1:44 AM

It’s 1:44AM and the Internet is down. Damn you, Comcast! Damn you to Hell, you damn dirty corporate entity!

It’s 1:46AM and the Internet is up again. Nice going, Comcast! I knew there was a reason I do business with you.

Remember that scene in Planet of the Apes in which the apes are chasing Charlton Heston with rolling pins? O-r-r-r…possibly they were clubs, now that I think about it. Either way, it was funny. I mean, Planet of the Apes was a comedy, wasn’t it? It had talking monkeys—ok, apes—and…oh, I was just informed it was a drama. (But a comedy-drama, right?)

Actually, Comcast has been quite reliable lately. But there was a time when there were sufficient outages to induce me to create a little program that will inform me when the Internet is UP (as opposed to DOWN). It gives me one of two messages.

or the very unwelcome…

When the Internet goes down, I run my Internet status program and it puts a window on the screen that shows the status is DOWN. When the Internet comes back, the status display changes to UP and that is accompanied by a loud, 3-second sound of a bell. B-a-w-n-n-n-n-g-g-g-g

And I go “Yay, the Internet is back!” and I walk to my PC and I sit down and close the Internet Status app and get back to what I was doing. Happiness reigns once again at VERBAGE.