A Little Chat (B7 fic, slashish)
Oct. 21st, 2009 09:46 amLast night my internet conked out right after I said hello to my Partner in Crime. Comcast told me it would be fixed soon, but prob. not before my bedtime. So I phoned PiC with the sad news, and, as you do, sat by the computer prodding the internet every half minute. After a while I grew bored, and missing my B7 'fix', decided to try to make a text pic (overlay type on a photo which has been reduced to a few shades of gray & then cut the shades into separate layers & use that as templates to cut the text and then apply 'stroke' to variably thicken the text in each layer to an appropriate darkness.) This used up a lot of time in part because I decided to write a story on top of the photo based on the photo. I did it all in dialogue because... well... it seemed right.
It did not work out because I forgot several important things. Like spacing the text close together. And not choosing a pic which had too much detail. Still... I had a pretty pic snaffled from
marah_sarie and a story to match.
This morning I still had no internet. Called Comcast & went through 26 button pushes to get to a woman who had no record of there EVER being an outage and told me that my modem was at fault and I should disconnect it from the coax. Not the power. I asked her to verify. Yes, not the power. I disconnected, waited as prescribed, reconnected. Nothing. She said she could schedule a tech and they'd replace the modem. I told her I had my own, since they'd kept giving me broken ones. She said well, then, it'll cost you $30. For a tech to tell me my modem's broken. And not fix it. I said, you're sure unplugging the power & replugging wouldn't help. OH, NO, we reset the modem already. So I said, No thanks and hung up, disconnected the POWER and went to fix a cup of tea. Came back 5 min later, replugged and I'm good to go.
Comcast SUKS.
Anyway, I think I'll buy me a new modem soon, just in case. This one is several years old. But in the meantime, have a tiny bit of fic.
( 1 pic and 1 short story )
It did not work out because I forgot several important things. Like spacing the text close together. And not choosing a pic which had too much detail. Still... I had a pretty pic snaffled from
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This morning I still had no internet. Called Comcast & went through 26 button pushes to get to a woman who had no record of there EVER being an outage and told me that my modem was at fault and I should disconnect it from the coax. Not the power. I asked her to verify. Yes, not the power. I disconnected, waited as prescribed, reconnected. Nothing. She said she could schedule a tech and they'd replace the modem. I told her I had my own, since they'd kept giving me broken ones. She said well, then, it'll cost you $30. For a tech to tell me my modem's broken. And not fix it. I said, you're sure unplugging the power & replugging wouldn't help. OH, NO, we reset the modem already. So I said, No thanks and hung up, disconnected the POWER and went to fix a cup of tea. Came back 5 min later, replugged and I'm good to go.
Comcast SUKS.
Anyway, I think I'll buy me a new modem soon, just in case. This one is several years old. But in the meantime, have a tiny bit of fic.
( 1 pic and 1 short story )