I may have mentioned a little problem I had a while back with AT&T and a certain pay per view charge.  Well someone is up to their old tricks again because we received a notice in the mail that we signed up for Cinemax!  Now, it is possible that Evie has somehow ordered these things, however, there are a couple of glitches in that theory.  1) Cinemax was ordered while she was on vacation in MI and 2) if she is ordering them she has a very particular taste.  So far the things ordered are WWE Smackdown, the movie Spiderman, a *ahem* pornographic movie and Skin-a-max.  Do those sound like the viewing preferences of my sweet baby girl?  Despite their insistence, there is obviously something more going on here, although I can see why they suspect me.  It’s a frame job I tell ya!

Luckily the guy I talked to this time was super nice and quickly put everything in order.  I don’t understand why they couldn’t be like that the last time I talked to them.  Apparently it is easy to remove Cinemax but hard to remove a pay-per-view.  I also came to learn there were notes in my file based on my previous…uh…disagreement with them.  Whatever.  Just cancel anything that I could possibly order and leave me alone!

I have also been having some problems with my DSL modem.  Long story short it just stopped working when we got back from vacation.  Eventually I learned how to get it to work in 5 minute spurts.  After several calls to tech support and online searches, I discovered that it was overheating.  Removing the casing and exposing the bare circuit board wasn’t enough, but throw in a box fan blowing on it and voila!  Internet!  This was obviously not a viable long term solution and I had some vague notions about somehow buying a heat sink and attaching that, but I just broke down and bought a new modem.  The thing is, this is now my 3rd modem in about 2 years and they are like $70 a pop (although my first one was free from AT&T and the second one was a replacement when the 1st was still under warranty).  Still, I don’t have a good feeling that this one is going to last.  And there are surprisingly few choices.  AT&T basically just offers the one.

So we’re up and running full time again (as of today) and hopefully this will last for many years to come!