A Day of Broken Things

Yesterday, everything decided to break. In the morning Comcast came out to the house to fix the internet that wasn't working right, and in the process managed to ruin our tv reception. He said something about how we were getting a tv signal and asked if we were paying for it, I said no, we have an antenna, so he disconnected whatever he thought he was supposed to disconnect so that we weren't getting 'free' comcast tv anymore. Well, turns out he disconnected our antenna, so we no longer had the free tv that we were supposed to be getting.

Our computer got a fairly severe virus a few months ago and never fully recovered. It does random things, and most notably shuts down whenever we run a particular program. So over the weekend we wiped the hard-drive and reinstalled everything. It still shuts down when we run that program, so we called customer support and they said to make sure all of the drivers were up to date.....which they are. So we're still fighting that.

Around 6 Zander was upstairs (working on the computer problems) and noticed that the thermostat said that it was 78, which is bad because it's set to turn the AC on at 75. So we pushed a bunch of buttons on the thermostat, and it still wasn't getting the AC to start running. So Zander went down into the utility room and fiddled around with things (probably kicked a few things) and got it to start running again.

Like I said, it was a day of broken things...