Oh god yes Oh lord thankz

[NerfHerder]

I've recently graduated from college and now I'm out on my mothafuckin own. As I just moved into my new place, I went into the deal knowing I probably wouldn't have such modern amenities as television and internet service. My my, I called the company a week before I moved in and even then the earliest install date was for three weeks away. Aye mie! But I fucking did it anyway because it's AT&T U-Verse and therefore amazing.

I have no idea if any of you guys got screwed by hurricane Ike this summer but somehow its lame-ass tropical depression moved its way up to Ohio and just raped the shit out of everything. That was on Sunday. I work nights and I get home around Conan O'Clock, so coming home to a completely dark and relatively new apartment complex blew ass pretty hard. Around Wednesday, when I spent the whole day reading The God Delusion, I started to wonder if the power would be back before Saturday.

Late Wednesday the Electricity company put out a map of where and when people should be getting service back. I was supposed to have it back Thursday, so I wasn't super psyched to come home to disappointment. Nothin' Friday either.

Friday I call AT&T: "Do you have to have electricity to get uverse installed? Yeah? Maybe you could just bring the stuff here and I could hook it up later? No? Shit. Reschedule plz." Bittersweetly, the power came back on five hours or so after my scheduled install time.

So here we are a week and a half after that conversation. The internet is as glorious as I remember it. I've already downloaded a ton of new albums (WOAH THE NEW MGMT IS FUCKING GOOD) and looked at all my bookmarks and webcomics and Googled a nearly pizza place's number and looked at a ton of porn and checked my email and downloaded the system updates. Internet!

Hell, Conan is ON television right now but I'm DVRing it because I can. OH MAN I just remembered I did the VP debate too and I hope Joe Biden literally raped that gorgeous but unqualified piece of eye candy.

Anyway I think two rape jokes is as far as I'll go in any single post, so it's off to the debates. Godspeed, fellow Forkers.

[mere1975]

Welcome back, Nerfcakes.

Are you going to be all mysterious like Mr. J or are you going to tell us what you do for a living now? And if it is journalism, do you wear a "PRESS" hat?

- Mere "God, I hope so" 1975

[Irock]

U-verse is bogus. Same old shit, coax cable, yaaaaawn.

I ordered FiOS Wednesday, woo! They'd have installed it tomorrow, but I asked them to wait til I move in.

/corporate shilling

Congrats on your grown-up-ness. You had an almost week-long power outage? That's some shit, sorry!

[Phyllis]

(WOAH THE NEW MGMT IS FUCKING GOOD)

IA

[monet2u]

wow, a recent grad, living on your own, working, and all the rest...next you'll have a gf moving in then married and a baby or baby and married or just baby....any way it's just down the road.

welcome back.

[katie]

welcome back to the land of teh internets.

[roach]

sounds like you got more of the hurricane than dallas did. and congrats on being all growed up.

[NerfHerder]

Are you going to be all mysterious like Mr. J or are you going to tell us what you do for a living now? And if it is journalism, do you wear a "PRESS" hat?

I have two jobs, actually. By day, I'm an intern at Columbus' alternative newspaper, The Other Paper. At night, I do tech support for Verizon FiOS.

On Saturdays apparently I watch college football and sit around in my underwear all day.

[sam]

On Saturdays apparently I watch college football and sit around in my underwear all day.

word

[monet2u]

On Saturdays apparently I watch college football and sit around in my underwear all day.

word

um, is that the 'for better or worse' part?

[mr_j]

dear nerf,

i revealed myself to the world for your birthday. did you even say 'thank you?'

you thoughtless bastard, you break my heart.

thanks for last night,
mr. j