Houston: We No Longer Have A Problem

[mrwubbles]

Do you remember a time when the Internet never existed? Me neither! LOL



Yeesh, internet & phone were down since last Thursday night/Friday. The comedy of errors with Verizon, a roof, a basement and clueless snip-happy contractors that followed may be funny ten years from now.

Nevertheless, just wanted to apologize to the various PMs, comments and emails I'd been receiving. I haven't a chance to read them all yet, but will do so soon. 1210 emails in my AOL box. How many do you bet are spam? LOL.

In addition, an extra hug to brate7 who is my Big Bang beta for two fandoms and ran proxy for me for those and the ncis_newsletter. Thank you! My disconnect with the online world was not as utterly devastating with you reaching out to them with "A funny thing happened to mrwubbles today..."

So, I have a third of a Big Bang to go, a Sherlock prompt to fill and email to answer.

Still hobbling away in my Bioness L300 Electro-thingy and had a lovely time last week with family trying to figure out how to pay for it since my insurance decided "It was not medically necessary". When I permanently get out of this chair, I'm hobbling over there to plant my 'medically unnecessary device' up the insurance's arse. I'm thankful my insurance back then deemed my brain surgery as 'necessary' otherwise, forget LJ, you'll need a Ouija board instead.

Anyway, just wanted to thank all for the best wishes and boy I sure miss the Internet! :)

Comments

[brate7.livejournal.com]

Yay! Welcome back! [I almost typed "Welcome home" because that's kind of what it feels like.] Glad I could help.

And I will be right there with you storming the insurance company. How appalling!

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see you back!

I am so sorry the insurance gave you a hard time. We could spork them for you?

[seticat.livejournal.com]

Is this where I date myself terribly to say that I remember when the internet was mostly ARPANET [backed by DARPA and the DOD]. The civilian world ISPs kinda came into things in the 80's - at least in my neck of the woods. My first modem was a whole 300 baud hooked up via a lard line phone connection using a TR-80 with a whole 20MB hard drive running DOS 2.0 [I think - it might have been an earlier version of DOS or even PC-DOS].

Could have been worse. it could have been my very first computer - a Coleco ADAM - which sort of worked until my ex lost the OS cassette tape and shoved a Beach Boys tape in it instead.

It was never quite right after that...

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Okay, I must confess that I recall pre-internet days very well. Also the days when cellphones were 'carphones' due to being the size of a shoebox and weighing pounds. And rotary phones.

When I arrived at college they had just removed the punch-card readers and put in CRT terminals (and we were all, 'ooh, SHINY!', too). When I graduated from college and started my first job the company mainframe occupied a large room and had giant reels of magnetic tape on it.

It was the dark ages, srsly.

And, I have a black belt in karate. When you go to chastise the insurance people, maybe I can come along and break their limbs in a few places so they get some valuable experience in how necessary medical devices are?

[katewallace.livejournal.com]

I do remember when there was no Internet...no cable TV, just three channels (four, if you were lucky) that all went snowy at about 1:00am. Black and white TV, too. *sigh* I would have *killed* (okay, *maimed*, maybe) to have had a computer in college..it was card catalogs all the way, baby! And VCR's the size of suitcases that used tapes that cost $25 each. Now my 3 1/2 year old grandsons know how to use the mouse and play computer games. But I *heart* the Internet shopping, so I can't complain!

On the other hand, if you need a someone else to ride against the insurance company..just let me know. I'll gladly come along to help with the smiting!

[mrwubbles.livejournal.com]

ah yes, insurance? Where would be without it telling me my wheelchair is 'unnecessary medical equipment'