Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Tuesday, April 06, 2004

It must be fate....

Well I had this nasty "spynet" thing attach itself to my homepage for work and couldn't shake it loose. A call to tech support was needed.

My first call, routed to Pakistan, was unsuccessful, next up Seattle. Tony in Seattle says he'll go in there and see what's up and try and delete some stuff, "I'm not going to lose my screensaver am I?" asks moi. "What's your screensaver?" asks Tony....I pause....."Def Leppard"....Silence...."um, ok (with THAT tone)!! So the talk goes back and forth between DL and Hockey and comments are made about camaros.., yada, yada, yada... He really was a nice guy though. And in the end - nothing! It's still there.... Next!

So a call comes in and it's tech support, Dave this time, who is going to take a look. Dave thinks he's going to have to recreate my profile, which means I'll lose all my saved favorites. As Dave is telling me this, he has taken remote access of my computer and is looking around.... The first thing he says is "Um, your going to lose the Def Leppard screensaver" "Oh no, don't you start, I have already had this conversation with Tony!" If you start in on the hockey too, I'm going to get really peeved!" Dave doesn't joke, Dave says "Hey, I play hockey and I have season tickets" Oh, to the T-birds", I ask (thinking Dave is in Seattle). Oh no - Dave says "No, the Colorado Avalanche." I look on the caller ID and sure enough, Dave is calling from Denver (I'd know that area code anywhere..) OMG!!

My new best friend in the whole wide world, Dave, gets the problem solved and as a public service, I let him know that Def Leppard are still around and in fact were in Colorado twice last year, Dave..... I thank him, he assures me he will see about going to see Def Leppard when they come through Colorado again ("cuz I liked Def Leppard back in Jr High." Yep, so did everybody else, Dave) And all is right in the world - that is after I make a call to Tony, in Seattle, letting him know that the problem was fixed: BY A HOCKEY PLAYING, SEASON TICKET HOLDING COLORADO AV'S FAN WHO AT LEAST ADMITTED HE LIKE DEF LEPPARD!! HA! So there!!

Have a good day all!!

As told by moi11:20 AM ...