The internet connection at our house has not been doing too well.  It lags most of the time and then sporadically drops out whenever it feels tired.  It has felt really tired for the past couple of weeks.  For work purposes, this doesn’t bother me a whole lot.  But for play purposes, this kills my XBox gaming.  I’ll be running around in a game and all of a sudden *poof* I am no longer running around in a game.  Or, sometimes the lag gets so bad that I’ll see people on my screen who aren’t really there.  Since I normally play with friends and can talk with them doing the game, I constantly hear “Land…what are you doing?”

I put up with it for a while.  It’s just a game, it doesn’t really matter…right?  Well, that’s what I thought until this past weekend.  I got online and started playing against a bunch of 12 year olds.  This time, though, I was actually winning the game.  The end was in sight.  There in my grasp was VICTORY AND *poof* - “your connection has been lost“.  That’s it…this internet has to be fixed.  Messing with my e-mail and my work is OK, but you  don’t stop me from winning my SILLY GAMES!

I called the technician on Tuesday, he showed up on Wednesday.  The problem seemed to be with our modem, so he swapped it you.  Kelley asked about the price and he said “Oh, it’s free.”

Now wait just a minute….free?  There’s no way it’s free.  You’ll put it on my bill, won’t you?  Oh, I know, you’ll charge me a “small” monthly fee to rent it, I bet.  I don’t know what this guy’s game is but something just isn’t right.  Nothing is free these days.  I don’t like “free”, it’s just not right.

Oh, as a side note, today marks the 1 year anniversary of my free XM radio.  What was supposed to be a 3 month trial subscription has lasted an entire year.  I like free.