trip. In the meantime I will open the control panel, hardware and sound, adjust system volume and regulate it this way. Or, I could turn the volume off and forget about it.
Headline: Viagra Offers Solution For Shy Guys.
Once again I ask the question...is it me?
I saw it and thought, great. Finally, someone or something has come up with a way to get the shy man laid. But how? Take Viagra to induce a four hour erection and walk around with a sign around your neck...."Have Stiffy Will Travel" or "An Erection Is A Terrible Thing To Waste."
Of course it's nothing that will truly help the sex starved male. It's just another money making idea from Pfizer.
Men who are bashful about needing help in the bedroom no longer have to go to the drugstore to buy that little blue pill.
In a first for the drug industry, Pfizer Inc. told The Associated Press that the drugmaker will begin selling its popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra to patients on its website.
Men still will need a prescription to buy the blue, diamond-shaped pill on viagra.com, but they no longer have to face a pharmacist to get it filled. And for those who are bothered by Viagra's steep $25-a-pill price, Pfizer is offering three free pills with the first order and 30 percent off the second one.
I had no idea...$25 A PILL? I know hookers that charge less than that. But wait....three free pills and a discount on a second order? Where do I sign up?
Isn't it fascinating that the embarrassment of facing a pharmacist has come full circle. Back in my day condoms weren't openly displayed. Asking the druggist for 'rubbers' was very difficult for some. Especially when he knew that you knew you weren't ever going to use the them. In my youth it was very important to have a condom in the wallet, "just in case."
From the awkward teen years of walking around with a perpetual erection (when I was 16 I'd get one driving over a speed bump) to the senior years of needing help, not much has changed. Sex, for some, is still a topic of whispers.
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