< tenth> I am moved
< exarkun> tenth: yay congrats
< tenth> exarkun: Thanks! It is good to be here, especially now that I have a cable modem that can send and receive packets
< tenth> It was pretty classic Comcast... The first guy came, did some fairly heroic stuff with wiring so that we could actually get service at my place, and gave us a cable modem that looked like the previous, decently working one I had at my last apartment
< tenth> But it barely worked... I ran some "Can your PC run VOIP?" tests, and the jitter was averaging 150 - 300 ms, and the upload speed was not good, and the download speed was fluttering around in the Dialup Speed neighborhood
< tenth> We called Comcast and complained and got the usual "Is the box plugged into a wire? And by "plugged" I mean, fitted into a little wire-shaped hole, and not just sitting on or duct taped to the box?"
< tenth> But finally a second Comcast dude came... On Sunday, even, and took one look at the box and said "Aha. When I arrive at a call and see that model of cable modem, I just throw that shit in the trash."
< tenth> And lo, it did have like 198 timeouts and much other badness; I think the entire error log built into the box was completely full just from Sunday morning
< tenth> And now it seems to be okay.
< tenth> The new box is smaller, and capable of both transmitting and receiving digital digits
< tenth> And something like nine people helped me move, which was heartwarming and extremely helpful!
< tenth> The Budget Truck rental failed, because the Budget Truck guy didn't notice that there was a reservation in his system; I guess he doesn't push the "SEE BUSINESS" button unless you call him and ask him to perform that service.
< exarkun> wow
< exarkun> so not so much a "reservation system" as something else
< exarkun> "waste of time system" maybe?
< tenth> exarkun: Well, to be fair, when I was standing in his office, he didn't believe me... But then he pushed the "GIVE A CRAP" button on his Thinking Machine and said "Oh, yeah, you totally made a reservation, like, a week ago. But I was pretty sure there were no reservations for this weekend. Which is too bad, because I have no trucks here."
< tenth> "But I can call Larry; Larry is a GOOD GUY. He probably knows where some trucks are."
< tenth> And he called Larry, and while I couldn't hear the other side of the conversation, I'm pretty sure Larry said "I AM ERROR *BEEP*" and hung up, because the guy said "uh... oh. Okay. Thanks, Larry."
< tenth> He dutifully called three other rental locations, and finally told us that he would cancel our reservation, and gave us directions to a fourth rental location in... Some town I've never heard of, where the 10 Foot Trucks flow like wine at a restaurant that, unlike Sun Auto Repair, still has a liquor license.
< tenth> But the friends who came to help me move had a Subaru Hatchback Station Wagon and a Ford F150 Extreme Sports Hauling truck between them, and we just used those, and I then I used the Budget Rental money to buy them nachos and buttered rum at Christopher's, and it all worked out.