Yay! I'm back. My phone was plagued by static for the last couple days, which meant my dsl didn't work either. Calling the 611 repair line is a small dose of Hell. Feel free to skip this if you have been through it. First you have to make sure you press the option for repair. Then they give you the option of listening to some sales pitch or other(no, thanks). Then they automatically test your line and come back to tell you there is something wrong and do you want it fixed (duh). When you press yes they launch into about a twelve minute caution about how much it will cost you if it isn't their fault. Then they give you the option for a 4-hour window, which turns out to actually be an 11-hour window, 8 am to 7 pm. Fine fine fine, whatever, just freakin' get out here. Except I'm not ever talking to a person. So the guy calls me and tells me he called my number and it was fine and talked to somebody who would be home if I still wanted him to go out there. I put him on hold and called my number (thank God for 2 lines at work), which was completely static. So he went out. He of course called back when I was at lunch and he had fixed the problem, which was, of course, on the pole. He also confessed to calling the wrong number earlier, which was actually good, because if he had talked to someone at my house then I may have been getting robbed by somebody cheeky enough to answer the phone.
CALL ME