Time Warner came to my apartment to finally install my cable and internet this morning at 9:45 -- my appointment was at 10. Great!, I thought. I can get this over with, sleep for a couple hours and have the rest of my day to do whatever I need to do to finish settling in.

Not the case. I was napping with Project Runway on in the background and all of a sudden the cable box decides to reboot itself. I didn't think it was a big deal and let it do its thing, hoping that this would be the only time it happened.

Unfortunately, the damn thing decides to reboot every half hour on the half hour until around 1:30, when it refuses to even connect at all, and now the box is pretty much dead and won't even switch on.

I called Time Warner at 1:45 to tell them about the problem, and basically demanded that they send a tech over today since the box was LESS THAN TWO HOURS OLD when it conked out. It's 6:10 and I'm still waiting for a tech to show up.

So much for being productive today. I can't even go take a shower now, in case the tech shows up. At least my internet is working okay this time around.