It's raining but they haven't cancelled soccer. Grace and I are sitting at home. We've done rainbow writing and we've done math workbooks and we've done all sorts of other stuff. But she wants attention and I want a moment. So I just dumped a box of buttons on the floor and she is sorting them by color.

Look! A math project that I don't have to participate in. Whew.

Bad mommy. No biscuit.

As a kid--and a not so small kid--I adored sorting the button box. Big box of buttons, metal cupcake pan--I was good for hours.

I have a short pair of Western Chief boots--similar to Bogs. They fit great and have a lot of give. And I have thundering, roller derby calves.

Time Warner keeps giving me the number I just called to call to solve the problem. This is an epitome of the right hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

When I tried to call Comcast about internet issues, I kept running into the problem where the machine would ask for the phone number associated with the account, and I'd enter it, but then, rather than doing the sensible thing and looking up what account was associated with that number and transferring me to the regional Comcast office that was in charge of that account, they'd transfer me to the regional Comcast office in charge of accounts for the area code of that number. Which was useless, because my account is in Pennsylvania, and my phone is a DC cell phone. After getting caught in a loop several times, someone finally told me that, when the system asks for my number the first time, I should enter the phone number of the pizza place down the street. That will get me transferred to the right regional office, where a person will answer the phone and ask me for my name and address, which they can use to pull up my actual account.

this is so fucking stupid.

Thankful for Charter Communication's Twitter Customer Service team.

The even better thing is that the people giving me their own number apparently thought they were pawning me off on TiVo. Now that they finally have, of course TiVo thinks it's a Time Warner issue. I fear this will be my day's energy getting TNT back. I managed to get the National Geographic channel back myself, but that's not where Major Crimes is aired. Perhaps this is a sign.

At least to torrent.

Cablevision's automated menus mostly try to hard-sell their website. Which would be a really helpful thing to know if I ever called them for a reason other than my internet being down.

I was tweeting Comcast all the time for a while there, but it never really did me any good. My box seems to have gotten better, though, because the special phone number I got from Twitter is answered by people whose only idea is to "send someone out." Which, you know, if they could come right now would be fine. But they can come next Wednesday at 11.

Hey, what was that website for alternative historical female costumes?