Okay, so this morning the day was moving along just fine. Kids were up and watching a little TV while I made their lunches.  Then I made their lunches.  Then Noah calls–“Mom, what did you do?”

“What?”

“The tv stopped working.”

And yes, there it was the blue screen of TV death.

I went downstairs to check our u-verse router.  Sure enough the broadband signal was blinking red.  I reset it and still blinking red.  UGH.  Frustrated.  I’m sorry, but I wanted to watch criminal minds tonight and survivor. I will miss them both and won’t be able to record them–since no connection at home.

This of course also means no internet and no phone.  We are really going to be kicking it old school at our house tonight.  We might have to talk to each other and play games.  I am actually looking forward to being able to just hang with the kids and not have the TV on.  It’s really not on that much at our house–mostly Bill and I watch TV after the kids are in bed.

I contacted AT&T this morning via live chat and after explaining that I wasn’t getting any service at home, the customer service agent asked me several times if I could tell him what the lights on the gateway/router were doing.  Umm..no.  We are chatting and I don’t have internet at home–so that should tell you that I am actually not at my house.

So, this makes me skeptical that he could really tell what was wrong with my particular system.  I will probably check again tonight when I get home and actually make a phone call to attempt to talk to someone.  That seems like a not at all frustrating way to spend my evening.

Maybe I will take up knitting?  Probably not.  I’ll probably read on my iPad- thankfully AT&T isn’t my electric provider.