Yesterday, at about lunch time, my internet went down. I tried to restart the modem, no go. I left it alone thinking that it was probably an outage in the area as there was some freaky weather here in Maroubra (very strong winds and some rain). This morning there was still no internet. I called Telstra, some guys wasted a shitload of my time and at the end of it he said he couldn’t help me any further because I wasn’t using a Telstra modem. FUCK! I am 100% sure the DLINK modem I am using is a Telstra approved modem (it says so on the box?!), in any case I called Telstra sales and ordered a new modem from them. $99 on special, great, but it might take 3-5days to get to me (not great).
Yesterday I also had a built-in wardrobe guy come around to give me a quote on a wardrobe for the bedroom + a linen closet for the hallway. He was going to email me the quote today but since I have no email I got him to send the quote to my Mums email addy (I’m at my Mums now). The quote came in at $4900 for the bedroom wardrobe and $2300 for the hallway one. FUCK! That’s a shitload of cash. I can’t see how I could justify that at all. One thing he did say was that the flor wasnd’t level in the bedroom, that freaks me out a little. If I bought an IKEA wardrobe ($1800-ish) it might not even sit right? I tried to call the guy but he didn’t pick up so I sent him an email, complete with sob story. I’m really hoping he will bring the quote down ($5k for both wardrobes would be AOK).
So, no internet = no work. I might as well read (something I rarely do, maybe a book every 2 years?!). I’ve just finished reading Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress, it was so crap but I couldn’t put it down. Christina bought me The Godfather to read (I’m 30 pages in and it’s reading like a bad 80’s porno). Friends on FaceBook have suggested a few books though, might run out and buy a couple of them.