Has Your Light Gone Out Yet?

32  72% 27% 1mph N bar20.68 steady windchill32  Winter

                    New Moon

Simplicity.  Ah.  About two hours ago I called Comcast to activate the new digital box I got downstairs because the old one, according to Comcast, was a non-responding box.   So, I call this guy.  A disembodied voice that asks me all the usual questions:  phone number, address, name, size of my boxer shorts and my ring finger.  As he talks, he says he’s aboot got my account up. 

I say, so, you’re in Canada.  Yes.  I am.  How did  you know?  An o or two that stayed longer than usual for my ear.  Oh.

We talk about Stratford and his fiance and how they want to go their once.  How Chatham, where he lives, has just had a remodel.  He thinks it will become an art city like Stratford.  Then he sends a jolt to my box from Chatham, Ontario.

It should go out.

It hasn’t.

I’ll send another one, a stronger one.  This from a guy in Chatham, Ontario.  He’s communicating directly with my TV converter box.

Still not out.

Well, wait about 20 minutes. That should do it.  If it doesn’t, just call back.

It’s not out yet–an hour and a half later.  So, I’ll call back. Talk to someone else in Chatham.  Start over.