Well phone service is supposed to be restored sometime today before 8pm. I'm waiting here for the tech to come out in case he needs to get into the house to check the inside wiring but I already tried plugging a phone into the box outside the house and there's no dial tone there either so the problem is somewhere between the box outside and SBC. But I have to hang around the house anyway because God forbid they come out and I'm not here.
I'm stuck on another spot on FarCry. The spot I'm at isn't really that hard unless you are just about out of ammo with no armor and only a about a quarter health left like I am at the moment. I don't know what happened to all my ammo. I coulda swore I had like 250 rounds for my M4 and AG36 but now I have maybe 12 rounds for the M4 and nothing for the AG36. My shotgun is down to a little under 30 rounds and I keep running into the big guys with rocket launchers that take a lot of shots to kill.
The boss got on my case again for taking today off because a bunch of updates are coming in today for a couple of sites. I just hope come review time he remembers who got a sweepstakes built in two hours or the Easter poll I did last night in under an hour. Since he got promoted he quickly forgot how the team I am on doesn't get the same amount of time to work on stuff as any other teams. Where they get a week or more to do something, I usually get 4 hours if I'm lucky and I usually end up working late on Friday nights. You would think the business unit would tell the outside developer to get the updates to us sooner but they leave at the normal time and find out from us via email at 8 or 9 that the update went live.
In an update to the the phone line being down, the SBC guy just showed up and I was talking to him. He said they were installing the gear for fiber to the node down the street and probably screwed up my connection in the process. He went down to check and should be back in a minute.
DOH! SBC crashed because of the rain today so I am without phone service. At least the woman on the phone was blaming it on the rain but I lost connectivity with the server around 10am and DairyQueen says it wasn't raining here at 10am. I have an appointment for a tech to come out and see if he can fix the problem but that's not till Thursday. And the window for when he might show up is between 8am and 8pm. Nice! Vonage phone service over Comcast DSL is looking better and better everyday. No hyperlinks for any of 'em cuz they're all working for the man!!!!
I got passed the latest tough spot in FarCry. I was in an area where I have to shoot one guy and then all his buddies run out the back door and try to sneak up on me while I'm standing on a catwalk over the control center. I tricked them by jumping off the catwalk and running to the door they all ran out of and was able to push a big cart through it and shoot all of them over the top of it. It made me a harder target but left all of them wide open. I only meant to block the door so nobody could get in but pushing it through proved to be the best tactic as I was able to take them all out on the first attempt.
DOH! My producer chewed me out today for not putting a job into testing before I went to lunch even though my computer was downstairs with the i.t. guys trying to remove a virus that wouldn't let me log into it. He got on me a couple of days ago because I was trying to make the required templates for a sweepstakes that had to go through two levels of testing so it could be live today so we could launch the link to it on schedule on Monday instead of fixing a couple of bugs on another site that requires no testing and could go live at any time. I think his head is gonna explode any day now because he's gotta be stressing hard core.
I know spring is here because I can get 94.9 in the truck on the way to and from work again. Something with the position of the sun or something makes it a religious station during the winter months. Click here to listen online.
FarCry is getting butt ugly tough to the point of being annoying. I shoulda played on a lesser skill level. I keep getting ambushed by a group of like six guys that catch me in the middle of reloading or running for cover.