Umm... technicians are useless.

The house is so quiet when Miki isn't here, I'm so lonely.
Hey Miki! You better pulverize everyone in the ice sculpting round!!! GOOD LUCK!

Today my parents want me to go shopping with them, so I left the house for a little while.
We went to Best Buy to get some usb phone jacks for free phone calls. While we were there I spotted a nice wireless router. I pulled off the puppy eyes, I'm the youngest in my family's generation, so I'm super spoiled... 3 minutes later my parents are at the payment counter paying for the new router, score!

When I got back home, I opened up the box and ran the software cd on the computer. It was working normally, checking network connections and what not. I followed the easy connection steps, unplug this, replug that. Then when it got to the final step of connection verification, I sat in front of the computer for 15 minutes and all it did was show me a rather annoying notification: ERROR! CONNECTION FAILED OR NOT DETECTED PLEASE CHECK ETHERNET CABLE! At that point, I'm repeatedly punching the monitor. I repeated the setup process for about five times, including the punching.

I eventually gave up and called comcast (my service provider). The first thing customer service asked me was, "is the router one that comcast sent you?", I replied with a big NO. The customer service guy says, "I'm sorry but we only do technical support for comcast authorized routers and modems." I said "thank you for nothing" and hung up right away.

Next thing I tried was call LINKSYS, the company that manufactures the router. When my called got through, I was greeted by a very heavily Indian accented lady, I couldn't understand her over the phone. Anyways I was on the phone with her for about an hour, basically retyping "ipconfig" in the command window and ending up with no results or ip address for that matter. At one point she told me to reconnect the internet cord back into the computer, but in order to do that I must reset my connection and I totally forgot that my house phone gets reset when I do that too. So, stupid me gets disconnected from the technician from a clumsy error.

After my phone reset itself I called back immediately and I didn't get the same technician who was helping me earlier. I felt bad for the lady I accidentally hung up on, really I do and now I'm sad even though she wasn't helping much. Fortunately the next technician I got was fluent in English. I followed her new set of instructions and successfully got the port light on the router to turn on, in which earlier it seemed to refuse to turn on. That was a good sign, but the next step was to get the manual registration page open, that was a total fail. I got the page to open but there was a loading bar pop-up which froze the page and made it unusable. I was on the phone with this technician for TWO HOURS. Her instructions didn't get me very far either, she had me switch to different computers to test the connection to the page. All attempts were futile, I was getting irritated.

The technician gave up too. She gave me a few reference numbers and told me to get a functional computer, what the..*sigh* seriously lady, all my computers work, its your webpage that's ticking me off. Well, she pretty much said that all three of my computers were hopeless. Whatever... I said thank you and hung up.

Heh...after my annoying tech calls, I decided to try one more time on my own, since the connections to the ports were verified and apparently functional. Whadya know, the connection/verification was successful and wireless network is setup. See! I can set it up by myself. The techies I called blamed my disc for being defective, which was why it wasn't connecting properly. In your face techies!!! My disc was fine. I set up the connection and named it "Dancing Tofu Slicer" since I couldn't get a hold of Miki, she always has a say in whatever naming processes we have.

My wireless is up and now I can go on the net with my Wii and PS3.
Tomorrow I have to go to the hospital to see if the dumb doctors can do anything about my blind eye.
I will write more tomorrow, bye!

Bad news.

Okay... a little drugged up on dye injections from the hospital, whoa the computer is moving...lol...

I waited for two hours in the waiting room when I got to the hospital. When the nurse called me, she dilated my eyes, ouch, light is so bright.

After my eye torture, one of the eye doctors made me sign a consent form for taking pictures for my eye? The random doctor explained that I would be getting an injection before the pictures and the hospital is not responsible for any complications that may occur blah blah blah. Then the doctor started to list the random side effects of the injection. This was our conversation:

Doctor: do you have any questions?
Me: No, not really.
Doctor: okay, just so you know, the side effects of the injection include dizziness, skin irritation, aching, insomnia, bleeding, irregular heart beats, swelling, itchiness, death, dry eyes, difficulty breathing, vomiting, migraines, tremendous pain in the arm, nausea, yellowing of the skin and temporary skin discoloration. If you agree to the terms and conditions please sign your name next to the "X". *hands me clipboard*
Me:.........wha.... *signs paper*
Doctor: you're all set kid! *quickly walks away with the signed papers*
Me: he did not! just call me kid...

I'm afraid of syringes!!!! They had to hold me down. Recall the dilation process I was talking about earlier, yeah, it makes you super super super sensitive to all kinds of light (artificial and natural light), so you feel like a lightphobic vampire. It was horrible when they were taking pictures! I'm sitting with my head pinned to a microscope that has a powerful lamp (powerful enough to see straight through your eye like glass) pointed directly at my dilated eyes. I was physically forced to have my eyelids held open and on top of that I had to stare directly at the damn light. It was more painful than it sounds. Being dilated and staring at a super bright light without being allowed to blink for 5 minutes, PURE TORTURE! I was taking pictures for an hour in front of that evil bright lamp.

After pictures, I had to go see my doctor, Dr. Mackintosh (I think of apples...for some reason). Even though I'm sitting in his office I still had to wait because he was taking care of 10 patients at the same time. So....2 hours later he shows up and does another microscope examination, ARGH MORE LIGHTS?! I had to sit through another eye singeing examination, I could hardly keep my eyes open from so much light. Doctor then tells me to sit tight while he looks at my photo results and gets a hold of the head doctor.

HERE'S THE BAD NEWS
2 hours later Dr. M comes back with a disappointed look on his face. "Well the good news is that there are no signs of abnormality in the photos, everything looks fine, blood vessels intact, no bleeding or displacements." "However, the bad news is... your eye's shape has changed and is slowly losing it's vision range" "We can't do anything about about it because your eye is damaged beyond repair, we're sorry but there really is nothing we can do, I mean your retena is too severely damaged beyond recognition for us to do anything, again, we're sorry" "Your vision will never be restored, you just have to live with it, we're sorry."

I'm going to be blind.....forever????
I feel a little dizzy/sick from the injection, other than that I'm fine, kinda.
An advantage for my eyes being dilated, I can see so well in the dark, "I see you lurking around, Pikus".