  Bleepity bleep bleep bleep. Bleeeeeeeeeep. Yup. Here's the deal: up until a few days ago I had AOL dialup. Which sucked because 1) it was AOL, and 2) it was dialup. So a few days ago we finally got Earthlink cable.
Yay! But (and this is the big but) we have Windows 98, which as it turns out, isn't so hot with the cable connection. So for the time being, we had both cable and dialup, because our address books and what not were still on AOL and we were in the process of moving them over. So one day we tried to get on the cable, but it wouldn't let us - it just wanted to do dialup. I was like, what the bleep?! and called the Earthlink tech support.
I was on hold for about half an hour when the guy finally picked up and he said, "Yup, that'll happen with Windows 98 because it doesn't like having the two connections at once. But if you just get rid of everything AOL on your computer you should be fine. " OK, big deal. I moved all our address books and favorites over in an hour or two, and then I purged the system completely of AOL. I even went in the back door and got rid of absolutely everything , just be sure. After I finished, I got back on the cable connection.
It wouldn't connect. (Insert very loud explitive here. ) I called the Earthlink people again and was on hold for a bleeping hour and a half before the guy picked up. I talked to him for a half hour and he had me doing all kind of weird things to my computer, some of which I think permanently bleeped it up, but at the end he was like, "Uh, sorry, I don't know what the problem is. I'm gonna redirect you to a tech specialist. " (Side note: if you have to redirect me to a tech specialist, what the bleep are you?!
) So he redirects me and I wait on hold for another bleeping hour and a half before the next guy picks up, and he bleeps with my computer some more and tells me that he can't figure out what it is either so he'll have another tech specialist call me. (Again, what the bleep are you if you aren't a tech specialist?! ) He pretty much told me that I couldn't leave my house for another 24 to 48 hours in case this guy calls. At this point it's really late at night and I haven't done any of my homework, nor have I studied for my GoPo test or the APES quiz on basic chemistry that I hadn't learned yet, and I was upset. Understandably so, yeah? So I told my mom everything that happened and she was just like, "Bleep the whole thing, I'll call those bleep-faces tomorrow and straighten it all out.
" So I went to bed. Not that I got any sleep; I kept having all these really weird and vivid dreams. So anyway, I had the quiz and the test today, neither of which was overly terrible but the whole situation (not being on any sleep for starters) just made the whole thing worse. That kind of sucked. In good news, though, we do have the cable connection back. Yay!
My mom did call those bleepers today and she got a really nice guy and he pretty much fixed it, which was more than all those other stupid people could do. So now I'm all back up. I have a massive headache. I'm going to take a nap. Goodnight. 
