My cable modem finally burned out (it was 10+ years old) so I had it take it into the local Xfinity shop to get it replaced. They (six of them) stared at it with wonder and disbelief, having never seen that model ever before. So, they give me the wrong type of cable modem and I get back home... and of course it won't work.
4+ hours on the phone with Xfinity support (guys in India) ensues and accomplishes nothing. So I take new cable modem back to store and they replace it with a different model (the correct one). Still doesn't work.
2+ more hours on the phone with support... accomplishes nothing. Get an appointment for a service call technician to come and fix problem. Tech comes... and says 'I've seen this problem once before, five + years ago..." it's a billing problem and not a hardware issue. He leaves... no internet still.
Off back to Xfinity store, and 'Yes' it is a billing issue! I was (10+ years ago) originally an Earthlink customer, which was then bought and is now part of Comcast/Xfinity... but the billing is technically different. So I had to change my internet service plan - and then the new modem would work! So 5+ days without internet!
Next to last chapter of 'I'm going to make it" is posted. Chapter 12 will be the last one. Maybe done for this weekend, but I'm a week behind on everything I needed to do last week.
Fleet Girl bombed horribly. It was just a silly idea that was in my head that I thought deserved a little attention. I may write a chapter 3 for it anyway, since that's the part of the story that I actually most wanted to tell :/
Chapter Two of Fleet Girl had a bunch of typos... fixed now, not that anyone cares