Dragging, Comcast smiley face?

I didn’t get to the gym yesterday but I felt spent anyway.  I was sleepy, lethargic and hungry.  I can only hope it was a side effect of the bust ass weekend that included crazy early wake up times.

Earlier in the day I had been working a Craigslist deal for a replacement cable modem.  There was some woman in Bonita Springs selling a refurbished Linksys cable modem.  I emailed her my phone number on Sunday night and told her I was interested and she should call me.

Well she called this morning when I wasn’t in front of my cell phone and left a message.  I called back a half hour later and got her voicemail so I left her a message to call me back so we could arrange to meet.

Mid-afternoon came and I had not received a call back.  In addition I tried calling her number a few more times and again got voicemail.  When 5pm came I had written her off as a dead deal.  Life in Craigslist transaction world moves at breakneck speed, I was done waiting for her.

Instead I just grabbed a modem at Target on the way home.  I was stopping there anyway to get a cheap, wired bike computer for Ali to use on the trainer.  The cheap wireless computer we already had has a VERY short range.  It will only pick up signal from the front wheel, if you move the sensor to the back it won’t work. With the wired version I was able to mount the sensor on the back wheel so Ali can get speed and distance info as she pedaling away in place.

I then swapped out my new cable modem with the loaner I received from the tech.  Getting the modem activated had a very surprising result, a pleasant experience with a Comcast representative.

After getting my new modem commissioned on their network the woman mentioned she saw I was on a promotional plan for my internet service for $34.95.  I was on the “standard” speed plan.  My promo rate was scheduled to expire in September.

She said she could put me on a different promo that would be good for 6 months for only $29.99 a month and it would be their much faster 20mb service. Wow, sounds great, sign me up.  I was somewhat shocked that this woman actually went out of her way to give me something I didn’t ask for.  Hopefully more employees in the Comcast blob take notes.

The internet was jammed with negative reaction to the Casey Anthony trial yesterday where she was found not guilty of killing her daughter.  The outcry was because of some of the details of the case, many of which seem beyond damning evidence of the mother’s guilt.  I haven’t followed the case at all beyond what I have heard others say about it.  It seems like almost an OJ level of controversy.

Since the verdict I have read stories on both sides of the fence.  It seems that the impartial viewpoint is that Casey is guilty of being a piece of shit that will burn in hell if there was one, but the evidence was not concrete enough to convict her of killing the kid. Of course that doesn’t mean she didn’t do it.