doodledee

The Qwest boys have been heavy up in the neighborhood since Friday. And when I say 'heavy', I mean heavy. Like 30+ trucks at one point. I guess the rain we had last week soaked into some big cable and ruined it. It carried 2700 pair of wires. Served a bunch of houses and one of the local hospitals or clinics or something. Ouch. The new one they put in has 3000 pair of wires in it. They have to individually hook up each wire. It takes forever. They've been working round the clock on it. I talked with one dude who was on his 36 straight hour. (Yes, that's well into double time, in case you were wondering.) I've offered them coffee a couple of times, but they always say no. Even after explaining that me giving them coffee should in no way mean that they should bump my DSL speed while they were down in the hole. Because my coffee is no strings. Though if they wanted to I wouldn't complain. Because it is good coffee. I mean, I grind it myself. So yeah, that should be worth something.