INKSTAND

I called comcast a few days before I left for California. We set it up so that they’d come hook up the internet the day after we returned between 8 am and noon. Now I had no idea what this was going to consist of, what the guy was going to have to do, etc. I had visions of a guy in a cherry picker on the street fucking with the power lines five hours after he said he’d be here. I am happy to report that the young man who came to do the installation was not only on time, but very tall and reasonably attractive.

He got right to work, but in the meantime I wasn’t sure what to do. My roomates had holed up in one of the bedrooms and I didn’t want to join them for fear of being rude. So I sat and read the Stranger for a while and small talk was made with the cable guy every so often. Then he hit a snag. Apparently I have some firewall that wasn’t allowing the signal in. He tried to fix it for quite a while before restating the computer in safe mode. That way he was able to at least complete the installation, and I took care of the rest later.

Right after he left I noticed that he left some sort of hand held computer thingy on top of my TV. I assumed he’d come back right away, but he didn’t. It wasn’t until after my roomates had left to go buy a wireless router that he called and said he would be by to get it. Let’s see…I’m home alone and the cable guy’s coming over to pick up a heavy peice of equipment. Instantly several porno scenarios ran through my head. However, due to my cowardice and assumption that every guy I meet is straight, I knew that I would never be able to instigate such an encounter and that it would just be akward. So when he rolled up I was out the front door and just handed it to him. We had a friendly exchange of one or two scentences and that was that.

All and all not a bad experience.

oh, yeah, when he left he was loading a bunch of stuff into his van and I got to watch him bend over a lot.

man, he’s cute.

(This doesn’t apply to my no-reviewing-people rule. I don’t know him and am barley seeing him in my peripheral vision.)

I got here fairly early yesterday in the hopes of using the internet, but apperently the summer sun brings people out in droves. They proceeded to swarm around Ballard like so many maggots on a dead carcass baking in the summer heat. I didn’t get to use the internet at all and then had to go to work. I was lucky today, but I still have to go to work.

Again, I didn’t like what I wrote here before, so I made it dissapear. I like having god-like options.
6-16-06

Well. there was a long rant here that I wrote while I was drunk and because I control this space, I made it go away.
5-13-06

It’s been a while since my last post because I have no internet connection at home and it is really pissing me off. I come down to the library at least once a day to check my mail, take care of any of that financial bullshit we all go through, or do whatever else. If I am lucky enough to get a computer, it’s only one of the fifteen minute stations, so I can’t really do a lot.
Last night at work I forgot to cash my check so I had to go to the bank this morning to do it. the library is right across the street so i stopped in to do my shit. I’m also expecting a lot of comics books I’ve had on hold since I paid off $60 in late fees. I walked in and to my suprise the place was dead. most of the 15 minute computers are free and a few of the 1 hour ones are even open( im on one now) And I don’t hear any screaming kids, or stupid new mothers that my generation has produced who are rying in vain to control them. It’s like a REAL library! I think I’ll be stopping in here next week to see if it’s still as accomidating. If so, I’ll be posting more reviews…excellent…