Problems with High Speed Internet

So our internet provider is acting suspicious.

This is what happened: Beth and I wanted to watch the season premier of Lost, and we don't have TV. This hasn't been an issue for anything. Between Hulu, Netflix, and other stuff we can pretty much watch whatever show we want.

So as we were trying to watch Lost, the dang internet was CRAWLING. I felt like it was 1996 and I was huddled around Mr. Anderson's computer in English class waiting for the movie clip to load so we can see a woman play with a fake tiger.

Don't ask.

Anyway, it only let us watch a few moments at a time, which sucks. Beth did a speed test and (and I don't fully understand the terminology) but it said we only had one bite. Or something. It was bad.

I called up the company and after spending half an hour on hold listening to the music static in and out I thought, "screw it" and decided to go for the online support.

I chatted with a person who talked me though some sort of witch doctor look at my computer. He said it was fast enough. I said it wasn't and he said it was.

Rather than resort to a fifth grade argument, and because it was a chat screen on the computer, I simply closed the browser.

Now the internet is working faster than I've ever seen it.

This is what I think, and I have no knowledge or how these companies do stuff, but it's expensive to provide high speed internet. So, I envision a large instrument panel that has the name of every subscriber they have. Next to the name is a dial that goes from 1-1o. When you are brand new customer, they set it to 10, which is the fastest. Over time, they turn it down to slow down the internet, which is cheaper for them. If you call them to complain, they turn it back up to placate you.

I'M ON TO YOU!!!!!

But that's not the point.

I have a much clearer vision about the next story. Yes, it will be about the people in a music festival. Yes, it will be about the end of the world. I was trying to think of a way for the world to end that wasn't done to death. No zombies, no global war, no super virus.

I sent of a query off to a agent and it led me to read the story I got published in The Abacot Journal and it got me to thinking.

It's a good story and a good concept. Putting normal dorks into larger than life, or supernatural, situations.

So if I have the story be about the actuality of the apocalypse from the point of view of the people participating in it, the 4 horsemen and so forth... I like it.