I’ve been in Denver almost two months. I have not had internet in my apartment the whole time. I tried, I swear. I requested a modem from Qwest, and it took over a month to arrive. Technically that was the fault of UPS and that I don’t have a “doorman” or a “roommate” for them to deliver it to. Seriously, I can’t be the only person UPS has tried to deliver a package to that works 9 to 5 and doesn’t have these things.
Once it arrived, the modem didn’t work. I spent all of last weekend fiddling with it and an hour on the phone with tech support. They decided they would need to send a technician. So they ask me, when do you have time during the week, 9 to 5? To which I said, I don’t and asked if they have evening or weekend options. The guy said no. He asked if I had a manager on-site or a roommate. No, no. I can’t be the only one with a 9 to 5 job and no roommate.
That technician scheduling thing turned out to be untrue when I called tech support again to tell them if they didn’t send me someone on an evening or a weekend, I would cancel this internet thing altogether.
So they said someone would come Sunday between 8 a.m. and noon. He got here around 10 and spent about half an hour fiddling with things. Then he said he needed to “run down the street” to take care of something. He came back about 45 minutes later. He worked on it a little longer, told me “we’re close,” then left again for over an hour. At 1:30 he returned, and I still haven’t showered or done my laundry or bought my groceries. It took about 20 more minutes and it was done. He apologized that it took so long and said, “basically anything that could be wrong was wrong.” And my day is pretty much wasted, but selfishly, I’m glad it wasn’t just something I was doing wrong.
So that is a long, long description of why I haven’t gotten around to detailing my new Denver life. Also, when I’m at work, I really want to work extra. Seriously, I’m really enjoying my job.
Now I must get out of this apartment and go for a run in this gorgeous, sunny Denver weather. This happened:
Yeah, that's me and Air Force One.
Obama came to Denver in February. I was on the tarmac at Buckley Air Force Base with the rest of the press. Very, very cool. This is as close as we were, but thanks to my zoom, I got some good photos of the Commander in Chief.
