Category: News

Yeah, I know there’s a band around the area called the Waiting Game. Actually, I think they’re pretty good, and I know a couple of the guys in the band – from back when they were called Morningside Drive.

So here’s the deal: Now that I don’t have internet service at the house, I’ve been feeling a lot more bobo – hanging out at coffee shops and places that have free Wi-Fi… weird. There’s a whole internet coffee culture out there that I didn’t know about before!

Right now, literally, I’m waiting to hear back from Jeremy Casella in Nashville about the final mixes of the songs that I recorded down there. Mike Odmark sent us the first passes of the mixes a few days ago, we’ve made some comments on them, and I should be getting back final mixes probably by the end of the week.

Waiting. So much of life is about waiting. In fact, I would say that life itself is about waiting. All of it. As I like to say, “Change is the only constant”, and I guess we’re really just waiting for change… (Okay, I didn’t intend this to sound like Mayer’s first single from Continuum… That’s a different topic altogether.)

I guess what I’m saying is that I’m actively waiting for my music career to catch up with my heart. But it’s more than that. I’m hoping that my heart is right first, and that the music will be integral to living as I was meant to live.

About three weeks ago, I called Comcast to get my cable internet rate lowered. Why did I call in the first place? Because my bill said that i would be charged $60 for my next month’s service! Just for internet service! Yeah, I know, there’s a price to pay with technology and all of that, but that’s ridiculous!

Basically, I said, “Lower my bill or I’m cancelling service, because I have never been charged that much before.” Their response was, “We have this great promotion going on right now: $10 off for 3 months.” Ten dollars? Three months? Who do they think they are?!? They don’t even have to service the line. All they have to do is keep the pipeline open! They call $50 a month a deal, when their company doesn’t have to do anything?!? Yeah right. I cancelled service.

And if that’s not enough, when I said “Cancel my service,” the woman from Comcast said, “When do you want to stop service?”. NOW! Well, for whatever reason, they stopped billing me from that day on, but couldn’t terminate service until two weeks later… Again, ridiculous. If they can monitor my computer’s internet activity from their service offices, they should be able to stop it from there, too. (Maybe I just don’t know how the technology works.)
So here’s the deal: it seems to me that Comcast has a monopoly on cable internet service in DuPage County. I searched for other providers and came up empty. What can you do? Don’t know.

I’m now sitting at the public library, typing on a borrowed laptop from my sister. And, doing a little research, I found out that 1) the library has free Wi-Fi that broadcasts 24-7, and 2) I can set up a monthly payment plan for a Macbook that’s less than $60 a month! I should have cancelled service months ago!

By the way, I don’t have ten reasons…